Robert Frederick Abraham

Location and period of operation:

China and Earthenware manufacturer 34 Victoria Street (Now Cardwell Street), Northwood, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.

It appears certain that the census record below is the same person; and that by 1871 F R Abraham was an art director (at Copeland in Stoke)

Abraham, Robert Frederick (born 1827 died 1895) Ceramic decorator. Studied art in Paris and Antwerp and said to have been a follower of Etty: worked for Mr Rose at Coalport and at the Hill Pottery, Burslem, as a decorator. In 1864 he was described as a china manufacturer, Northwood, Hanley. Later he became decorating manager and art director of Copelands, Stoke-on-Trent. Abraham painted portraits and historical subjects in oil, and exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution between 1846 and 1853. He died 24 September 1895. His son Robert John Abraham (born c. 1850 died c. 1925) modelled architectural faience for Copelands. Another member of the family, Francis Xavier Abraham (born 1861 died 1933) was a designer at S. Hancock & Sons. [Information per Miss Abraham; L. Jewitt, Ceramic Art of Great Britain, 1878.] from: Concise Encyclopaedia of English Pottery & Porcelain

 

NOTE: only the census details for R F Abraham are included here, the rest of his family was with him...

1861 census:

Dwelling: [unclear]
Census Place: Madeley, Staffordshire,  England

Madeley: An English Rural Village in Staffordshire, bordering Cheshire and Shropshire

1871 census:

Dwelling: 5 Brook Street
Census Place: Penkhull, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire,  England

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