Frederick William Pomeroy was born in Lambeth on 9 October 1856. He studied at Lambeth School of Art and, from 1881 to 1885, at the Royal Academy Schools in London where he won both a gold medal and a travel scholarship.
After travelling in France and Italy, he returned to London and embarked on a career as a sculptor, metalworker, medallist and a stone-carver. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London from 1885 to (posthumously) 1925.
Pomeroy was a prominent figure in the major revival of sculpture that took place in England from the 1870s onwards. The New Sculpture, as it was called, was particularly notable for a renewed interest in the techniques of bronze casting, coinciding with a rise in popular taste for Italian Renaissance bronzes.
