Details of Sculptor

Surname

Ashton

Alternative Surname

First Name

Thomas

Initial of Surname

A

Year of Birth/Baptism

Flourished

1815-35

Year of Death

Biographical Details

He was the son of Henry Ashton. He was trained by his father and in 1815 inherited the shop, yard, and business at 9 Swallow Street, Piccadilly. In 1819 he was paid small sums for sundry work at the Earl of Ashburnham’s London house in Dover Street. He advertised monuments in June 1819 from Swallow Street, but in 1825 referred to his ‘Marble Works’ at 31 Marylebone Street, near the Haymarket, Piccadilly (Morning Chronicle 22 June 1819, and 8 September 1825). At his own direction his stock-in-trade, including ‘ornamental, sculptured, figure, and plain marble monuments and entablatures, handsome statuary, dove, black and gold, birdilla, and black and veined marble chimneypieces’ was auctioned in April 1831 (Times 21 April 1838, p8)
Archival References: Ashburnham abstract of bills 1819, no 7; Will of Henry Ashton, PROB 11/1567, ff5-6; inf Jon Bayliss