Frederick Thrupp

Frederick Thrupp (20 June 1812–21 March 1895) was an English sculptor.

Life

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. Joseph Thrupp from 1774 ran Thrupp & Maberly, a coach factory in George Street, Grosvenor Square. By his first wife, Mary Burgon, Joseph was father of Dorothy Ann Thrupp the hymn-writer, and of John Augustus Thrupp (1785–1814), the father of John Thrupp the historian; also of Charles Joseph Thrupp, the father of Admiral Arthur Thomas Thrupp.

Frederick Thrupp went to the Rev. William Greenlaw's school at Blackheath, where he remained till about 1828. He then joined the academy of Henry Sass in Bloomsbury, where he was a contemporary of John Callcott Horsley, a close friend. 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. He finally returned to London in October 1842, when he took a house at No. 232 Marylebone Road (then called the New Road), where he built a large gallery and studio. He let most of the house and lived at 15 Paddington Green (the house where he was born) till, on his mother's death in 1845, his two unmarried sisters joined him in the Marylebone Road. Here he lived for forty years. The works came back to Torquayand found a permanent home, at Torre Abbey there, in 1930–2.

Family 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. Joseph Francis Thrupp was his nephew.