Details of Sculptor

Surname

Lomas

Alternative Surname

First Name

John and Sons, of Bakewell

Initial of Surname

L

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

1827-81

Year of Death

Biographical Details

They were a firm of Derbyshire marble masons. A number of such local firms flourished from the early 19th century, when steam-powered mills were introduced and new veins of marbles were discovered. John Lomas and his sons operated the Bakewell Marble Works, which were owned by the Duke of Rutland, throughout most of the century. Local directories list John Lomas at Ashford in 1827-9 and in Bakewell in 1828-84; a directory of 1846 has ‘John Lomas and Son, Wye Mill, Bakewell’ and in an advertisement of 1881 they are described as ‘John Lomas & sons, manufacturers of chimneypieces, monuments, tables etc’ (Tomlinson 1996, 43). Lomas also worked the entrochial marble quarries at Monyash with Richard Brown and Sons in the 1830s and Lomas showed Derbyshire marble pedestals for busts and coloured marble chimneypieces at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (2, 3). The firm also produced standard white statuary marble memorial tablets.
Literary References: Glover 1831-3, 72; Penny 1977 (1), 9-10; Tomlinson 1996, 19, 43, 62, 65, 82