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34-606: Bowring Park may refer to: Bowring Park (St. John's) Bowring Park, Knowsley Bowring Park, Merseyside Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bowring Park . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bowring_Park&oldid=1040898583 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

68-582: A cousin of Sir Edgar Bowring. The Fighting Newfoundlander, a tribute to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment with Corporal Thomas Pittman as the subject, was also a gift from Sir Edgar Bowring. The statue was unveiled by Sir William Horwood in September 1922. The Peter Pan was erected in memory of Sir Edgar Bowring's godchild, Betty Munn , who had drowned along with her father at the sinking of Florizel at Cappahayden . The statue

102-577: A fee. During World War I Frampton used his position in various art societies and institutions to expel any German members he considered potential "enemy aliens". When the Art Workers Guild refused to expel Karl Krall, a British citizen born in Germany, Frampton resigned from the Guild. In 1915, Frampton was commissioned to create a public memorial to Edith Cavell . Having waived his fee for

136-653: A frieze in Portland stone of female figures representing Trade, Commerce and Shipping with four bronze statuettes at key points. Both commissions, but especially the Fenchurch Street frieze, were widely praised at the time. In April 1897, a public meeting in Calcutta (now Kolkata ) agreed to raise funds to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria and, eventually, commissioned Frampton to create

170-597: A larger house nearby in Carlton Hill, both in St John's Wood , London. He was married to the artist Christabel Cockerell and had one son, the painter and etcher Meredith Frampton . Frampton, like several of his contemporaries, referred to himself as an "art worker" rather than an artist or sculptor and championed the equality of artistic work with craft or decorative practices. He was an active member of The Art Workers' Guild and became Master in 1902. He sculpted

204-821: A number of war memorials. These included the Edith Cavell Memorial in London, which, along with the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens are possibly Frampton's best known works. Frampton was born on 18 June 1860 in London, where his father was a woodcarver and stonemason. George Frampton began his own working life as a stone carver in 1878, working on the Hôtel de Ville in Paris. Frampton returned to London to study under William Silver Frith at

238-661: A statue of the monarch. Photographs of Frampton's model for the statue were published in the July 1898 edition of The Studio . The accompanying text described a figure over twice life-size, seated under a canopy, wearing the robe of the Order of the Star of India , decorated in gold, ivory and lapis lazuli . A polychrome plaster version was displayed at the Glasgow Exhibition of 1901 and was greatly praised for its depiction of

272-665: A swimming pool and playground. There are a number of statues in the park, including two sculptures by Basil Gotto , one a Caribou and the other The Fighting Newfoundlander. The Caribou is a replica of the monument at the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park was originally part of the Newfoundland Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition and was presented to the park by Major William Howe Green ,

306-460: A wooden frame depicting a woman holding a lily surrounded by drapery under a second female figure holding an infant and two children in front of a symbol of a rising sun. The work appears to have had a special significance to Frampton as he frequently chose it to represent his work at other major international exhibitions and kept the piece in his possession throughout his life. The work passed to his son, Meredith Frampton , who eventually donated it to

340-518: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bowring Park (St. John%27s) The land that Bowring Park currently occupies was originally a farm owned by William Thorburn known as Rae Island. The land was purchased and donated to the city in 1911 by Sir Edgar Rennie Bowring on behalf of Bowring Brothers Ltd. on their 100th anniversary of commerce in Newfoundland. Frederick Todd created

374-548: The British Museum and the Edith Cavell Memorial that stands outside the National Portrait Gallery , London. Frampton's original statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens , London, was commissioned by J.M. Barrie in 1912. Barrie was said to be disappointed at Frampton's depiction of Peter Pan, in particular at his choice of model for the figure of the boy. However such was the popularity of

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408-698: The Henry Fawcett Memorial in London and a pair of terracotta figures representing Concord and Industry which were exhibited in Paris and purchased for the Municipal Building in Christchurch , New Zealand. From 1887 to 1890, he studied and worked at the studio of Antonin Mercie in Paris, where he also studied painting under Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret and Gustave Courtois . Frampton returned to England and, briefly, worked in

