Edgar George Papworth Jnr (25 June 1832 – 20 January 1927) was an English sculptor, who was popular in the later nineteenth century. Papworth was born in the

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district of London and came from a family long connected with stonework. His father was the sculptor Edgar George Papworth Senior (1809–66), and his grandfather Thomas Papworth (1773–1814), a

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ist. His mother, Caroline, was the daughter of the sculptor

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. Papworth, Junior showed more than fifty portrait busts at the

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between 1852 and 1882. In 1870, Papworth was chosen to make a statue of the Birmingham industrialist

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, but Mason vetoed the proposal, and Papworth was paid 150

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in compensation. Eventually, a statue of Mason was created posthumously, by

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. Papworth's work then fell out of fashion, and he was not mentioned in a list of English sculptors compiled in 1901. He died at

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, where he had lived since about 1911.

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