Frederick Thrupp

Frederick was born on 20 June 1812, the youngest son of Joseph Thrupp of Paddington Green, London, by Mary Pillow (d. 1845), his second wife.

In 1829 he won a silver medal from the Society of Arts for a chalk drawing from a bust, and he was admitted to the antique school of the Royal Academy on 15 June 1830.

While at Rome he had the support of John Gibson, who admired his Ferdinand, modelled soon after his arrival in 1837, and found several private commissions for him.

Thrupp also made the acquaintance of Bertel Thorvaldsen, and formed friendships among the English colony of artists at Rome.

Another pair of doors, with bronze panels illustrating George Herbert's poems, were exhibited with other works by Thrupp, including sixty terra-cotta statuettes, a marble bust of Wordsworth, and some bas-reliefs, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and then accepted by Brooke Foss Westcott as a gift to the divinity school at Cambridge.

He also illustrated with lithographs the works The Ancient Mariner and The Prisoner of Chillon; and drew a series of views of Ilfracombe on the stone.

There were a large number in marble and plaster, with about 150 small studies in terra-cotta, and numerous drawings, which remained on his hands.

By the intervention of the dowager countess of Northesk, it was ultimately arranged with the mayor and corporation of Winchester that his works should find a home there.

The Thrupp gallery, in the ancient abbey buildings in the public garden adjoining the Guildhall, was inaugurated on 8 November 1894.

Thrupp bequeathed all his property, including his remaining works, to his wife, but in accordance with his wishes they were to be presented to the city of Winchester.

[4] Late in life, on 11 July 1885, Thrupp married Sarah Harriet Ann Frances, eldest daughter of John Thurgar of Norwich and Algiers, who survived him.