Mrs J W Pauline Boumphrey
Other names: Pauline Firth, Pauline Firth Haworth
Born 1886
Died 25 January 1959
Active: 1927 - 1945
Country of birth and death: United States
Sculptor
Born in the USA. There are references online to works from 1908 by Boumphrey being sold at auction, so presume she was already professionally active by this date. She may have first become resident in the UK in 1927 (see reference from UK passenger lists below). A folder of information is held at the Smithsonian Institution http://www.siris.si.edu/ (Location: Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library)
Wealth at death: £4,733 11s. 6d.
Effects in England
Probate date: 7 July 1960
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Design for a Memorial to the Women and Children Killed by Enemy Action, 1939-1942
Battleship: Grand National Winner
The Stallion: Robin Goodfellow
The Top of the Hill: Lady Nuttall
From the Hills
1935 (Circa)
Herontyre
1935
£70
Earl Haig
1945
Windswept
1945
Locations
Address Daleford Sandiway | View on map
1930 (Circa) - 1937 (Circa)
Address 2 The Mall Studios Parkhill Road London | View on map
1934 (Circa) - 1937 (Circa)
Address The Old Vicarage Cholmondeley Malpas | View on map
1938 (Circa) - 1940 (Circa)
Address Urrad Killiecrankie | View on map
1945 (Circa)
Address 140 East 56th Street New York | View on map
1959
Resident at this address at the time of her death.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Eighty-Third Spring Exhibition, 1942
'Design for a Memorial to the Women and Children Killed by Enemy Action, 1939-1942'
Exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 80th Spring Exhibition, 1939
Multiple works
Exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 75th Spring Exhibition, 1934
'The Top of the Hill: Lady Nuttall'
Exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 76th Spring Exhibition, 1935
Multiple works
Exhibited at Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 79th Spring Exhibition, 1938
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Nineteenth, 1945
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1935
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1927 - 1937
Exhibited 7 times, between one and two works each time, all in bronze.
Sources
Catalogue of the 75th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1934
1934
Cat. No. 262, pp. 1, 41, 44
Catalogue of the 76th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1935
1935
Cat. No. 317, pp. 1, 49, 51
Catalogue of the 78th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1937
1937
pp. 3, 52
Catalogue of the 79th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1938
1938
Cat. Nos. 350, 358, 360, pp. 3, 51, 52, 54
Catalogue of the 80th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1939
1939
Cat. Nos. 339, 342, 343, pp. 1, 47, 48, 51
Catalogue of the 81st Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1940
1940
pp. 3, 50
Catalogue of the Eighty-Second Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1941
1941
p. 2
Catalogue of the Eighty-Third Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1942
1942
Cat. No. 246, p. 21
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Pauline Boumphrey
Probate Date: 7 Jul 1960
Death Date: 25 Jan 1959
Death Place: USA
Registry: London, England
UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
2008
Arrived at Southampton, England from New York, New York on the \'Majestic\' (the White Star Line). Class: BT26; Piece: 858; Item: 57 1927
Citing this record
'Mrs J W Pauline Boumphrey', 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=msib6_1203433455, accessed 28 Jan 2021]
