Constance Fund, 1944-

Start Date: 1944

Type: Scholarship

Description: First commission was awarded by the Constance Fund Committee to William McMillan in 1944, for 'a large Fountain Group for Regents Park'. The fountain was unveiled in the spring of 1950. McMillan was also awarded the RBS Best Work medal in gold, for this work in 1950.

The committee commissioned a fountain figure or group for the English Garden in Victoria Park. It offered 5 prizes of £50 (awarded to H. Cawthra, B. Copnall, W. Marsden, M. Wheeler, and J. Woodford), and agreed to pay £1,500 to the winner. Copnall won the competition, and his bronze fountain figure entitled 'Young Tom' was unveiled in 1950.

Policy: Described as a trust fund set up by Mrs Constance Goetze in memory of her husband Sigismund Goetze.

Established for 'the encouragement of Ideal Sculpture and its setting for Parks and Public Places in conjunction with the settings and surroundings'.

Goetze stipulated that the Committee would consist of three sculptors, and architect, a horticulturalist, and 'a few laymen'.

Citing this record

'Constance Fund, 1944-', 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_1273592684, accessed 10 Jun 2023]