442-950: The South London Technical School of Art during 1880 and 1881. He went on to the Royal Academy Schools where, between 1881 and 1887, he won a gold medal and travelling scholarship. While still studying at the Royal Academy, Frampton undertook a number of sculpture commissions including, in 1885, pieces for the facade of both the Constitutional Club in Northumberland Avenue and for the Chelsea Conservative Club. He also created an altarpiece for Manchester Cathedral , some decorative pieces for

476-808: The Venice Biennale and at the Vienna Secession the following year. He regularly exhibited at the La Libre Esthétique in Brussels, a city he considered an important market for his work. For the four pieces he showed at the Paris International Exhibition in 1900, Frampton was awarded the Grand Prix. Those works included My Thoughts Are My Children , 1894, a large polychromic relief in bronze in

510-685: The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Recognition also brought Frampton two significant public commissions at this time. The architect John William Simpson appointed Frampton as master sculptor for the decoration of the facade of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. As well as overseeing the work of several other sculptors, Frampton created a bronze sculpture group and three sets of stone spandrels for

544-540: The Art Workers' Guild's Master's Jewel in silver representing 'Art is Unity'. Frampton became a royal academician in 1902 and was knighted in 1908. Frampton died on 21 May 1928 aged 67 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 25 May. His ashes lie in a niche on the ground floor of the east wing of the Ernest George Columbarium. A memorial sculpted by Ernest Gillick in 1930 depicting

578-587: The Queen. The statue was subsequently moved to a location in front of the Victoria Memorial , where it was sited on a large architectural podium. Lord Curzon , the driving force behind the Memorial project, came to dislike Frampton's depiction of an elderly and vulnerable Victoria and commissioned Thomas Brock to create a second statue, in marble, of a younger Queen to be placed in the central hall of

612-827: The architect's war memorials in the aftermath of the First World War, the Hove War Memorial in East Sussex and the Fordham War Memorial in Cambridgeshire, unveiled in February and August 1921 respectively. Both feature a bronze statue of Saint George, sculpted by Frampton atop a column designed by Lutyens. Frampton's first house and studio was at 32 Queen's Grove (where a blue plaque to his name has been erected), but he later built

646-518: The centre of a larger installation that he designed. In panels and niches around the statue, which he placed on a pink marble pedestal, Frampton included 16th-century carvings of Owen's ancestors and fragments of her 17th-century tomb. In 1896, Frampton exhibited, with the architect Charles Harrison Townsend , a large fireplace in American walnut at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society . The fireplace

680-588: The completed building. The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 led to Frampton receiving several commissions for memorials to the Queen. Frampton based several of these on his design of a seated figure he used for the Kolkata statue but with some variations. He used the same cast for the statues in Leeds and St Helens but changed the style of the decorative details and pedestals between them. A further version

714-404: The critic M.H. Spielmann "in open rebellion against white sculpture". In 1893, he showed Mysteriarch , a polychromatic plaster bust with Symbolism motifs at the Royal Academy and, two years later he showed another polychromatic work, Mother and Child at the same venue. Mother and Child has bronze figures, of Frampton's wife and son, set against a copper plaque, and a white enamel disc behind

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748-554: The design and Rudolph Cochius was the landscape architect for the original section of the park. The park was officially opened by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught on July 15, 1914. The park has expanded to incorporate some of the surrounding areas. The original tract of land was 50 acres (200,000 m ) on the east side of the park. In the 1970s the park acquired 150 acres (610,000 m ) of land that once belonged to Sir Richard Squires , known as Midstream. The boundary between

782-472: The elderly queen. The completed statue was shipped to India early in 1901 and erected on a temporary site in March 1902. Although the statue sent to India was considerably less ornate and lacked the canopy of the original proposal, Frampton's completed work included two putti in a New Sculpture style above the back of the throne plus two miniature infantrymen on the pedestal and a small figure of St George held by

