Leverhulme Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1932-1951
Start Date: 1932 (Circa)
End Date: 1951
Type: Scholarship
Policy: From 1932 an annual gift of £500 was awarded by the Trustees of the first Viscount Leverhulme for the award of scholarships 'to those students who, on completing their studies in the Royal Academy Schools, are considered [...] to be most deserving of assistance in commencing their work as professional artists' (Hutchison, 1968, p. 174).
Scholarships were open to men and women.
Participants
Beneficiaries included Ramachandra Pandurang Kamat
1935
Awarded a scholarship of £100 on the 22 January 1935.
Beneficiaries included Marjorie Meggitt
5 November 1935
Awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship of £100.
Beneficiaries included William Easson Tocher
19 January 1937
Received a Leverhulme Scholarship of £100 in 1937.
Beneficiaries included Stephen Leslie Rickard
1948
In 1939 Rickard won the Edward Scott Travelling Studentship of £200, for a composition in sculpture. It is recorded in 1948, however, that as Rickard was unable to travel abroad, he was awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship of £200 in 1948, 'to assist him in commencing work as a professional sculptor' (see 'Annual Report, 1948', 1949, pp. 14, 16).
Beneficiaries included Richard Alfred Thomas
1949
Awarded a £150 Leverhulme Scholarship for sculpture in 1949.
Citing this record
'Leverhulme Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1932-1951', 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_1264107248, accessed 28 May 2023]
