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The Royal Society of Sculptors (RSS) is a British charity established in 1905, which promotes excellence in the art and practice of sculpture. Its headquarters are a centre for contemporary sculpture on Old Brompton Road in South Kensington, London. It is the oldest and largest organisation dedicated to sculpture in the UK. Until 2017, it was known as the Royal British Society of Sculptors. The Royal Society of Sculptors is a registered charity with a selective membership of around 700 professional sculptors. It aims to inspire, inform and engage people of all ages and backgrounds with sculpture, and to support sculptors' development of their practice to the highest professional standards. History It began as the Society of British Sculptors in 1905, in its first year it had 51 sculptor members. They received royal patronage in 1911, and were renamed the Royal Society of British Sculptors The Society gained charitable status in recognition of its educational activities in 1963 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Thomas (sculptor)
Cecil Walter Thomas, FRBS, (3 March 1885 – 16 September 1976) was a British sculptor and medallist. As a sculptor, he created many private memorials for display in churches and cemeteries and as a medallist was regularly commissioned by the Royal Mint. Early career Thomas was born in the Shepherd's Bush area of London to John Thomas, a seal engraver, and Alice Sophia Thomas (née Ings). As a teenager, Cecil became an apprentice in his father's practice and continued working for his father while studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, Heatherley School of Fine Art, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In his early career, he specialised in gem engraving, receiving commissions from all over the world, including several from the House of Fabergé. Nonetheless, his work in creating cameo portraits inspired his interest in medals and coins; he was one of the few artists to engrave directly into the die. Among his earliest works were a small medal in 1899 for S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne McKean
Lorne McKean (born 1939) is an English sculptor. She studied at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy School, before being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors The Royal Society of Sculptors (RSS) is a British charity established in 1905, which promotes excellence in the art and practice of sculpture. Its headquarters are a centre for contemporary sculpture on Old Brompton Road in South Kensington, Lo ... in 1972. McKean's husband was Edwin Russell (died 2013), a fellow sculptor. Selected public artworks References Living people 1939 births 20th-century English sculptors 21st-century English sculptors 21st-century English women artists Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools British modern sculptors 20th-century English women sculptors 21st-century English women sculptors {{UK-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Kendrick
Florence Ada Kendrick, later Flora Shipp, (1880–1969) was a British artist, notable both as a watercolour painter and sculptor of bronze busts and statuettes. Biography Kendrick was born in Margate in southern England, and her father, Joseph Thomas Kendrick, was a self-employed engraver. Kendrick studied at the Royal College of Art in London and, from the 1910s until 1957, regularly exhibited sculpture figures and portraits at the Royal Academy. She also exhibited at the Paris Salon, with the Royal West of England Academy and in Scotland with both the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy. From 1908 to 1919, Kendrick exhibited with the Society of Women Artists and was elected an Associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. In 1919 Kendrick married the art historian and critic Horace Shipp. For many years, she lived at Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, located mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Brompton Road
Old Brompton Road is a major street in the South Kensington district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. It starts from South Kensington tube station, South Kensington Underground station and runs south-west, through a mainly residential area, until it reaches West Brompton and the area around Earl's Court tube station. It runs through the SW5 and SW7 postcodes. There are several 5-star hotels and upmarket shops along the road. One of the most famous auction houses in the world, Christie's, was located near the eastern end of the road at number 85. The Coleherne public house, Coleherne pub (now The Pembroke), located at number 261, became well known for being the stalking ground for three serial killers, Dennis Nilsen, Michael Lupo and Colin Ireland. It is also mentioned in the song 'Hanging Around (The Stranglers song), Hanging Around' by The Stranglers, as well as in Armistead Maupin's ''Tales of the City'' book ''Babycakes''. Another landmark of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilean Shona
Eilean Shona () is a tidal island situated at the entrance of Moidart, Loch Moidart, on the west coast of Scotland, just north of the Ardnamurchan, Ardnamurchan Peninsula. The island is in area, with the highest point being Beinn a' Bhàillidh at . There are five other peaks of over and views of the sea and off-shore islands including Rhum, Eigg and Skye. It is reached by a short boat ride from the mainland (Dorlin Pier 4 km (25 miles) north of Acharacle). The modern name may be from the Old Norse for "sea island". The pre-Norse Gaelic name, as recorded by Adomnán was or , meaning 'foreshore island', similar to the derivation of Erraid. History Loch Moidart, guarded by Castle Tioram, is of historical significance in Scotland. The region was the seat of the Macdonalds of Clanranald, territory from where Charles Edward Stuart gained much of his support for the Jacobite uprising in 1745. Castle Tioram remained in Clanranalds hands until 1715 when it was set on fire and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franta Belsky
František Bělský (as artist used the name Franta Belsky; in Czech Franta Bělský, 6 April 1921 – 5 July 2000) was a Czech-British sculptor. He was known for large-scale abstract works of public art as well as more iconographic statues and busts of noted 20th-century figures such as Winston Churchill and members of the British Royal Family. Biography He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1921, the son of the economist Josef Bělský. His family stemmed originally from the village of Bělá, hence the toponymic surname Bělský. With his family, he fled to the United Kingdom after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, and volunteered for the Czechoslovak Exile Army. He fought in the Battle of France as a gunner and was twice mentioned in dispatches, once for carving a memorial stone to Czechoslovak soldiers whilst stationed at Cholmondeley, Cheshire, and again in 1944 when he was awarded the Czech bravery award for repairing a telephone line in France while unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Jackson (sculptor)
