Abraham Broadbent was born in Shipley, Yorkshire, England in 1868 and studied at the South London Technical School of Art in the mid-1890s. He subsequently remained in London where he worked as an architectural sculptor and stone carver. He participated in the 6th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1899. Between 1901 and 1919 he also exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He was elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1901 and the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1906. Notable among his commissions were relief carvings of figures of Huntington Shaw and Thomas Tompion for the frontage of Victoria and Albert Museum on Exhibition Road, London (1905); and decorative carvings for New School Hall, Eton College (1904–08).