Holme Cardwell
Born 20 May 1813
Died 7 August 1895
Active: 1834 - 1895
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Italy
Sculptor
Born in Manchester. He attended the Royal Academy Schools in 1834 on the recommendation of Sir Francis Chantrey. Cardwell is said to have studied in Paris under David d'Angers for three years from 1841. During the late 1840s and early 1850s he worked in Manchester and London. Before 1856 he had returned to Rome where he remained and among the works he created there are an imposing tomb in the Non-Catholic Cemetery to the banker Aeneas Macbean (d.1864). This tomb is described as
"a very credible specimen of Mr Cardwell's talent" in 'Murray's Handbook' (see below). There are few details of Cardwell's later life but he appears to have been made an honorary member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in the 1890s.
This entry includes information submitted by Nicholas Stanley-Price who drew attention to the artist's birth and death dates on his gravestone and the entry to the tomb of Aeneas Macbean in 'Murray's Handbook, Rome and its environs', 13th edition (1881), pp.446-447. There is a record for Holme's gravestone at http://www.acdan.it/protcem/work/pcEN.html#Stone534 (accessed 5 January 2013).
Works
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Sabrina
1856
Exhibited this work at the Royal Academy in
Locations
Address Rome | View on map
1856 (Circa) - 1862 (Circa)
Probably lived and worked in Rome after these dates
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The International Exhibition, London, 1862
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1837 - 1856
Exhibited 4 times (once after 1851 in 1856), 7 works in all (portraits and ideal groups)
Personal and Professional Connections
Supported by Francis Legatt Chantrey
1834 (Presumed)
Cardwell entered the Royal Academy Schools on the recommendation of Chantrey
Sources
'Memorial sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome: New discoveries and an inventory of identified works'
2022
p. 195 and p. 211
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
p. 194
Catalogue of the Fifteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1897
1897
p. 1
Catalogue of the Fourteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1896
1896
p. 1
Catalogue of the Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
1901
p. 1
Catalogue of the Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
1899
p. 1
Catalogue of the Sixteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1898
1898
p. 1
International exhibition 1862, official catalogue, fine art department
1862
The Manchester Times
Art and Literary Gossip.
Manchester Times (Manchester, England), Saturday, December 13, 1862; Issue N/A.
Citing this record
'Holme Cardwell', 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=msib2_1202169359, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
