Geraldine Blake (Thomas)
Other names: Mrs. E.H.L. Thomas
Born 1876
Active: 1901 - 1919
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Thurston, Suffolk. She was the daughter of George Blake (born c.1836), a retired army captain probably of independent means. Geraldine was studying art in London around 1901.
Works
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'They also serve who only stand and wait'
Dispatches
1918 (Presumed)
£85
Robert, 1st Lord Clive, founder of the British Empire in India
1918 (Presumed)
£80
Locations
Address 72 Scarsdale Villas Kensington London W England | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Class: RG11; Piece: 24; Folio: 20; Page: 35; GSU roll: 1341005
Address Ladies Rest (?) Club 52 Lower Sloane Street London England | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Address Hewitts Willesborough Ashford England | View on map
1906 (Circa)
Address West Lodge Ripon England | View on map
1912 (Circa)
Address Eaton House Hereford England | View on map
1918 (Circa) - 1919 (Circa)
c/o Miss King King (?) in 1918
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1906 - 1919
Exhibited 3 times, three works in all (1906 cat. no. 1706 'The Stockrider' equestrian statuette; 1912 cat. no. 1550 Robert 1st Lord Clive, founder of the British Empire in India, equestrian statuette; 1919 cat. no. 1575 'Disptaches' equestrian portrait statuette, bronze). She showed as Geraldine Blake in 1906 and Mrs Thomas in 1912 and 1919.
Exhibited at The Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Twenty-fifth London Exhibition), 1919
1919
'They also serve who only stand and wait'
Sources
Catalogue for the Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 24; Folio: 20; Page: 35; GSU roll: 1341005
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 77 folio 24 page 40
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Geraldine Blake
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1876
Registration district: Stow
Inferred County: Suffolk
Volume: 4a
Page: 571
Citing this record
'Geraldine Blake (Thomas)', 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_1219309640, accessed 24 Sep 2023]