816-525: The main entrance arch was allocated to Frampton who created spandrel figures of Truth and Beauty for the space while the remainder of the main entrance was assigned to Drury. A number of Frampton's works can be seen at the restored St James' Church, Warter in East Yorkshire. Frampton created Dr Barnardo's Memorial , in Barkingside , London, in 1908, a work he undertook without claiming

850-425: The mother's head. In his statue of Dame Alice Owen (1897) Frampton combined bronze, alabaster, gilding and marble, and, later, with the bust Lamia (1899-1900) he contrasted an ivory head and neck with bronze clothing inlaid with opals. The statue of Dame Alice Owen was originally shown at the Royal Academy as a free-standing statue but when it was installed in the entry hall of Owen's School Frampton made it

884-575: The north porch of the new building. The sculpture group, of St Mungo attended by the muses of Art and Music, in the central arch of the porch contains Symbolism style motifs featuring trees, bells and fishes similar to those Frampron had used in some of his earlier smaller pieces. Frampton's other commission was for a frieze on the facade of the Lloyd's Register building in Fenchurch Street in London. There, Frampton created, at first floor level,

918-456: The old and new sections of the park is the pedestrian footbridge near the swimming pool. The bridge design and planning for the new section was completed by the noted modernist architect, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel in collaboration with Arup Partners. She presented her designs at the 1959 CIAM congress in Otterlo , Netherlands. The park has many recreation facilities, including tennis courts,

952-520: The statue, six more casts were made which are now situated in: By March 1905, Aston Webb , the architect of the Cromwell Road extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum had commissioned over twenty sculptors to provide statues, carvings and decorations for the facade of the building. Webb allocated what he considered the two most important areas to Frampton and Alfred Drury . The area over

986-733: The studio of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm . He then took up a teaching post at the Slade School of Art in 1893 and was also, for a year, the joint head of the Central School of Arts and Crafts . In 1893, Frampton married the artist Christabel Cockerell and the couple set up home together at St John's Wood in London. Together they designed a decorative frieze for the interior of the house and Frampton began to design household fittings, jewellery in enamel and precious metals and also medals, most notably for Glasgow University and Winchester College . By this time, Frampton was, according to

1020-520: The work, Frampton's modernist style monument in marble and granite was unveiled to huge crowds near Trafalgar Square in central London during 1920. The severe, modern appearance of the memorial is distinct from Frampton's earlier, more heroic style of Boer War memorials and was criticised as such. Several contemporary sculptors also criticised the design and the engineering of the monument. Frampton subsequently worked with Sir Edwin Lutyens on two of

1054-528: Was a British sculptor. He was a leading member of the New Sculpture movement in his early career when he created sculptures with elements of Art Nouveau and Symbolism , often combining various materials such as marble and bronze in a single piece. While his later works were more traditional in style, Frampton had a prolific career in which he created many notable public monuments, including several statues of Queen Victoria and later, after World War I,

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1088-678: Was created for the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg in 1904. A different design of a much younger, standing Victoria was created for the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1906 and was unveiled by her son King Edward VII in the same year. Among Frampton's other notable public sculptures are the figures of Peter Pan playing a set of pipes, the lions at

1122-583: Was decorated with an innovative tree and foliage design by Frampton that was subsequently much imitated by Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts designers and became known as the "Frampton tree". Frampton used a similar design in his 1897 memorial to Charles Mitchell for St George's Church in Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Frampton's body of work in the 1880s brought him considerable recognition. The University of St Andrews awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1894. In 1897, examples of Frampton's work featured at

1156-542: Was unveiled on August 29, 1925 with the following inscription; In memory of a little girl who loved the Park. The building and erection of the statue was supervised by Sir George Frampton , the sculptor who created the original statue at Kensington Gardens , London . 47°31′22″N 52°45′14″W  /  47.52278°N 52.75389°W  / 47.52278; -52.75389 George Frampton Sir George James Frampton , RA (18 June 1860 – 21 May 1928)

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