FREDERICK WILLIAM POMEROY (BRITISH 1856-1924)
WOMAN WITH A SNAKE AND LILIES
£4,536
Auction: 15 JANUARY 2025 FROM 10:00 GMT
Description
bronze, greenish brown patina, signed with initials F.W.P. and dated 1914, on a green marble socle and square base, partial gallery label underneath, *HICKSEE & CO.
Dimensions
Figure 49cm high, 56cm high overall
Footnote
Note: 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 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.