A Group of Medals Associated with the Artist Sir George Frampton
Sir George James Frampton, RA (1860 - 1928)
Born in St John’s Wood, London, sculptor and craftsman, trained at the Lambeth School of Art under W.S. Frith and studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 to 1887, in the latter year winning the Academy’s Gold Medal and £200. Between 1888 and 1890 he studied under Antonin Mercié in Paris and subsequently was one of the principal figures in the arts and crafts movement in England. During his lengthy career he was elected A.R.A. in 1894 and R.A. in 1902, was knighted in 1908 and served as president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, 1911-12. Among his many statues in England and throughout the world are several memorials of Victoria and the lions at the entrance to the exterior of the British Museum.
For other medals by Frampton not represented here, see lots 1212 and 1388
Collection Information
This collection was sold on 15 December 2005.
Other Collections Sold in 2005
- The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris
- The Brian Ritchie Collection of H.E.I.C. and British India Medals
- The Collection of Medals formed by the late Alan Wolfe
- Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee
- The Tony Abramson Collection of Celtic Coins
- The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials
- The Prestbury Civil War Hoard, 2004
- The Collection of 17th Century Tokens of Kent formed by the late Robert Hogarth
- The Tony Abramson Collection of Henry VI Groats
- British Coins from the Collection of Michael Sherman
- The Collection of Irish Coins formed by the late Peter Coles
- Hammered Silver Crowns from the Warwick Collection
- The Tood Collection of British Milled Sovereigns
- A Group of Bradbury Wilinson Colour Trials
- A Group of Medals Associated with the Artist Sir George Frampton
- A Collection of Karl Goetz Medals
- Staffordshire 17th Century Tokens from the Geoffrey Kay Collection
- Victorian Sovereigns Collected by Die Number, the Property of a Gentleman
- The Holme (Lincolnshire) Hoard of Roman Silver Denari
- Unofficial Farthings from the Geoffrey Kay Collection
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