Sir George Frampton

George Frampton (18 June 1860 – 21 May 1928) was the youngest of the artists and craftsmen taking leading roles at Two Temple Place and had not worked with the Pearsons before. He was however William Silver Frith’s star pupil at the South London Technical School of Art. He would go on to be the most famous of the group, becoming an RA and a Knight. Particularly associated with the New Sculpture and its more naturalistic effects he would in the early Twentieth Century create masterpieces of symbolism as well as major public monuments like Edith Cavell outside St. Martin in the Fields and the Peter Pan sculpture in Kensington Gardens.

He was responsible for the Great Hall door with its panels showing the female characters of the Arthurian legends. The segmented door, following Renaissance Italian forms, seems to have been a WWA favourite, he used it for the New York memorial to his father (Finn 1996).