Memorial to William Hamo Thornycroft (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931-1932
Start Date: 1931
End Date: 24 October 1932
Type: Subscription fund
Description: The memorial panel was designed by C. L. Hartwell, and was unveiled on the 24 October 1932.
Hartwell executed the memorial at a 'nominal charge' and the balance from the subscriptions for the memorial was given to the Artists' General Benevolent Institution.
Policy: The Royal Society of British Sculptors' 'Annual Report, 1931' (1932), notes that the Society had arranged for the erection in St Paul's Cathedral of a Memorial to Thornycroft. The costs of the Memorial were raised by voluntary subscriptions from members of the society, and the sculptors 'other admirers'.
Participants
In memory of William Hamo Thornycroft
Participants included Charles Leonard Hartwell
1931 - 24 October 1932
Designed and exected the memorial panel.
Citing this record
'Memorial to William Hamo Thornycroft (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931-1932', 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_1272022488, accessed 27 Sep 2021]
