James Astbury Hammersley
Died 11 March 1867
Active: 1815 - 1867
Country of birth and death: England
Modeller, teacher, painter
Studied or taught at the Government School of Design in Nottingham in the mid-late 1840s and exhibited twice at the Royal Academy in 1846 and 1848. Hammersely was elected as an associate member of the Royal Manchester Institution in 1850 in thanks for the gift of a painting to the society. He became head of Manchester School of Design and then President of the Manchester School of Fine Arts c.1857-61. He died in Manchester in 1867.
Wealth at death: £100 0s. 0d.
£800 resworn probate, December 1867
Probate date: 18 April 1867
Locations
Address 163 Hermann Terrace Bury New Road Manchester | View on map
1867
Living here at the time of his death
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1844 (Circa) - 1845 (Circa)
Hammersley either employed at Etruria or modelled designs for Wedgwood during this period: see Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), 182.
See also a photograph of two Portrait Medallions of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Jasper, which are recorded as being originally modelled by Hammersley in 1844 {reference no. MED133].
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
'Artist'
Sources
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: James Astbury Hammersley
Probate Date: 18 Apr 1867
Death Date: 11 Mar 1867
Death Place: Lancaster, England
Registry: Manchester
The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 182.
The Manchester Times
Manchester Times (Manchester, England), Saturday, November 9, 1850; Issue 211 (accessed 24 October 2010)
The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See a photograph of two Portrait Medallions of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in Jasper, originally modelled by Hammersley in 1844 {reference no. MED133].
Citing this record
'James Astbury Hammersley', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1237545237, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
