Frederick William Pomeroy

Frederick William Pomeroy RA (1856–1924) was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works.

He was born in London, the son of an artist-craftsman. He trained with William Silver Frith at the South London Technical School of Art (Formerly Lambeth School of Art and now the City and Guilds of London Art School[1]), where he was also taught by Jules Dalou. In 1880, he was able to enter the Royal Academy Schools, where he won a travelling scholarship which took him to Paris and Italy. He was elected ARA in 1906, and RA in 1917.

Pomeroy was one of the so-called New Sculptors identified by Edmund Gosse in 1894. The New Sculptors were distinguished by a stylistic turn towards naturalism and their work in architectural sculpture.
Pottery on Vauxhall Bridge

Pomeroy's largest outdoor works are the four enormous bronze figures on the upstream side of Vauxhall Bridge in London. Dating from 1907, they represent: Pottery, Engineering, Architecture and Agriculture. Pomeroy's other architectural sculpture includes:

* Sheffield Town Hall
* the figures of Truth, Fortitude and the Recording Angel at the Old Bailey, and the finial figure of Justice
* City Hall, Cardiff, Wales
* Paisley Town Hall, Scotland
* the pediment of Belfast City Hall
* Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London
* extensive work at Liverpool John Moores University

Smaller works include:

* statue of the 16th Earl of Derby in the Concert Hall of St George's Hall, Liverpool[2]
* statue of the Reverend Dr Thomas Guthrie DD in West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

Notes

1. ^ City and Guilds of London Art School website
2. ^ Sharples, Joseph; Pollard, Richard. Liverpool. In Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006). The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. pp. 296. ISBN 0 300 10910 5.

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