W. Pepper (the elder) - Biography
(fl. 1830-1854). Pepper exhibited busts at the Royal Academy, 1846-1854, and there is also one by him of F.W. Robertson, dated 1853, in the Bodleian at Oxford. His bust of William Seymour (1850) is in Brighton Town Hall. His signed tablets include those to the Lidbetter children, 1831, and Mary Marla, 1838, both at Bramber, Sussex, while in Brighton Parish Church is his large monument with a relief-bust of J.Allen, 1851, and a charming miniature Gothic work to Mrs. Crozier, with a small figure of a woman mourning by an urn. (Source: Gunnis)
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