Humphrey Hopper
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Humphrey Hopper (1767–1844) was an English sculptor and stonemason. He was given the government commission for the memorial in St Paul's Cathedral to General Andrew Hay.[1]
He was born in Wolsingham in County Durham in 1765. He moved to London around 1800.[2]
Hopper studied in the Royal Academy Schools during his thirties, from 1801, already having exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1799. He gained the silver medal there in 1802 and the gold medal there in 1803, for an original group of The Death of Meleager.[1][3]
In 1807 Hay was a competitor for the Pitt and Nelson memorials in the London Guildhall.[3] He developed a line of plaster figures designed to hold lamps, working with architects who designed niches for them, such as Lewis Wyatt. He lived in the Marylebone area of London, settling in Wigmore Street.[1]
Hopper died on 27 May 1844 at 13 Wigmore Street, Marylebone.[1] He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
