Edmund Cotterill
Born 25 September 1794
Died 1860
Active: 1809 - 1858
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, modeller, designer
Born in London. He was the son of Edmund Cotterill (1774-1815), spectacle maker who was awarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1807. Studied at the Royal Academy from 1820. From 1833 he was the head of the design studio which produced models for Robert Garrard, the royal goldsmiths.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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The encounter between Robert the Bruce and Sir Henry de Bohun, at the battle of Bannockburn
Locations
Address 25 Haymarket London | View on map
1839 - 1858
Main address for this period though also at 2 Golden Square in 1846
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1822 - 1858
Exhibited 4 times from 1851 (15 times prior to that), usually one or two works per year, about 28 works in all
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 315-6
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
2004
Class: HO107; Piece: 730; Book: 2; Civil Parish: St Anne Soho; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 3; Folio: 19; Page: 30; Line: 2; GSU roll: 438833
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Edmund Cotterill
Registration Year: 1860
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district: St James Westminster
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 294
London, England, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1538-1812
2010
London Metropolitan Archives, St James, Clerkenwell, Register of baptisms, Jan 1785-Dec 1812, P76/JS1/011
London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925
2010
London Metropolitan Archive; Reference Number: COL/CHD/FR/02/1322-1326
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
Citing this record
'Edmund Cotterill', 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=msib7_1218128781, accessed 30 Mar 2023]
