Frederick Weekes (1834-1924) was an English painter and designer.
Son of the successful Victorian sculptor,
Henry Weekes
Henry Weekes (14 January 1807 – 28 May 1877) was an English sculptor, best known for his portraiture. He was among the most successful British sculptors of the mid- Victorian period.
Personal life
Weekes was born at Canterbury, Kent, to Capo ...
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two of his brothers also became artists, the genre and animal painters
Herbert William Weekes
Herbert William Weekes (8 May 1841 – 21 November 1914) was a well-known English Genre works#Genre painting, genre and animal painter of the Victorian era, Victorian Neoclassicism, Neoclassical period who specialized in portraying animals in hu ...
and Henry Weekes Junior.
He established a long partnership with the architect
William Burges
William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian era, Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution, ...
, working with him on many of his major commissions, including
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral
Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral () is a Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival three-spire Church of Ireland cathedral in Cork (city), Cork city, Ireland. It is located on the south bank of the River Lee and dedicated to Finbarr of Cork, patr ...
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Cardiff Castle
Cardiff Castle () is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic revival mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. The original motte and bailey castle was built in the late 11th century by Norman invaders on top of a 3rd-century Roma ...
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Castell Coch
; ) is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in Wales. The first castle on the site was built by the Normans after 1081 to protect the newly conquered town of Cardiff and control the route along the River ...
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the Yorkshire churches
and Burges's own home in London,
The Tower House
The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. Designed between 1875 and 1881, in the French Got ...
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19th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English painters
1833 births
1920 deaths
English designers
20th-century English male artists
19th-century English male artists