Details of Sculptor

Surname

Foxhall

Alternative Surname

First Name

Edward

Initial of Surname

F

Year of Birth/Baptism

1755 or 6

Flourished

Year of Death

1815

Biographical Details

The son of Martin Foxhall, he was responsible for decorative carving at various houses designed and built by Sir John Soane. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1775. In 1783 he received £1,069 11s 1d for all the carved woodwork in Philip Yorke’s London house (3). Ten years later he was again employed by Yorke (now the Earl of Hardwicke) at Wimpole, Cambs (Soane, Wimpole Acct Bk 1791-94, fols 104, 105, 133). He worked at Malvern Hall under Soane for Sir Henry Lewis, 1785, in Grosvenor Square for the Marquess of Abercorn, 1787 (Soane, Abstract of Bills, I, fol 134), and in Pall Mall for Lady Louisa Manners, 1788 (Soane Abstract of Bills, 1, fol 152). He carved four Ionic capitals for the Marquess of Abercorn at Bentley Priory (7). When Foxhall inherited his father's shop in Cavendish Street in 1799, Soane designed a new shop front for the property.
Foxhall provided two chimneypieces and the state bed for William Beckford at Fonthill (2). He was paid £580 5s, c1807, for ‘Church Furniture’ at Dodington, Glos, then under construction by James Wyatt for Christopher Codrington (Codrington Archives in GPC).
Foxhall married Elizabeth Anne, the daughter of John Francis Moore, at St Mary, Marylebone Road, on 2 September 1790. At the time of his death on 29 October 1815 he lived in Orchard Street (GM, 1815, ii, 636). He is described in his will as an ‘Upholsterer of Saint Marylebone’. He was buried, aged 59, on 7 November that year at the parish church. His son Edward Martin Foxhall (1793-1862) was an architect and surveyor (see Colvin 1995, 380).

Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 156; Jervis 2005, 377-382
Archival References: GPC
Will: PROB 11/1575