The British School at Rome Scholarship in Sculpture
Start Date: 1911 (Presumed)
Type: Scholarship
Description: No scholarship in sculpture was awarded in the following years: 1915-1919, 1921, 1926, and 1929 (but two awards made in 1931 to compensate).
Policy: Stage One.
1. Open to all art students under 30.
2. Students must declare their intention to enter six months in advance.
3.a) Under supervision, in their schools, students are to model a figure from the life on a scale of 2 feet 6 inches, over 36 hours, on 6 days, at designated times. Students who do not belong to an art school but who can prove their eligibility can participate under same conditions.
b) Cast in plaster, and accompanied by drawings, the models are sent to London.
4. Works selected for second stage by a jury of 7 sculptors.
Stage 2.
5. In London, under supervision, students create 'a figure from the life, a sketch model of a given subject, and a drawing from the life' [dimensions and times specified].
6. Works judged by jury of 7 sculptors; no more than 10 students pass to final stage.
Final Stage.
7. Students who have had to travel are given travel expenses. Students receive 2 pounds 10 shillings for every week they are engaged with the competition work.
8. Students meet in London and are set a subject.
9. Students have eight weeks to produce a scale model. Work is supervised, on the premises, and contestants work in separate compartments.
10. 'The Works shall be judged in the material in which they have been executed, by a jury of seven sculptors' [25 September, 1911, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1].
Organizing Institution or Venue
Founded with advice from Royal Society of British Sculptors
25 September 1911 - 9 October 1911
The Royal Society of British Sculptors held two meetings to discuss scheme and advise on its format, members also sat on the Council and Faculty of Sculpture [18 September 1911, 25 September 1911, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1].
Funded by Royal Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition
1911
Organized by The British School at Rome
Participants
Awarded prize to Gilbert Ledward
1913
Ledward spent almost two years in Rome, however returned to London in 1915 because of the war.
Awarded prize to Charles Sargeant Jagger
1914
Jagger received his award days before the outbreak of war, he enlisted rather going to Rome. However his scholarship was paid until 1915 and he used it to supplement his army pay. After the war, he was given a year's scholarship in London during which time he created 'No Man's Land'. The British School at Rome paid for the casting of the relief in bronze, which was acquired by Tate.
Awarded prize to Alfred Frank Hardiman
1920
Hardiman received the first scholarship to be awarded after the First World War
Awarded prize to (George) Rayner Hoff
1922
He was awarded first place in the competition this year, James Arthur Woodford came second and was also given a scholarship. Rayner Hoff spent only a few months in Rome, and left to take up a teaching position in Sydney, Australia.
Awarded prize to David Evans
1923
Awarded prize to John Rattenbury Skeaping
1924
Skeaping was accompanied by his wife, Barbara Hepworth.
Awarded prize to Emile Jacot
1925
Awarded prize to Harold Wilson Parker
1927
Awarded prize to John Francis Kavanagh
1930
Awarded prize to Charlotte Ellen Gibson
1931
Awarded prize to Arthur James John Ayres
1931
Awarded prize to Marjorie Meggitt
1932
Awarded prize to Frances Margaret Bruce
1933
Awarded prize to Douglas Robertson Bisset
1934
Awarded prize to Geoffrey Hampton Deeley
1935
Awarded prize to Garth Montgomery W Williams
1936
Awarded prize to William Easson Tocher
1937 - 1939
'£250 per annum, tenable for two years' (Belfast Education Committee Minutes, April 1937). His winning entry for the Rome Scholarship was exhibited at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, early in 1937 and reproduced in 'The Times' on 24 April.
Awarded prize to Albert Pountney
1938
Awarded prize to Karin Margareta Lowenadler
1939
Awarded prize to Douglas Wain-Hobson
1947
Awarded prize to John David Prangnell
1948
Awarded prize to Guido Belmonte
1949
Awarded prize to Michael Gaspard Rizzello
1951
Sources
A Short History of the British School at Rome
1990
Multiple references, see especially pp. 10-11
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
25 September 1911; 28 February 1913.
Citing this record
'The British School at Rome Scholarship in Sculpture', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1222166855, accessed 22 Mar 2023]
