Professor Frederick Pepys Cockerell RIBA
Born March 1833
Died 4 November 1878
Active: 1848 - 1878
Country of birth: England
Country of death: France
Architect, designer of sculptural schemes
Born at 87 Eaton Square, London. Died suddenly at 66 rue François, Paris. He was the second son of Charles Robert Cockerell (1788–1863), architect. Frederick shared his father's belief in the centrality of sculpture to architecture and this is reflected in many of his most important buildings, such as the Freemasons' Hall (1861). His younger brother was the painter and sculptor, Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844-1905). Frederick's gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours included many examples of figure sculptures by Aristide Fabbrucci, a Florentine sculptor settled in Chelsea. They also collaborated on a number of works which Fabrucci exhibited after Cockerell's death at the Royal Academy.
Works
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Designed Sculpture Scheme in the Pediment of St George's Hall, Liverpool
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with William Grinsell Nicholl
Collaborated with Aristide Luigi Fabbrucci
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.
Sister/sibling of Samuel Pepys Cockerell
Frederick was the older brother of Samuel
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
David Watkin, ‘Cockerell, Frederick Pepys (1833–1878)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5782, accessed 20 Aug 2010]
The Builder, Vol. XIII, No. 632, 17 March 1855
17 March 1855
pp. 126, 127
Citing this record
'Professor Frederick Pepys Cockerell RIBA', 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=msib5_1246023238, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
