(Henry Charles) Innes Fripp

Born 1867
Died 13 January 1963

Active: 1892 - 1946

Country of birth and death: England

Assistant headmaster, painter, stained glass artist

Born in Clifton, Bristol. Son of Samuel Charles Fripp (1812-82), architect and sculptor. Innes studied at Bristol School of Art, the National Art Training School (Royal College of Art) and in Paris. He was an assistant master at the National Art Training School (1892-5) and taught drawing and painting at Lambeth School of Art (South London Technical Art School) (1894-c.1930). Fripp was also a drawing master at Queen’s College, Harley Street (the girl's school founded in 1848 by F.D. Maurice). He illustrated 'Human anatomy for art students' by his cousin, the eminent surgeon, Sir Alfred Downing Fripp (1865-1930). Between 1893-1946 Fripp exhibited 19 times at the Royal Academy of Arts. He died in London.

In the 1920s Innes designed a plaque for the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers (AOFB) - a charity set up by Albert Temple at the suggestion of Sir Alfred Downing Fripp. The charity flourished in the second half of the 1920s and raised considerable sums of money for the Invalid Children's Aid Association, which was distributed by Sir Alfred and his wife. The plaques, measuring about 30 x 18cms, show a baby in swaddling clothes standing in a niche. They were accompanied by donations of £500 from the AOFB to fund the annual running costs of a child's hospital bed. Some fifty were endowed, including cots in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Sheffield, Northampton and Leicester.

This entry contains information supplied by Dave Bridgen and David Woodhead. There are further details about Fripp's career at http://www.beanweb.net/ft/frippuk/pafg08.htm#121 and about the charity, the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, at http://frothblowers.co.uk/aofbhist.htm (accessed 1 August 2012).

Wealth at death: £3,509 10s. 0d.
Probate date: 10 May 1963

Citing this record

'(Henry Charles) Innes Fripp', 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_1245239565, accessed 21 Nov 2018]