Details of Sculptor

Surname

Bromfield

Alternative Surname

First Name

Charles

Initial of Surname

B

Year of Birth/Baptism

1739 -

Flourished

Year of Death

Biographical Details

Charles Bromfield, an older brother of Benjamin Bromfield, worked as a marble mason in Liverpool. He was baptised on 6 October 1739 at Patshull, Staffs, where his father, Robert Bromfield, was probably employed in the rebuilding of Patshull Hall under Francis and William Smith of Warwick. He placed the following advertisement in an American newspaper: ‘Liverpool, 1770. Charles Bromfield, Begs leave to acquaint his Friends and the Public, That he is establish’d in the Marble Trade, on a very extensive Plan, having a Large and curious Assortment of all the different Kind that is produced in Italy, and the valuable Sorts of other Countries: any Gentlemen who are pleased to apply to him, at his Yard in Williamson’s Square, for any kind of manufactured Goods, may depend on having their Orders executed with the greatest Punctuality, in the neatest and cheapest Manner, having ready made a Variety of Chimney Pieces, Statues, Busts, Urns, Vases, Tables, Water Closet Cisterns, Mortars, &c. &c. He makes Monuments, Fonts and Tombs. N.B. He also will supply the Inland Manufacturers with Marble in the Block, on as good Terms as from any other Part of this Kingdom’ (The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, 5 February 1770, cited by Gottesman 1970, 228). He signs two monuments in Denbighshire.
Literary References: Gottesman 1970, 228
Archival References: Bromfield Affidavit; IGI