Charles James Pibworth RWA
Other names: E.J. Pibworth
Born 1878
Died 8 November 1958
Active: 1899 - 1958
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire. He was the son of Charles K Pibworth, a bootmaker. Charles James studied at Bristol School of Art, Royal College of Art (c.1897 after winning a scholarship) and the Royal Academy Schools (c.1900).
Works
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Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
1929
T. Siminson, Esq.
1899 (Presumed)
£7 7s.
Margery
1899 (Presumed)
£7 7s.
Margery
1901 (Presumed)
Childhood
1901 (Presumed)
£20
Strength
1902 (Presumed)
£40
Old Man
1902 (Presumed)
£40
Alexander Carr, Esq., M.R.C.S.
1902 (Presumed)
Sorrow
1903 (Presumed)
H. E. Everard Hulton, Esq., Muc. Bac.
1903 (Presumed)
Herr Jan Kubelik
1903 (Presumed)
Boadicea inciting the Iceni
1903 (Presumed)
Made in Plaster and Bronze:
Plaster - £100.0.0
Bronze - £200.0.0
Professor Edouard Lanteri
1904 (Presumed)
Eileen
1904 (Presumed)
£35
Gustav Ernst
1907 (Presumed)
Sappho
1907 (Presumed)
£30
Charis
1907 (Presumed)
£8 8s.
Gretchen
1910 (Presumed)
Mrs H. P. Adams
1910 (Presumed)
His Majesty King George V
1913 (Presumed)
£15
Sir J. Forbes Robertson as Hamlet
1913 (Presumed)
Diana
1913 (Presumed)
Her Majesty Queen Mary
1915 (Presumed)
£12 12s.
Childhood
1915 (Presumed)
£78 15s.
Statuette
1907 (Presumed) - 1917 (Presumed)
£35
Mrs Daly
1917 (Presumed)
Head of a Child
1920 (Presumed)
£30
A Merry Man
1920 (Presumed)
£135
The Angel of Resurrection
1920 (Presumed)
Soldier of Zulu Descent
1921 (Presumed)
£15
A Study
1921 (Presumed)
£20
S. Wilding Cole, Esq.
1921 (Presumed)
Abbot Snow
1922 (Presumed)
Glyn Philpot, Esq., R.A.
1923 (Presumed)
Frank Forbes Robertson, Esq.
1923 (Presumed)
Sleeping Nereid
1925 (Presumed)
£25
Eunice
1926
Castanet Dancer
1927 (Presumed)
£18 18s.
Sir J. Forbes-Robertson
1928 (Presumed)
£100
F. Handley Page, Esq.
1929 (Presumed)
£150
Ecstasy
1929 (Presumed)
£55
Beethoven
1931 (Circa)
Nausicaa
1933
£45
A Record Breaker
1935 (Circa)
Diana
1935
The Rt Hon. Viscount Samuel, GC, GBE
1937 (Circa)
Atalanta Tying Her Sandal
1937 (Circa)
Locations
Address 4 Bramerton Street Chelsea London | View on map
1899 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Sharing this accommodation in 1901 with Thomas J Blaylock, another art student
Address 14A Cheyne Row Chelsea London | View on map
1904 (Circa) - 1943 (Circa)
Address 295 King's Road Chelsea London SW3 | View on map
1948 (Circa) - 1958 (Circa)
Studio located at Hereford Square Studios Gloucester Road London SW | View on map
1902 (Circa) - 1903 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'Robert Elliot'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1901
'The Mother'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1902
'Margery'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventieth Annual Exhibition, 1931
'Beethoven'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
'Diana'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Nausicaa'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937
'Atalanta Tying Her Sandal'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1926
'Eunice'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1929
'Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson'
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Works of Modern Artists, The Fifty-Fourth, 1899
1899
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1900 - 1958
Exhibited 34 times (31 times up to 1951), usually one, sometimes two works per year.
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1900 - 1958
Exhibited 34 times (31 times to 1951), about 50 works in all
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Fifty-Sixth, 1901
1901
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Fifty-Seventh, 1902
1902
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Professor Edward Lanteri (cat. no. 1495, plaster bust, illustrated on p. 126, not for sale).
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Fifty-Eighth, 1903
1903
Exhibited at Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the British School 1878-1903, and Sculpture (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1903
September 1903
Pibworth exhibited three sculptures (undated).
