Henry Richard Hope-Pinker

Henry Richard Hope-Pinker (1850 – 3 August 1927) was a British sculptor, notable for his portraits and statues of contemporary Victorian figures.

Biography

Hope-Pinker was born in Peckham in southeast London. His father was a builder and master mason, based in Hove, where Hope-Pinker received some training in stone carving before entering the Royal Academy Schools in London.^[1] Working in London, Hope-Pinker became a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was a specialist in portrait busts of high-profile contemporary figures.^[2] He carved several statues, including one of Charles Darwin, for the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.^[3] His bust of Henry Fawcett is in the National Portrait Gallery in London, which also hold two of his other works.^[2]^[4] Hope-Pinker became a member of the Art Workers' Guild in 1885, and was elected as Master in 1915.^[5]

Bust of George Rolleston, 1856, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Statue of Queen Victoria, 1894, Georgetown, Guyana^[6]
Statues of Charles Darwin, John Hunter, Thomas Sydenham and Roger Bacon, Oxford University Museum of Natural History^[3]
Statue of Henry Fawcett, Market Place, Salisbury^[1]
Statue of William Edward Forster, 1890, Victoria Embankment Gardens, London^[7]
Bust of Joseph Prestwich, c. 1901, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Bust of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Bust of John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1907 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Several busts and statuettes of James Martineau^[8]
Terracotta medallion of Robert Henry Soden Smith, 1884, Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[9]

1 2 University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Henry Richard Hope-Pinker". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
1 2 James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553.
1 2 "HR Pinker". Courtauld Institute of Art. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
↑ "Henry Richard Hope-Pinker". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
↑ "Henry Richard Hope-Pinker (1850–1927)". PSSA. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
↑ "Hew Locke challenges Empire in Birmingham". Hyperallergic. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
↑ Historic England. "Statue of William Edward Forster (1066178)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
↑ "James Martineau". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
↑ "Robert Henry Soden Smith MA (1822-1890)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2023.