Details of Sculptor

Surname

Coffee

Alternative Surname

First Name

H, of Derby and London

Initial of Surname

C

Year of Birth/Baptism

1795

Flourished

Year of Death

Biographical Details

He was born in Lambeth on 14 May 1795 and was probably a son of William Coffee. A sculptor, modeller and designer of this name exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1819 to 1845 from a number of addresses in Westminster, changing location every few years until 1842 when he was at 6 Oxford Market, Oxford Street. In 1839 his Boy and Foliage, perhaps a tablet for a chimneypiece (7) was praised by the Literary Gazette who considered the sculptor had shown ‘judgment and taste in his combinations; for it may be observed that nothing can be more suitable to the modulating lines of foliage than the easy flow of infantile forms’ (Lit Gaz 1839, 379). His last exhibited work, Death of a Boar, was later executed in silver (18). Coffee applied to join the Artists’ Annuity Fund in 1839. He was elected in the following year. He was still alive in 1863.
Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 109
Archival References: AAF, Proposals, 287