Introduction
According to the Mapping Sculpture website, Frith, a sculptor and wood carver like his father Henry, was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, and studied at the South London Technical School of Art, the Lambeth School of Art, and later at the Royal Academy Schools. A member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (1904-1924(, he was elected fellow the year before his death. He also belonged to the Art Workers Guild (1886-1924) where he gave talks on monumental wood sculpture, Guild), the Influence of mathematics on sculpture, and stone-carving. Although the Mapping Sculpture entry on Frith does not mention it, the one on Wenlock Rollins states that he “studied at the South London Technical School under William Silver Frith,” so he must have taught there during his career.
Works
- John Thorpe
- Grinling Gibbons
- Astor House Lamp Standards
- Statues on Metropolitan Life Assurance building
- Rahere
- St. Batholemew (on North wall, stone)
- St. Bartholomew (on gatehouse, oak)
- War Memorial with Crucifix
- Spandrel sculpture on Arch over King Charles Street (I): Justice, History, Geography, Science and Technology, Government (or Law) , and Shipping and Navigation
- Spandrel sculpture on Arch over King Charles Street (II): Government, History, Geography, Science, Industry, and Justuice
- Bishop Eliot Memorial
Bibliography
Academy Architecture and Architectural Review. Ed. Alexander Koch. London: Academy Architecture, 1904-1908. Internet Archive copy from University of California Libraries.
Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
“John Wenlock Rollins.” Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Web. 18 May 2011.
Last modified 19 August 2011