Charles Beacon
Born 1870 (Circa)
Died 1929
Active: 1897 - 1912
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Sculptor
Works
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Bas-relief of Miss Lucy Slade Jones
Orpheus
1900 (Circa)
Bear Cub
1900 (Circa)
Tiger Cub
1900 (Circa)
Sketch for Garden
1911 (Circa)
Locations
Address 7 Albert Place Kensington London | View on map
1906 - 1912
Address The Hut Finch Lane Bushey | View on map
1913 - 1928 (Presumed)
Studio located at 4 Wentworth Studios Manresa Road London SW | View on map
1899 (Circa) - 1908 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'Bas-relief of Miss Lucy Slade Jones'
Exhibited at Exhibition of International Art (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1898
Multiple works
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
'Sketch for Garden'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1900
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1902
'Lioness Burying its Prey'
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1897 - 1900
Exhibited 3 times, 1 work per year.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1897
1897
Panthers Fighting (cat. no. 1336, group in wax, illustrated on p. 114, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Orpheus (cat. no. 1444, relief, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
Elephant and Serpent (cat. no. 1412, bronze group, not for sale).
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of Art Workers Guild
May 1898 - 1928
Resigned from the Guild in 1928.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 1920 (Circa)
Note that Beacon resigned in 1917 whilst he was serving in the army [Minute Book No. 2, 16 October, 1917].
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1895 (Presumed) - 1896 (Presumed)
Awarded a first prize of £30 for a model of a design, and a second prize of £20 for a set of three models of a figure from the life, in 1895. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1895', (1896), p. 28. In 1896, he won a £50 first prize and silver medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1896', (1897), p. 34.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by William Hamo Thornycroft
4 December 1905
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconded by Frank Lynn Jenkins
4 December 1905
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Eleventh Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1902
October 1902
p. 48
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Tenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1900
October 1900
p. 50
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1898, p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.10.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1928, p.11.
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-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh, 1897 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1897
pp. 44-47.
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
4 December 1905.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 2, 1913-1922
1922 (Presumed)
16 October 1917
Citing this record
'Charles Beacon', 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_1203116625, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
