Introduction
Henry Hampton (31 August 1862 – 11 February 1929) was a sculptor, creator of public memorials and artist who was active between 1888 and 1927.
Life
Henry Hampton was born at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, and died in Great Bardfield, Essex in 1929. After education at Bishop's Stortford College, he studied art at the Cardiff School of Art, the Lambeth, the Westminster, the Slade and then the Académies Julien and Colarossi in Paris. His legacy was a collection of public memorials across the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
Works
The Queen Victoria Monument in Lancaster, displays a sculpture of the queen guarded by 4 monumental lions, beneath them are four allegories to freedom, wisdom, truth and justice complete with a generous collection of putti; and four bas-relief friezes of fifty-three eminent Victorians, two of whom were women.
- Queen Victoria Monument, Dalton Square, Lancaster, England.
- Ashton Memorial in Williamson Park, Lancaster
- Statue of the Duke of Devonshire, Whitehall, London
- Queen Victoria, (1805) Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand.
- Henry Austin Bruce, Lord Aberdare, (1899), New Promenade, Aberystwyth, Wales
- Henry Austin Bruce, Lord Aberdare, (1899), Alexandra Gardens, Cardiff, Wales
Sources
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Lancashire: North: the buildings of England. Yale University Press. p. 381.
- Glasgow, University of. "'Herbert Hampton', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011". Retrieved 21 Oct 2014.