Chelsea Arts Club

Locations

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Address 181 King Street Chelsea London | View on map
1891 - 1901
These dates were submitted by Geoffrey Matthews, the Secretary of the Chelsea Arts Club.

Address 143 Old Church Street Chelsea London SW3 | View on map
1902
to the present. These dates were submitted by Geoffrey Matthews, the Secretary of the Chelsea Arts Club.

Associated People

Care of location for Francis William Sargant
1936

Chaired by Thomas Stirling Lee
1891 - 1894
He was chairman a second time between 1912-13.

Chaired by Frank Lynn Jenkins
1902 - 1904

Chaired by Henry Alfred Pegram
1904 - 1906

Chaired by (Alfred) Adrian Jones
1906 - 1908

Chaired by Basil Gotto
1913 - 1915

Chaired by Henry Poole
1915 - 1917

Chaired by E. Roland Bevan
1940 - 1946

Chaired by Loris Rey
1948 - 1950

Chaired by Charles Thomas Wheeler
1950 - 1952

Members included Leonard Stanford Merrifield

Members included William Bateman Fagan
According to his obituary in The Times, Fagan was one of the oldest members of the club

Members included Frederick Brook Hitch

Members included Loris Rey

Members included Francis Derwent Wood
Joined early in the Club's existence. After his death members of the Club obtained permission to erect a bronze statue by Wood as a memorial. 'Atalanta' (1923) is sited on Chelsea Embankment.

Members included Nelson Ethelred Dawson
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included William Silver Frith
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included Thomas Stirling Lee
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included Henry Alfred Pegram
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included Albert Arthur Toft
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included Henry Tonks
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club

Members included James Havard Thomas
1898 (Presumed)

Members included Henry Poole
1904 - 1928
Was apparently "a popular member of the club", and as chairman played a key role in keeping the Club going during the First World War. Afterwards he was instrumental in reviving the annual ball, spending a considerable amount of time devising decorations for these events and other revels. [Leicester galleries catalogue 1930]. After his death, the club sent £50 to his widow and established a fund to erect a permanent memorial. This took the form of a fountain with a figure of cupid riding on a scallop shell cast in lead. The sculpture was by Poole and the surround was designed by the architect and member of the Club, Leonard Holcombe Bucknell. The fountain was unveiled on 25 March 1930. [See Cross, 1992]

Members included E. Roland Bevan
1920 - 1965 (Circa)
Bevan was a long-standing active member of the Club. He was chairman between 1940-46 and a member of the Chelsea Arts ball committee

Members included Eric Raymond Broadbent
1923 (Circa)

Sources

Artists and Bohemians: 100 Years with the Chelsea Arts Club
1992

Catalogue of the Exhibition of International Art of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1898
1898

Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture by the Late Henry Poole RA
1930
p.9.

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Vol. V LAWR-SHER
1981
pp. 449-50

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. VI SHERR-ZUL
1982
p. 280