Aristide Luigi Fabbrucci
Born 1859 (Circa)
Died 1921
Active: 1880 - 1903
Country of birth and death: Italy
Sculptor
Born in Florence, Italy. He was the landlord of James McNeill Whistler at 454a Fulham Road from 1884-5. Fabrucci contributed a number of figure sculptures to the architect, Frederick Pepys Cockerell's gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours. They also collaborated on at least two works which the sculptor exhibited at the Royal Academy after Cockerell's death.
Locations
Address 14A Hollywood Road Kensington London | View on map
1880 (Circa) - 1882 (Circa)
Address 454A Fulham Road London | View on map
1883 (Circa) - 1903 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1880 - 1903
Exhibited 6 times, nine works in all (portrait busts, ideal groups and a model for a memorial tablet)
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fourteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1884
1884
First Love (cat. no. 2266, terracotta group, £60).
Institutional and Business Connections
Partner in Fabbrucci and McCrossan
1900 (Circa)
The duration of the partnership is not known
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Frederick Pepys Cockerell
Cockerell's gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours included many examples of figure sculptures by Fabbrucci. The architect and sculptor also collaborated on several works, which Fabbrucci exhibited at the Royal Academy after Cockerell's death in 1878. These were: "Our ancient word of Courage, Fair St. George.", exhibited in 1882, cat. no. 1624 (the same year Fabbrucci showed 'Miss Frederica Cockerell', cat. no. 1691) and a 'Model of a memorial tablet erected in Haslemere Church', exhibited in 1903, cat. no. 1697.
Daughter/son/child of Louis or Luigi Fabbrucci
Partner to Peter Russell McCrossan
1900 (Circa)
The duration of the partnership is not known
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist Sculptor' working on own account
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Student'
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 72; Folio: 41; Page: 30; GSU roll: 1341016
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 66; Folio: 20; Page: 34
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Arestide Fabbrucci Death Registration Month/Year: 1921 Age at death (estimated): 63 Registration district: Fulham Inferred County: London Volume: 1a Page: 338
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1884 Walker Art Gallery
1884
p. 132.
The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903 including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Fabb_L&firstname=&surname=fabbrucci (accessed 25 July 2010)
Citing this record
'Aristide Luigi Fabbrucci', 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_1278579828, accessed 30 Mar 2023]
