Into the Silent Land by Henry Pegram, Golders Green Crematorium

Henry Alfred Pegram - Nymphe et monstre marin

Henry Alfred Pegram (27 July 1862 – 26 March 1937) was a British

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and exponent of the

New Sculpture New Sculpture was a movement in late 19th-century British sculpture with an emphasis on naturalistic poses and spiritual subjects. The movement was characterised by the production of free-standing statues and statuettes of 'ideal' figures from poe ...

movement.Chamot, M.; Farr, D.; Butlin, M.:
The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
'' London 1964.

Life

Pegram was born in

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and received his first artistic education at the West London School of Art. Already in 1881 and in 1883 he won prizes at the National Art Competitions. In 1881, he entered the

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schools, where he again won prizes in 1882, 1884, and 1886. In 1887 he left the school and worked until 1891 as assistant to

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. He became a member of the Art Workers' Guild in 1890, an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1904 and finally a Royal Academician in 1922. From 1890, Pegram was commissioned for numerous building decorations and statues. In 1913, he was one of the ten sculptors selected to work on the city hall of

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, for which he sculpted the figure of

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.Quinlan, M.:
Henry Alfred Pegram
''. URL last accessed 2008-08-22. Pegram was a cousin to the Brocks of Cambridge, a family with four brothers who worked as painters and illustrators in a large studio at their family home in Cambridge. His eldest daughter, Doris Joan Pegram (12 June 18861 November 1979), married one of the brothers, the artist and illustrator

H. M. Brock Henry Matthew Brock (11 July 187521 July 1960) was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was one of four artist brothers, all of them illustrators, who worked together in their family ...

(11 July 187521 July 1960) on 7 September 1912. The illustrator Fred Pegram (19 December 187023 August 1937), and his brother, the sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram (17 January 187314 January 1941) were first cousins to both Henry Alfred and the Brocks. Henry Alfred Pegram died of a cerebral haemorrhage, on 26 March 1937 in his home, 72 Belsize Park Gardens, Belsize Park,

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, London.

Prizes

*Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 (for ''Death Liberating a Prisoner'')Wengraf, P.:
Henry Alfred Pegram
'. URL last accessed 2008-08-22. *Gold medal at Dresden, 1897 (for ''The Last Song'') *Silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900 (for a life-size plaster cast of ''Sibylla Fatidica'', a marble version was presented in 1904 to the

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Selected works

*''Industry and Britannica'', entrance of the Imperial Institute, London. (1891–1892)Lawson, G.:
Pegram, Henry Alfred
', version of 2008-08-13. URL last accessed 2008-08-22. *''Ignis Fatuus'' or ''Misleading Light'' (1889). *''The Last Song'' (1897). *Bronze candelabra in St. Paul's, London (1897). *''Sibylla Fatidica'' (1900–1904). *''Monument to Ninon Michaelis at Kensal Green Cemetery'' (approx 1901). *Reliefs at St Paul's Girls' School, Brook Green. (1903)Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group:
St Paul's Girls' School
'. URL last accessed 2008-08-22. *"The Bather" friezes at Buckingham Gate no. 20,

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, London (now the High Commission of Eswatini). *Statue of

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(1905). *''Into the Silent Land'' (1905). Gifted to Golders Green Crematorium by the Royal Society of Arts in 1937 *''By the Waters of Babylon'' (1906). *Statue of Sir

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(unveiled 24 May 1906).
Unveiling the Campbell Statue
' Hawera & Normanby Star, May 25, 1906. URL last accessed 2008-08-22. *Stone frieze at the

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building of the Birmingham University (1907).Royal Institute of Architects:
Item RIBA20226
'. URL last accessed 2008-08-22. *Statue of

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(1910). * Oriel College, Oxford, Rhodes Building, group of seven statues including Rhodes,

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and

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(1911) *''Nereus and Galatea'' (1911). *''Chance'' (1913). *Figure of

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. *'' Ophelia and the River Gods'' (1914). * Edith Cavell monument in

(1917).Cocke, R.; Cocke, S.:
Public sculpture in central Norwich
'', The Norwich Society, 2007. URL last accessed 2008-08-22. *''Victory'' on the War memorial at Cunard building,

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. *''Hylas'' (1922), installed in 1933 in the Rose garden,

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, London. * Preston Cenotaph in Market Square,

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(1926). *Statue of Sir Robert Hart in

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References

External links

*
Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
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