British picture framemakers, 1750-1950

A selective directory, to be revised and expanded annually. 1st edition November 2007. Contributions are welcome, to Jacob Simon at jsimon@npg.org.uk. Cross-references to other makers are indicated by adding '(qv)' after the relevant name. Bibliography and resources

E.J. Uppard, 15 Fitzroy St, London W 1906-1925. Carver and gilder.

Edwin John Uppard (b.1857) was recorded in the 1881 census as a carpenter, age 23, living with his father, Oliver, at 20 Sussex Mews, London. He joined William Augustine Smith (qv), becoming a partner in the business of Smith & Uppard at 77 Mortimer St from 1889 until 1898, when the business was acquired by James Bourlet & Sons (qv). By 1906, he was trading under his own name. G.F. Watts's Three Heads (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) bears Uppard's label, with the date 1906 (Simon 1996 p.173, no.80, n.2), as does Dante Gabriel Rossetti's La Pia de' Tolomei, 1868-80, presumably a repair or reframing (Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; see Ira Horowitz, 'The Picture Frame, 1848-1892: The Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler, Paris', unpublished thesis, Queen's College (CUNY), 1974, p.82).

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