OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19953, 23 May 1928, Page 12

OBITUARY.

SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON. Australian Press Associatioh—United Service LONDON. May 21. Sir George Frampton, the famous sculptor, died in London to-day, aged 68. His work includes the Nurse Cavell Memorial in Trafalgar Square and the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens. Much of his early repute was gained for statues of Queen Victoria. He also executed the e-tatues of Qu&en Mary that are in Calcutta and Delhi. Sir George Frampton, the scuptor, was born in 1860, and was trained at the Lambeth and Royal Academy Schools, and under Mercie in Paris. He was a xerv versatile artist, and did much to direct tho new movement in sculpture. His early works included "Socrates Teaching" (1884), "The Songster," "An Act of Mercy," "The Angel of Death," "Caprice" and "The Children of the Wolf." He forsook "white sculpture" find devoted himself to colour, his first jessavs in this medium being "Mysteriarch" and 'Mother and Child." The half-length "Lamia," with ivory face, ]>t ; ad, and neck and a quaint head-dress of jewelled bronze, was a striking success. 3fis statues of Dame Alice Owen and King Edward VII. were carried out in pseudo-medieval style. Frampton's bent was strongly decorative, and he sought to escape from purelv architectural forms, introducing instead his own inventions of curving lines, and frequently substituting for columns and pilasters tree-forms with roots for bases, trunks for pillars, and foliage for capitals. His fancy expressed itself in such works as the bronze •''Steamship" and "Sailing Ship" for Lloyd's Register in London, and the monument to Charles Mitchell at Newcastle. His other works include statues or busts of Charles Keene, Leigh Hunt, Passmore Edwards and Dr. Garnett, "The Vision." the seven heroines from the "Morte d'Arthur." "My Thoughts are !My Children." "Music" aiid "Dancing," the group "Maternity," a colossal statue c>f Queen Victoria for Calcutta and another for Leeds, statues of Queen Mary tor Calcutta and Delhi, busts of Her Majesty and King George for the London Guildhall, the sculptures on the Glasgow Art Galleries, on the exterior of Lloyd's Register, Electra House, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the naints on the shrine of William of Wykeham, Winchester, and on the spire of St. Mary's. Oxford, and the lions in front of the British Museum extension. He also designed a number of beautiful medals, including the Coronation medal. Elected A.R.A. in 1894 and R.A. in 1902. ho was J<nighted in 1908 and received many honours both at home and abroad.