Henry Alfred Pegram was born at 72 King Street, Camden Town, London, England on 27 July 1862. He studied at the West London School of Art and from 1881 at the Royal Academy Schools in London. While a student he won book prizes in National Art Competitions in 1881 and 1883. He remained a student at the RA Schools until c.1889. and then worked as a studio assistant to the sculptor Hamo Thornycraft (1850-1925) Pegram first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1884 and apart from 1886 and 1888 exhibited every year until 1936. He also exhibited at the New Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers and Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London; and at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh; Leeds City Art Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Art; and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Notable among his works were works were the reliefs Industry and Britannia for the entrance to the Imperial Institute (1891–22); The Bather (1894); friezes at 20 Buckingham Gate, Westminster (1895), and at the United University Club, Suffolk Street (1906); a monument to Ninon, wife of Max Michaelis (1900); a relief A Sea Idyll (1902); Into the Silent Land (1905); a relief By the Waters of Babylon (1906); a group Nereus and Galatea (1911); a statuette Chance (1913); a group Ophelia and the River Gods (1914); a relief Mater Desolata (1920); a group Hylas (1922); and a group Lux mundi (1926).
He was elected an member of the member of the Art Workers Guild in 1890; a member of the Chelsea Arts Club in 1891; an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1904; a Royal Academician (RA) in 1922 and a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (RSBA) in 1905
His address was given a 186 Euston Road, London in 1884 and 1904; 36 Marlborough Hill, London in 1905 and 1907; St. John's Lodge, Harley Road, London in 1908 and 1935; and 72 Belsize Park Gardens, London where he died on 26 March 1937.
Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/
