Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
Start Date: 1922
End Date: 1951 (Circa)
Type: Scholarship
Description: The selection committee for 1938 comprised of Gilbert Bayes, William Reid Dick, Helena Gleichen, William Goscombe John and Thomas Mewburn Crook.
In 1939 the selection committee included Bayes, Anne Acheson, Reid Dick, Goscombe John, Lady Valda Machell and Crook.
The selection committee in 1940 included Bayes, Reid Dick, Goscombe John and Crook. The following year Margaret Wrightson joined this panel.
Policy: Set up to give support to young women sculptors. On the 12 July, 1922, a meeting was held to discuss the 'formation of a fund in memory of the late Lady Feodora Gleichen, with the object of providing a studio for young women sculptors and generally assisting them in their profession. Considerable sums were at once subscribed for the fund, and progress was being made with the scheme during the rest of the year' (see Royal Academy 'Annual Report, 1922', 1923, p. 14).
The Royal Academy 'Annual Report, 1937', noted that 'the Committee of this Fund (for awarding prizes to Women Sculptors) having proposed that the Fund be transferred to the Royal Society of British Sculptors, the Council have agreed to the proposal, and arrangements for the transfer were being made at the close of the year' (p. 28).
In 1938 the Royal Society of British Sculptor's 'Annual Report' records that 'the fund was administered by the Society for the first time under the new rules and the selection was made from the works exhibited in the Royal Academy Exhibition', (pp. 8-9).
In 1947 the award fund was limited to £75 per annum for the next 3 years. It was also agreed that the society would henceforth send circulars 'giving particulars of the competition to Art Schools throughout the country' (see RBS 'Annual Report, 1947', 1948, p. 7).
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Academy of Arts
1924 (Circa) - 1937
The fund was transferred to the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1937. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1937', (1938), p. 28.
Organized by Royal Society of British Sculptors
1937
The fund was transferred to the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1937. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1937', (1938), p. 28.
Participants
Awarded prize to Anne Crawford Acheson
1938
Awarded the prize for a statuette entitled 'Thief'.
Awarded prize to Winifred Turner
1939
Won the prize for her statue entitled 'Young Girl', that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1939.
Awarded prize to Rosamund Mary Beatrice Fletcher
1940
One of two recipients of a £50 prize in this year. Fletcher won the prize for three reliefs that were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1940.
Awarded prize to Eily Roche
1940
One of two recipients of a £50 prize in this year. Roche won the prize for her walnut statuette that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1940.
Awarded prize to P. N. Clarke
1941
One of two recipients of the prize in this year. Clarke won the award for her carved teakwood work entitled 'Evening Star', and her limewood 'Musician'.
Awarded prize to Inger Norhold
1941
One of two recipients of the prize in this year. Norhold was awarded the prize for a mahogany head entitled 'Marianne'.
Awarded prize to Elsie Pentland
1942
Awarded a first prize of £75 for a bronze head entitled 'Victor Bonney'.
Awarded prize to Stanfield Boydell
1942
Awarded the second prize for an alabaster head entitled 'Bloom'.
Awarded prize to Edith Mabel Gabriel
1943
One of two recipients of the prize in this year. Gabriel gained the largest award of £80 for her Cornish Serpentine Rock work entitled 'Leopard'.
Awarded prize to Elsie March
1943
One of two recipients of the prize in this year. March won the smaller £20 prize for her terracotta statuette entitled 'Mother and Child'.
Awarded prize to Edith Mabel Gabriel
1944
One of two recipients of the prize in this year. Gabriel was awarded £50 for her recumbent sculpture entitled 'Rest', in Hopton Wood Stone.
Awarded prize to Polly Hill Clarke
1944
One of two recipients of the prize in this year. Clarke was awarded £50 for two works: a carved head in cedarwood entitled 'Sheila', and 'Janet and Anita' in beechwood.
Awarded prize to Christine Gregory
1945
Won the prize (of £100) for a coloured plaster work entitled 'A Child of Africa'.
Awarded prize to Karin Margareta Jonzen
1946
Won the £100 prize for her terracotta work entitled 'Kneeling Figure', which had been exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Awarded prize to Mary Jenks
1947
Awarded the prize in 1947 for her 'Head of a Man', which had been exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Awarded prize to Faith W Ashe
1950
Won the prize for her polyphant stone work entitled 'Symbol of Motherhood', which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1950.
Awarded prize to Joy Wright
1951
Won the prize for her 'Portrait of Pamela'.
Awarded to (Rose) Gwynneth Cobden Holt
1948
Won this for her ivory statuette entitled 'Mother and Child', which was exhibited a the Royal Academy of Arts in 1947.
Officers included George James Frampton
1924
Served on the Fund's committee. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1924', (1925), p. 9.
Selection committee members included Gilbert William Bayes
1938 - 1940
Selection committee members included William Reid Dick
1938 - 1940
Selection committee members included Helena Emily Gleichen
1938
Selection committee members included William Goscombe John
1938 - 1940
Selection committee members included Thomas Mewburn Crook
1938 - 1940
Selection committee members included Anne Crawford Acheson
1939
Selection committee members included Margaret J. Wrightson
1940
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
p. 9
Citing this record
'Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951', 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_1263475957, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
