ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH SCULPTORS
The Society of British Sculptors was established in February 1905 with fifty-one members, including all the leading sculptors of the day. Voting by ballot, resulted in president Thomas Brock (1847-1922), treasurer and council member Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge (1843–1911) and the council Alfred John Drury (1868-1940), George James Frampton (1860-1928), William Silver Frith (1850-1924), Frank Lynn Jenkins (1870-1927), William Goscombe John (1860-1952), Thomas Stirling Lee (1857-1916), David McGill (1864-1947), Frederick William Pomeroy (1856-1924), William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens (1862-1943), William Hamo Thornycroft (1850-1925) and Francis Derwent Wood (1871-1926) and later that year Henry Hugh Armstead (1828-1905), Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) were elected honorary members. The aims of the Society were, 'The promotion and advancement in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and its Colonies and Dependencies, of the art of sculpture and the maintenance and protection of the interests of Sculptors and the elevation of the status of the Profession of Sculpture.' In recognition of the Society’s services to the art of sculpture, it was granted royal patronage in 1911 and became the Royal Society of British Sculptors. For many years the Society helped organise exhibitions in the United Kingdom and overseas but did not put on its own shows. This changed in the 1990s when the Society launched an active exhibition programme, opening a gallery at Dora House, 108 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London and the mounting of large off-site shows. Suffolk artists who exhibited with the Royal Society of British Sculptors include Mary Anstee-Parry, John Bridgeman, Alexander Costello, Kate Denton, Laurence Thomas Edwards, George Alfred Holman, Norman Henry Sillman and Thomas William Wilkinson.
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Works by This Artist
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