John Henry Monsell Furse

Works

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Horse

Cock and Snake

Bishop Abraham

Mrs Arthur Pollen

Study of a Man's Head

Study of a Girl's Head

Lioness and Cubs

Eagle and Hare

Boy and Greyhound

Bishop Abraham

Mrs Henry Newbolt

Tigress and Wild Boar

Horses Playing

Mrs David Henderson

Mrs Arthur Pollen

Celia

Bust of Mrs Arthur Pollen

Mrs David Henderson

Lion and Buck

Tiger and Deer

Miss Celia Newbolt

Tigress and Wild Boar

Lioness and Cubs
1901

Pumas and Turkey
1901

Mrs David Henderson
1901

Study of a Man's Head
1901

The Solitary
1903

Tigress and Wild Boar
1903

Locations

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Address Heathbourne Cottage Bushey Heath | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1894 (Circa)

Address 1 Abbey Gardens Westminster London | View on map
1896 (Circa) - 1899 (Circa)

Address Herden House Eastry | View on map
1897 (Circa) - 1898 (Circa)

Address 5 Finborough Road London SW | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1904 (Circa)

Address Netherhampton House Netherhampton Salisbury | View on map
1905 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)

Studio located at 5 The Avenue, 76 Fulham Road London | View on map
1899 (Presumed) - 1904 (Presumed)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'Study of a Girl's Head'

Exhibited at Exhibition of International Art (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1898
'Eagle and Hare'

Exhibited at Fifth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1905
Multiple works

Exhibited at Sixth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1906
'Mrs Henry Newbolt'

Exhibited at Seventh Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1907
Multiple works

Exhibited at Exhibition of Fair Women (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1908
Multiple works

Exhibited at Exhibition of Fair Women (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1909
Multiple works

Exhibited at Exhibition of Fair Women (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1910
'Miss Celia Newbolt'

Exhibited at Eighth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1908
'Mrs David Henderson'

Exhibited at Ninth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1909
Multiple works

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'Horse'

Exhibited at The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Exhibition (Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery), 1905
'Bishop Abraham'

Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Eighteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1900
'Mrs Arthur Pollen'

Exhibited at Forty-Second Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1903
'Tigress and Wild Boar'

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1892
1892
An Irish Wolfhound (cat. no. 1333, plaster £5, bronze £18 18s.).

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1892 - 1907
Exhibited 12 times, usually one or two works per year.

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
A Cat (cat. no. 1170, statuette, part of an Andiron, in plaster £5 5s., in bronze £15 15s.); The Annunciation (cat. no. 1229, low relief, in plaster £5 5s., in bronze £15 15s.).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fourth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1894
1894
Lioness and Cub (cat. no. 1316, bronze relief, not for sale); Lioness and Cubs (cat. no. 1329, in bronze £40, in plaster £20).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Cock and Snake (cat. no. 1470, bronze group, £126); Lord Nelson (cat. no. 1503, bronze statuette, £36 15s.).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
Mrs David Henderson (cat. no. 1414, not for sale).

Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
The Leopard Tamer (cat. no. 1636, plaster group, not for sale).

Exhibited at International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Exhibition (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1906
1906
Furse exhibited three sculptures (undated).

Speaker at The Beginning of Art Societies and their Values To-day (Art Workers Guild), 1936

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1906 (Presumed)

Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1893 - 1899 (Presumed)
Elected in 1893.

Member of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1899 - 1915
Executive Member 1899, associate member 1905-1909, member of council 1910, associate member 1913 - 1915.

Member of Art Workers Guild
May 1903 - 1904
resigned 1904.

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1905 - 1914
Amongst the second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].

Nominee of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1893
Membership proposed by George Frampton and seconded by Conrad Dressler.

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Art Student' listed as employing a nursemaid, cook and kitchenmaid

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' working on own account

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' working on own account at home

Sources

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Fifth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1905
p.40.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Fourth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1904
1904
p.36.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Ninth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1909
p.39, p.46.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1899
1899
p.34, p.38.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Seventh Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1907
p.36.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Sixth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1906
1906
p.11, p.15.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures in the Eighth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1908
p.38, p.43.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures in the Exhibition of Fair Women 1910 arranged by the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1910
p.26.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures in the Exhibition of Fair Women arranged by the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1908
p.15.

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures in the Exhibition of Fair Women arranged by the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1909
1909
p.43.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1903, p.6, p.23.

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1894
1894

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1897
1897

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. List of Members, 1898
1898

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. List of Members, 1899
1899

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first, 1901 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1901
p. 49

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fourth, 1894 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1894
pp. 49-52.

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-second, 1892 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1892
p. 47

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third, 1893 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1893
pp. 42-45.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.55.

Catalogue of the Eighteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1900
1900
Cat. No. 249, pp. 45, 50

Catalogue of the Exhibition of International Art of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1898
1898
p.44-5.

Catalogue of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers' Exhibition, Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, 1905
1905
Cat. No. 318, pp. 4, 46, 55

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. Nos. 533, 535, pp. 47, 74

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 1117 folio 150 page 8

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 36 folio 172 page 26

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN12121 RG78PN680 RD254 SD1 ED3 SN16

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: John H M Furse Death Registration Month/Year: 1950 Age at death (estimated): 90 Registration district: Bideford Inferred County: Devonshire Volume: 7a Page: 301

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Registered between April and June; District: Windsor; County: Berkshire, Surrey; Volume: 2c; Page: 359

Four voting papers for election of members and of committee at annual meeting, 19th December 1893
1893

International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901, Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901

International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Exhibition, 1906
1906
p. 27.

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol III E-Har
1978
p. 121

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905.

The fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1937
1937
p.12.

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 3: Eadie to Harraden
1905
p. 183

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 2, E-K. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1991 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1991
p. 86