Charles James Pibworth was born in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire [or Bristol - sources differ], England on 23 January 1878 and studied at Bristol School of Art, the Royal College of Art in London, and at the Royal Academy Schools in London from 1899 to 1902. He was awarded Gold Medals in the National Competition in 1899 and 1900.
In 1902, he entered a relief of ‘Boadicea Urging the Britons to Avenge her Outraged Daughter’ in one of the RA student competitions. After completing his artistic education, Pibworth collaborated with the architect Charles Holden, first in 1904 on the Law Society building extension in Chancery Lane, London and then on a series of 21 reliefs of figures from English literature for Bristol Central Library, 1907.
He exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; the London Salon, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours; the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of British Artists and Royal Academy in London; Royal West of England Academy in Bristol; the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Aberdeen Artists' Society; Leeds City Art Gallery; and at the Paris Salon. He also participated in the Ghent International Exhibition in 1913 and the exhibition Arts Décoratifs de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande at the Louvre in Paris in 1914.
Pibworth was elected an Associate of The Royal West of England Academy in 1904; a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1907; and a member of the Art Workers' Guild in 1910. One of his more unusual commissions included a birdbath located off Cheyne Row, Chelsea executed in 1915 by Pibwoth to commemorate the founding of the Women's Police Service.
His sitters included the actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson, the sculptor, Edward Lanteri, the painter Glyn Philpot, the sociologist and town planner Sir Patrick Geddes, and President Herbert C. Hoover.
Pibworth taught at Camberwell School of Art in London from 1903 to 1917.
His address was given as 4 Bramerton Street, Chelsea, London in 1899 and 1901; 14A Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London in 1904 and 1943; and 295 King's Road, Chelsea, London in 1948 and 1958. He died in London on 8 November 1958.
