Frederick William Pomeroy's bronze Perseus was exhibited in 1898, this was a reduction of a life-size plaster figure. The theme of small bronzes was one Pomeroy favoured, in keeping with Renaissance tradition; between 1890 and 1900 he exhibited eight bronze statuettes at the Royal Academy. These were conceived as small figures, and the most popular was his Perseus; versions were also exhibited by Arthur Collie.
The figure of Perseus is a supreme example of the male nude, rendered in a taut and graceful pose, with the musculature rippling across the surface. Unlike Gilbert's version of the hero, Pomeroy's presents the hero triumphant, displaying both his trophy and his beauty. Versions of the bronze are in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and in the Laing Art gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and interestingly they differ both to each other and to the original plaster. Small details such as the decoration on the helmet, the medusa's hair, the sword hilt and the presence of a fig leaf vary. The present bronze, with only one coil of the snake at the front of the hilt and the waxy treatment of the Medusa's hair, is much like the statuette Pomeroy is shown holding in a photograph (Read, op. cit., fig. 192). In fact, the present Perseus was given by the sculptor himself to Henry Hewkley as a token of friendship. They knew each other from the Langham Sketching Club.