Prize for Distinguished Service to Sculpture (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1923-1949

Organizing Institution or Venue

Organized by Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923

Participants

Award made to William Hamo Thornycroft
6 February 1923
Awarded the medal in 1923.

Award made to Alfred Gilbert
1926
Awarded the Gold Medal of the Society in the Autumn of 1926.

Award made to (Alfred) Adrian Jones
1935

Award made to Joseph Joel Duveen
1936
Awarded the gold medal. On receiving the medal Duveen stated that: 'I feel that modern and contemporary Sculpture has been in need of a more adequate display. Sculpture should have its own environment and its own method of lighting and display. There is a real need of a gallery in the West end, not too far from Bond Street' (see Royal Society of British Sculptor's 'Annual Report, 1936', 1937, p. 5).

Award made to Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze
1938
Awarded the prize for the year 1938; presented at the Society's Annual Dinner on the 14 February 1939

Award made to William Goscombe John
1941 - 1942
Awarded in 1941, presented to John in 1942

Award made to Constance Goetze
1944
Awarded the prize after setting up the Constance Fund in the same year

Award made to William Charles Holland King
28 December 1949
Awarded the Gold Medal

Awarded to William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
12 December 1928

Awarded to William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
12 March 1929
Awarded the gold medal on this date by Sir William Llewellyn at the Royal Society of British Sculptor's annual dinner

Participants included David McGill
1923
Designed the reverse of the Gold Medal awarded for the competition. McGill was elected an Honorary Member of the Society 'as a mark of appreciation of his generosity in designing the reverse of the Gold Medal quite free of cost to the society' (see 'Annual Report, 1923', 1924, p. 8).

Promoted by Thomas Mewburn Crook
1923
The prize was originally proposed by Crook to the Council of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Promoted by Samuel William Ward Willis
1923
The prize was originally proposed by T. M. Crook and 'seconded' by Ward-Willis, to the Council of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Sources

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 31 December 1923. To be Presented at the Twentieth Ordinary General Meeting, 1924
1924
pp. 3-4.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1928, to be Presented at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary General Meeting, 1929
March 1929
p. 5.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1929, to be Presented at the Twenty-Sixth Ordinary General Meeting, 1930
March 1930
p. 5.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1935, to be Presented at the Thirty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1936
March 1936
p. 4.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1949, to be Presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting, 1950
February 1950
p. 3.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1942, to be Presented at the Thirty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting, 1943
March 1943
p. 9.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1944, to be Presented at the Forty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1945
March 1945
p. 8.