Philip Henry Christopher Jackson CVO DL (born 18 April 1944) is a Scottish sculptor, noted for his modern style and emphasis on form. Acting as Royal Sculptor to Queen Elizabeth II, his sculptures appear in numerous UK cities, as well as Argentina and Switzerland. His twice life-size (6 metre tall) bronze statue of Bobby Moore was erected outside the main entrance at the new Wembley Stadium in May 2007, to pay tribute to his effect on the game. Philip Jackson was born in Scotland during the Second World War and now works at the Edward Lawrence Studio in Midhurst, West Sussex and lives nearby. He went to the Farnham School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts). After leaving school, he was a press photographer for a year and then joined a design company as a sculptor. Half of his time is spent on commissions and the other half on his gallery sculpture. He is well known for his major outdoor pieces, such as the ''Young Mozart'' in Chelsea and the ''Jersey Libera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Clark (artist)
Michael Clark (born 1 April 1954) is a contemporary British artist. His work spans a broad range of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, photography, installation, video, performance and artist's books. Clark was born in Manchester and lives and works in London. Life and work In 1977 Clark met Muriel Belcher and Francis Bacon in The Colony Room club in Soho. Clark's portrait of Belcher on her deathbed (''Muriel Belcher Ill in bed'') was part of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1981, and won the Charles Wollaston Award. At the suggestion of Valerie Beston, of Marlborough Fine Art, Clark made the first of a series of portraits of Bacon, one of which is in the British Museum's collection. "Michael Clark's portraits of Bacon emphasise the sad preoccupation of his sagging face, with eyes deep in concussed hollows grimly contemplating mortality". ''Vanitas'' (1990-1992), Clark's double-sided portrait of Lisa Stansfield, was part of '' The Portrait Now'' exhib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Beit
Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, KCMG, FRS (7 December 1865 – 7 December 1930) was a German-born British financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur. Life history and career Beit was born in Hamburg, Germany, the younger brother of Alfred Beit, into the Jewish family of an affluent Hamburg trader. He went to England in 1888, where he joined the stockbroking firm of Wernher, Beit & Co., in which his brother Alfred Beit, was a partner. In 1890 he left for South Africa to gain experience in the diamond industry. He remained for six years and played an active role in the development of Rand Gold Mines and became a member of Hermann Eckstein's firm, H. Eckstein & Co. Despite playing a prominent part in the Witwatersrand gold industry, he returned to London, partly because he did not want to confine his interests solely to financial activities, but also to cultivate his scientific, artistic and cultural tastes. He became a naturalised British citizen in 1896. He fell under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Musgrave
Olivia Musgrave, Baroness Gardiner of Kimble (born 1958) is an Irish sculptor. Biography Olivia Musgrave was born in Dublin in 1958. She studied Political Science in Paris and lived in Italy. She then studied at the City and Guilds of London Institute under sculptor Allan Sly. Her work is reminiscent of Greek mythology and Marino Marini, Arturo Martini, El Greco and Giacomo Manzù. It can be found at the John Martin Gallery in London, the Royal Hibernian Academy and Jorgensen Fine Art in Dublin, the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Somerville Manning Gallery in the US. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors and a Member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors. In 2014 she was elected President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors. In 2004, she married John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble :''See also Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner'' John Gardiner, Baron Gardiner of Kimble (born 17 March 1956), is a British politician. He is a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Jonzen
Karin Margareta Jonzen, née Löwenadler, (22 December 1914 – 29 January 1998) was a British figure sculptor whose works, in bronze, terracotta and stone, were commissioned by a number of public bodies in Britain and abroad. Biography Karin Löwenadler was born in London to Swedish parents and attended the Slade School of Art from 1933 to 1936. At the Slade she won prizes in both painting and sculpture and decided to abandon her original ambition to become a cartoonist and concentrate on sculpture. Jonzen continued her studies at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Royal Academy Stockholm and at the City and Guilds Art School in Kennington during 1939. That same year she won the British School at Rome, Prix de Rome, but the beginning of World War II prevented her making use of the travelling scholarship it conferred. During the war she worked as a Civil Defence ambulance driver until she developed rheumatic fever and was given a medical discharge. While recovering Jonzen be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Acheson
Anne Crawford Acheson (5 August 1882 – 13 March 1962) was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and internationally. She was awarded the CBE in 1919. During the First World War she worked for the Surgical Requisites Association at Mulberry Walk in Chelsea, London. Acheson received the Gleichen Memorial Award in 1938. She divided her time between London and Glenavy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Career Acheson was born at Portadown in County Armagh to John Acheson, a manufacturer, and his wife, Harriet Glasgow. The Achesons lived at 51 Carrickblacker Rd, Portadown, Co Armagh. Anne Acheson was educated at Victoria College, Belfast, the Belfast School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London where she studied sculpture under Édouard Lantéri. Acheson first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1913, when her sculpture ''The Pixie'' was accepted. Over the next four decad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
