{{Short description|English painter and designer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person |name=Frederick Weekes |image=File:BurgesWardrobe.JPG |caption=A wardrobe, designed by Burges and painted by Weekes |birth_date= 1834 |birth_place=London |death_date= {{death year and age|1924|1834}} |death_place= |alma_mater = |notable_works= {{Plainlist| * Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral * Church of Christ the Consoler * Cardiff Castle * Castell Coch}} The Tower House}}

'''Frederick Weekes''' (1834-1924) was an English painter and designer.<ref name="victorianweb1">{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/burges/15.html |title=St Mary, Studley Royal, by William Burges (1827-1881) |publisher=Victorianweb.org |date=2011-12-01 |accessdate=2017-03-26}}</ref> Son of the successful Victorian sculptor, Henry Weekes,<ref name="victorianweb2">{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/stainedglass/lonsdale/1.html |title=East Window, Christ the Consoler, Skelton, by H. W. Lonsdale |publisher=Victorianweb.org |date=2011-12-07 |accessdate=2017-03-26}}</ref> two of his brothers also became artists, the genre and animal painters Herbert William Weekes and Henry Weekes Junior.

He established a long partnership with the architect William Burges, working with him on many of his major commissions, including Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/burges/17.html |title=[A Review of&#93; "Searching for the New Jerusalem: The Iconography of St Fin Barre's Cathedral," Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork |publisher=Victorianweb.org |date=2014-04-10 |accessdate=2017-03-26}}</ref> Cardiff Castle, Castell Coch,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/castiron/6.html |title=Door to Lord Bute's Sitting Room, Cardiff Castle. |publisher=Victorianweb.org |date=2009-12-11 |accessdate=2017-03-26}}</ref> the Yorkshire churches<ref name="victorianweb1"/><ref name="victorianweb2"/> and Burges's own home in London, The Tower House.

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