Background
He was born on 18 June 1860 in London to a stonemason.
He was born on 18 June 1860 in London to a stonemason.
He began his working life in an architect"s office before studying under William Silver Frith at the City and Guilds of London Art School (formerly Lambeth School of Art). From 1887 to 1890 Frampton undertook further study and work at the studio of Antonin Mercie in Paris. Frampton returned to England and took up a teaching position at the Slade School of Art in 1893 By this time, Frampton was, according to the critic M.H. Spielmann "in open rebellion against white sculpture".
In his statue of Dame Alice Owen (1895) he combined bronze and marble, and in Lamia contrasted an ivory head and neck with bronze clothing.
He made many busts and reliefs, mostly as memorials. His statues include a large bronze of Queen Victoria erected in Calcutta in 1901 and the Queen Victoria Statue in the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg in 1904.
Frampton"s first house and studio was at 32 Queen"s Grove (where a blue plaque to his name has been erected), but he later built a larger house nearby in Carlton Hill, both in Street John"s Wood, London. He died on 21 May 1928 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 25 May.
His ashes lie in a niche on the ground floor of the east wing of the Ernest George Columbarium.
He was an active member of The Art Workers" Guild and became Master in 1902.