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Fifty-Ninth, 1904
1904
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Sixty-Second, 1907
1907
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Sixty-Fifth, 1910
1910
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Sixty-Eighth, 1913
1913
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Seventieth, 1915
1915
Exhibited at The Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1917
1917
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1920
1920
Exhibited at The Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1921
1921
Exhibited at The Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1922
1922
Exhibited at The Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1923-4
2 October 1923 - 2 February 1924
Exhibited at The Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925-1926
2 November 1925 - 6 February 1925
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1926 - 1948
Exhibited 3 times (an average of two works per show)
Exhibited at The Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1927-1928
31 October 1927 - 4 February 1928
Exhibited at The Eighty-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1928-1829
29 October 1928 - 2 February 1929
Exhibited at The Eighty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1929-1930
4 November 1929 - 8 February 1930
Speaker at Flaxman (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of The Royal West of England Academy
1904 (Circa) - 1907
Listed specifically as Associate member 'Sculpture' (1907)
Invited to join Royal Society of British Sculptors
2 March 1905 - 3 April 1905
Amongst the suggested second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]: but name removed from list following further discussion at next meeting [3 April 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1907 - 1936 (Circa)
'Name was retained on the Roll of Members without the usual priviledges of members until at least 1939' [List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors].
Member of Art Workers Guild
November 1910 - 1937
Resigned 1937.
Professional member of The Royal West of England Academy
1910 (Circa) - 1930
Listed as Professional Member 'Sculpture'
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1899 (Presumed) - 1902 (Presumed)
Pibworth was awarded a first prize silver medal for a model of a statue or group, in 1899. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1899', (1900), p. 36. In 1900, he won a second prize of £10 for a model of a design, and a second prize of £20 for a set of four models of a figure from the life (a competition open to male students only). See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1900', (1901), p. 30. Pibworth was awarded a Landseer Scholarship for sculpture in 1901. See 'Annual Report, 1901', (1902), p. 31. The following year he won a silver medal for a model of a design containing figure and ornament. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1902', (1903), p. 27.
Teacher at Camberwell School of Art
September 1903 - June 1917
Listed as a teacher of evening classes in modelling design.
From 1913 onwards Pibworth is listed as a teacher of day classes in modelling and evening classes in modelling from life. He is last listed in the 1916-1917 prospectus.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Frederick William Pomeroy
12 March 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconded by William Hamo Thornycroft
12 March 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume IV, 1909 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a sculptor and medallist. Member of the Society of Medallists, London. Produced portrait medallions (undated in source). See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), pp. 505-506.
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Art Teacher (Drawing and Modelling)'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Art Student'
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Nineteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1926
November 1926
p. 81
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twentieth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1929
November 1929
p. 69
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-first Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1931
November 1931
p. 69
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-second Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
November 1933
p. 79
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-Third Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1935
November 1935
p. 70
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1910, p.8; 1911, p.25; 1912, p.25.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1927, p.4.
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Catalogue for the Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925
1925
Catalogue for the Eighty-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1926
1926
Catalogue for the Eighty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1929
1929
Catalogue for the Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1927
1927
Catalogue for the Eighty-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1928
1928
Catalogue for the Seventieth Exhibition of the Bristol Academy for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, 1915
1915
p.53, Exhibit No.648
Catalogue for the Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1923
1923
Catalogue for the Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1920
1920
Catalogue for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Catalogue for the Seventy-Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1924
1924
Catalogue for the Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1917
1917
Catalogue for the Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1922
1922
Catalogue for the Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1921
1921
Catalogue for the Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Catalogue of the Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the British School, 1873-1903, and Sculpture, 1903
1903
pp. 82-84.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1901
1901
Cat. No. 183, pp. 22, 63
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1902
1902
Cat. No. 476, pp. 45, 69
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 78 folio 70 page 15
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
Reference RG14PN404 RG78PN13 RD4 SD2 ED7 SN511
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Charles J Pibworth Death Registration Month/Year: 1958 Age at death (estimated): 80 Registration district: Chelsea Inferred County: London Volume: 5c Page: 325
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Charles James Pibworth
Year of Registration: 1878
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Barton Regis
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 83
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905; 3 April 1905; 12 March 1906.
The fifty-fourth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1938
1938
p.19.
The fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1937
1937
p.42.
Citing this record
'Charles James Pibworth RWA', 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/person.php?id=msib1_1218448616, accessed 29 May 2023]
