Maidie Buckingham

Florence Maidie Buckingham (known as Maidie Buckingham; 26 May 1901[1][2] – 4 June 1988)[3] was a British artist,[4] sculptor, and founding member of the Norwich Twenty Group.[5][6][7]

Life

Florence Maidie Buckingham was born in Norwich on 26 May 1901.[2] She was the daughter of Ernest H. Buckingham, F.R.I.B.A., and niece of painter Ethel Buckingham.[8] Like her aunt, she studied at the Norwich School of Art.[8]

Buckingham was well-known as an artist in Norwich during her lifetime.[9] She created plaques of a number of famous figures, including Thomas John Barnardo.[10]

In 1926, Buckingham produced a plaque portrait of John Bowers, former Bishop of Thetford, from which a cast was taken for Norwich Cathedral.[10] In 1984, the original plaster plaque was unveiled at North Creake parish church, following a gift from Buckingham to Bowers' grandsons.[10]

Around 1927, Buckingham produced a bronze plaque to William Fellowes of Shotesham Park for the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.[11] In 1933, she produced a bronze tablet depicting the Bishop of Winchester for Leicester Cathedral.[12] In 1949, Buckingham was responsible for a war memorial plaque commissioned by the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, representing "youth holding the torch of freedom and kneeling on the serpent of evil.[9] In 1959, a bronze relief of Walter Nugent Monck by Buckingham was unveiled as part of a memorial at the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, which Monck had founded.[13][14]

On 13 November 1944, Buckingham was one of eight members to attend the inaugural meeting of the Norwich Twenty Group (originally made up of 14 artists).[6]

References

  1. ^ "1939 Register". Findmypast. 1939.
  2. ^ a b "Norfolk baptisms". Findmypast. 28 May 1901.
  3. ^ "England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019". Findmypast. 1988.
  4. ^ "Florence Maidie Buckingham | 1 Artworks at Auction | MutualArt". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  5. ^ "Buckingham, Florence Maidie, 1901–1988 | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  6. ^ a b "Suffolk Artists - NORWICH TWENTY GROUP". suffolkartists.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  7. ^ "Celebrating 130 years of championing art in Norfolk". Eastern Daily Press. 2015-06-15. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  8. ^ a b Gray, Sara (Sara E. ) (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Internet Archive. Cambridge: Lutterworth Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7188-3084-7.
  9. ^ a b "Norwich Union Life Insurance Society". The Times. 19 May 1949. p. 9.
  10. ^ a b c "Plaque to the memory of a bishop". Lynn Advertiser. 17 February 1984. p. 11.
  11. ^ "Bronze Plaque to William Fellowes -former N& N Hospital from the Recording Archive for Public Sculpture in Norfolk & Suffolk". www.racns.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-10-18.
  12. ^ "Bronze Memorial Tablet, Leicester Cathedral". The Builder. 11 August 1933. p. 216.
  13. ^ "Nugent Monck". The Stage. 4 June 1959. p. 1.
  14. ^ "Memorial Plaque to Nugent Monck". The Times. 12 September 1959. p. 8.
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