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LONDON SKETCH CLUB

1898 - ?

The London Sketch Club was founded in April 1898 by some of the eminent commercial artists and illustrators of the day including George Charles Haité (1855-1924), president and Dudley Hardy (1867-1922) vice president, with Cecil Aldin (1870–1935), Tom Browne (1872-1910), Walter G Churcher (1859-1934), Walter John Burroughs Fowler (1860-1930), William Lee Hankey (1869–1952), Robert Humphries, Philip May (1864–1903), Cecil Watson Quinnell (1868-1932), Frank Richards (1863–1935), Robert Sauber (1868-1935), Lance Thackeray (1869-1916) and Percy Wadham (1868-1916) with Frank [Frederick] H. Jackson (1848–1923), hon. secretary. The club was run entirely voluntarily and held its inaugural exhibition at the Modern Gallery at 175 New Bond Street, London in October 1898. By 1903 it had established itself in permanent premises in Wells Street, off London's main thoroughfare Oxford Street. In 1904 it held a poster exhibition at the Royal Aquarium which introduced to a wider audience the work of the Beggarstaffs, otherwise J. & W. Beggarstaff, the pseudonym used by the British artists William Newzam Prior Nicholson (1872-1949) and James Ferrier Pryde (1866-1941) for their collaborative partnership in the design of posters and other graphic work between 1894 and 1899. The Club is an historic private members’ club for working artists and lay sketchers from varied creative fields, meeting weekly to sketch and draw in a unique convivial atmosphere. In 1957 the club relocated to 7 Dilke Street, Chelsea, London where it still meets and welcomes non-members to sketch on Thursdays. Former members include Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935), Henry Mayo Bateman (1887-1970), Arnold Victor Beauvais (1886-1984), Thomas Arthur Browne (1870-1910), Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), Dudley Hardy (1866-1922), John Hassall (1868-1948), Philip William May (1864-1903), Alfred Amrose Chew Leete (1882-1933), Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946), George Measures Parlby (1856-1944), James Ferrier Pryde (1866-1941), Charles Robinson (1870-1937), and Thomas Heath Robinson (1869-1950). Suffolk artists who were members of the London Sketch Club include Edgar Downs and Jack Savage.
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Pall Mall Gazette April 1898



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