Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
Start Date: 1884
End Date: 1950
Type: Scholarship
Description: At his death in 1879, Charles Landseer, ex-Keeper at the Royal Academy, bequeathed £10,000 to fund scholarships for students of painting and sculpture. A scholarship of £40 was given for the 'best work done in the examination for passing into the Second Term of Studentship'.
In 1903 the terms of the Landseer Scholarships were altered to be tenable for 2 years. In 1924, the Royal Academy Schools Council increased increased the Landseer prizes for three models of a figure from the life, from £10 and £15, to £20 and £30.
Policy:
Participants
Awarded prize to George James Frampton
1885
Awarded prize to Kate Bannin
1885
Awarded prize to Arthur George Walker
1886
Awarded prize to William Henry Totterdale Venner
1886
Awarded prize to William Goscombe John
1887
Awarded prize to Thomas Richard Essex
1888
Awarded prize to William Henry Prosser
1888
Awarded prize to Henry Charles Fehr
1889
Awarded prize to Basil Gotto
1890
Awarded prize to Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1890
Awarded prize to Paul Raphael Montford
1891
Awarded prize to Sidney Herbert Physick
1891
Awarded prize to Henry Poole
1894
Awarded prize to Robert Edward C. F. Glassby Jnr
1894
Awarded prize to Clement William Jewitt
1895
Awarded prize to Alfred Turner
1897
Awarded prize to Gilbert William Bayes
1898
Awarded prize to Mortimer John Brown
1898
Awarded prize to Arthur Stanley Young
1899
Awarded prize to Harry Price
1899
Awarded prize to Frank Arnold Wright
1900
Awarded prize to Stanley Nicholson Babb
1900
Awarded prize to Frederic Charles Chrisfield
1903
Awarded prize to Leonard Jennings
1904
Two years
Awarded prize to Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
1904
Awarded prize to Leonard Stanford Merrifield
1904
Awarded prize to Louis Frederick vai Roselieb (Roslyn)
1905
Two years. Name given as Louis Fritz Vai Roselieb.
Awarded prize to George Alexander
1905
Two years
Awarded prize to George Duncan MacDougald
1905
Awarded prize to William Charles Holland King
1905
Awarded prize to Frank Gatter
1906
Awarded prize to James Alexander Stevenson
1906
Awarded prize to Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
1907
Awarded prize to John Angel
1907
Awarded prize to Newbury Abbot Trent
1909
Awarded prize to John Angel
1910
Awarded prize to Alfred Henry Wilkinson
1910
Awarded prize to James Booth
1911
Awarded prize to Alfred Henry Wilkinson
1911
Awarded prize to Alexander Stiles
1912
Two years
Awarded prize to Edgar Allan Howes
1912
Two years; name given as Allen E. Howes
Awarded prize to (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
1913
Two years
Awarded prize to Peter Induni
1913
Two years
Awarded prize to Edgar Silver Frith
1914
Two years
Awarded prize to Thomas Humphrey Paget
1914
Two years
Awarded prize to William James Bloye
1915
Two years
Awarded prize to Anthonius G. W. Slobbe
1915
Two years
Awarded prize to David Evans
1922
Two years
Awarded prize to Julian Phelps Allan
1923
Two years
Awarded prize to John Leslie Course
1923
Two years
Awarded prize to Lilian Everilda Birch
1924
Two years
Awarded prize to Una Rawnsley (Hanbury)
1924
Two years
Awarded prize to Hilda B. Ainscough
1925
Two years
Awarded prize to Alice Bertha Tippin
1925
Two years
Awarded prize to Arthur James John Ayres
1930
Two years
Awarded prize to Sheila Esther Kahn
1930
Two years; name given as Sheila M. Kahn
Awarded prize to Marjorie Meggitt
1931
Two years
Awarded prize to Frances Margaret Bruce
1932
Two years
Awarded prize to William Easson Tocher
1932 - 1934
Two years, whilst studying also engaged in architectural work in London (Northern Whig and Belfast Post, 17th February 1938, p.3. ‘Belfast College of Art, exhibition opened by Vice-Chancellor’)
Awarded prize to Ivor Roberts-Jones
1936
Two years; name given as Ivor Roberts-Jones.
Awarded prize to John B. Dunlop
1939
Two years
Awarded prize to Stephen Leslie Rickard
1939
Two years
Awarded prize to Frank Graeme Martin
1948
Two years
Awarded prize to Anthony A. Caro
1949
Two years
Awarded prize to Gillian Robotham
1950
Two years
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1924, 1925 Royal Academy Annual Reports
20 February 1925
pp. 17, 33
The History of the Royal Academy 1768-1968
1968
pp. 142, 154
Citing this record
'Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950', 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=msib4_1257848771, accessed 24 Sep 2023]