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]

Selected works

• Bust of George Rolleston, 1856, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
• Statue of Queen Victoria, 1894, Georgetown, Guyana^[5]
• 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^[6]
• 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^[7]
• Terracotta medallion of Robert Henry Soden Smith, 1884, Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[8]