Alfred Henry Wilkinson

Born 1884
Died 29 March 1958

Active: 1910 - 1940

Country of birth and death: England

Sculptor, wood carver, teacher

Born in Birmingham. Initially apprenticed as a wood carver, Wilkinson attended art school in Birmingham. Later he moved to London and studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, was a National Scholar at the National Art Training School (Royal College of Art) and then attended the Royal Academy Schools where he won several prizes and a scholarship.

Around 1921, Wilkinson won a competition to design the ceremonial staircase at London's County Hall. Although the commission was not carried out, Wilkinson was employed to execute the stone-carving in the entrance halls (Belvedere Road and Westminster Bridge Road) and the chimneypiece in the Members' Library, for which he was paid £670 (1921). He was was also commissioned to carry out wood-carving in the northern section of County Hall (c.1930). (See County Hall (1991), pp. 57-69)

Wealth at death: £467 19s. 5d.
Probate date: 25 April 1958

Citing this record

'Alfred Henry Wilkinson', 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_1262876853, accessed 24 May 2022]