Frederick Winter
Born 1849 (Circa)
Died 29 January 1924
Active: 1871 - 1924
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born and died in St. Pancras, London. He was a student of Joseph Edwards (1814-82). Frederick and a fellow pupil, Frederick Winter, were commissioned to make a memorial to their teacher for Highgate Cemetery.
This entry includes information from Sylvia Allen published in Roscoe (2009) and Peter Lord (2004).
Wealth at death: £263 12s. 7d.
Probate date: 31 March 1924
Locations
Address 63 College Place St Pancras London | View on map
1871 (Circa)
'Sculptor'
Address 64 College Place St Pancras London | View on map
1873 (Circa) - 1881 (Circa)
Address 40 Robert Street Hampstead Road London | View on map
1883 (Circa) - 1899 (Circa)
Address 13 Robert Street Hampstead Road London | View on map
1890 (Circa) - 1924
Described as 'The Studios, 13 Robert Street' in the Probate Calendar.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1873 - 1899
Exhibited 18 times, twenty-five works in all (medallions, figure groups and portrait busts many of them in terra cotta from about 1883)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the eleventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1881
1881
Little Rosebud (Ideal Bust) (cat. no. 1426, £31 10s.); Lily of the Valley (Ideal Bust) (cat. no. 1430, £31 10s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
The late Right Honorable. Sir R. N. Fowler, Bart., MP (cat. no. 1162, bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Miss Dorothea Baird (Mrs H. B. Irving) as 'Trilby' (cat. no. 1429, bronze bust, £21); J. Forbes Robertson, Esq., as 'Buckingham' (cat. no. 1431, bronze bust, £21).
Participant in Cousins Fund (Royal Academy of Arts), 1916
21 March 1916
Listed as a Cousins Fund Annuitant in 1916. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1916', 1917, p. 19.
Personal and Professional Connections
Pupil of Joseph Edwards
After Edwards' death in 1882 Winter and fellow student, Walter Merrett, were commissioned to make a memorial to their teacher for Highgate Cemetery.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1890 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1890
p.1997
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' working on own account at home
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 406-9
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third, 1893 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1893
pp. 42-45.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 232; Folio: 111; Page: 61; GSU roll: 824903
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 206; Folio: 90; Page: 36; GSU roll: 1341045
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 131 folio 67 page 44
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Frederick Winter
Birth Date: abt 1846
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1924
Age at Death: 78
Registration district: Pancras
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1b
Page: 9
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Frederick Winter
Probate Date: 31 Mar 1924
Death Date: 29 Jan 1924
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London, England
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1881 Walker Art Gallery
1881
pp. 81-82.
Post Office London Directory, 1890 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1890
p.1997
Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
Citing this record
'Frederick Winter', 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_1263238909, accessed 10 Jun 2023]