Alfred and Henry HOPKINS

View in collection The Hopkins Brothers were the third generation of a family of potters and the son of Alfred Hopkins (born c.1865 in Lambeth), a potter and pottery foreman at the Doulton Factory. Henry Loveday Hopkins worked as a potter's thrower and then as a pottery foreman between c.1901-11, Alfred George Hopkins (born c.1886 in Lambeth), was a plasterer for the pottery and then a studio potter and teacher who taught at at Camberwell School of Art. They were active from 1910 until 1936 initially working from 208 Lambeth Road and in the 1920s from the Old Lambeth Pottery, 149 Lower Kennington Lane SE1. They made art pottery plates and vases with underglaze decoration of birds, flowers, inscriptions and even during the First World War a topical design with a battleship. During the 1920s they worked  in stoneware and porcelain they turned to a more experimental approach with coloured and lustrous glaze effects particularly in salt-glaze. They also modelled animals and figures and marketed materials for other potters.

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• Dates: Alfred George 1884-1940, Henry (Harry) Loveday 1885-1951