Alfred George Hopkins

Born 1884
Died 14 July 1940

Active: 1901 - 1939

Country of birth and death: England

Potter, teacher of pottery, plasterer in pottery

Born in Lambeth. He was the third generation of a family of potters and was the son of Alfred Hopkins (born c.1865 in Lambeth), a potter and pottery foreman probably at the Doulton Factory. His brother was the potter, Henry Loveday Hopkins (born c.1886 in Lambeth). Alfred George worked as a plasterer in the pottery between c.1901-11.

He established himself as a studio potter before 1915 and worked with his brother Henry Loveday as 'Hopkins Brothers' from 208 Lambeth Road and in the 1920s from the Old Lambeth Pottery, 149 Lower Kennington Lane. Their work was collected (c.1926-9) by Sydney K. Greenslade, curator of the Arts and Crafts Museum at the University of Aberystwyth (there are thirty-two items in the collection, reference below). The Hopkins Brothers also modelled animals and figures and marketed materials for other potters. Alfred's work was exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1927 and 1928. He also organised a show of his work at the Old Lambeth Pottery in 1929 which was compared favourably to pottery by William Staite Murray in a review in 'The Times' (23 November 1929). Around 1932 Alfred (and possibly his brother) relocated to Broadstairs, Kent and established the Stone Pottery. He died in Broadstairs, Kent.

This record includes information supplied by Jeremy Morgan. There are further details of works by Hopkins Brothers on the website of the University of Aberystwyth Ceramic Collection and Archive, see http://www.ceramics-aberystwyth.com/hopkins.html (accessed 11 May 2011)

Wealth at death: £231 0s. 6d.
Probate date: 7 May 1941

Citing this record

'Alfred George Hopkins', 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_1253806138, accessed 02 Jul 2022]