James Alexander Stevenson ARCA, FRBS

Works

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The Effort

L'Hiver

Imperator
1926 (Presumed)
£105

L'Hiver
1926 (Presumed)
£105

Locations

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Studio located at 1 St Oswald's Studios Sedlescombe Road London | View on map
1907 - 1919
Previous addresses include: 171 Finborough Road, South Kensington (1906)

Studio located at 9 Pembroke Walk Studios Kensington London | View on map
1920 (Circa) - 1937 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Ninth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1909
'The Effort'

Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Twentieth London Exhibition), 1916
'L'Hiver'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1906 - 1937
Exhibited 32 times (plus work shown posthumously in 1938).

Exhibited at Art Exhibitions of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Loan Collections at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 1926
26 July 1926 - 12 August 1926

Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1935
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 1 time: 1935 (1 work)

Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1906

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1926
Became fellow in 1926.

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1926 - 1937
Died in 1937.

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1909 - 1937

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1926 - 1936
Served as a member of the Council from 1926 to 1927, and from 1929 onwards.

Teacher of modeling at Polytechnic School of Art, Regent Street
September 1912 (Presumed) - July 1914 (Presumed)
Not listed in 1910-1911. Listed as a teacher of modelling from 1912-1913 onwards. Stevenson is not listed in the 1916-1917 prospectus and there is no avaliable prospectus for the sessions 1914-1915 and 1915-1916.

Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1925, 1933 and 1935.

Personal and Professional Connections

Nominated by Edouard Lanteri
7 December 1908
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors [7 December 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].

Nominated by (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
14 July 1925
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Goscombe John
14 July 1925
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Henry Alfred Pegram
14 July 1925
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Edwin Landseer Lutyens
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Sydney Lee
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Leonard Campbell Taylor
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Alfred Turner
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by George Spencer Watson
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Reginald Theodore Blomfield
21 October 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominator of Harold Brownsword
1926 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of William Charles Holland King
1926
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Maggie Richardson Mitchell
1927 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Seconded by Francis Derwent Wood
7 December 1908
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors [7 December 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors 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 VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor based in London. Forrer notes that the artist exhibited a bronze portrait relief at the Royal Academy, London, in 1916. See vol. 8, (1930), p. 222.

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor'

Sources

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Ninth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1909
p.40.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1906, 1907 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1907
p. 34.

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 VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1930
p. 222.

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, 1916, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W. (Twentieth London Exhibition)
1916
p.58.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN328 RG78PN10 RD3 SD4 ED25 SN117

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: James Alexander Stevenson Probate Date: 16 Nov 1937 Death Date: 5 Oct 1937 Death Place: Middlesex, England Registry: London

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. VI SHERR-ZUL
1982
p. 77-9

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.233.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1926, to be Presented at the Twenty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1927
February 1927
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1928, to be Presented at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary General Meeting, 1929
March 1929
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1929, to be Presented at the Twenty-Sixth Ordinary General Meeting, 1930
March 1930
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1930, to be Presented at the Twenty-Seventh Ordinary General Meeting, 1931
March 1931
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1931, to be Presented at the Twenty-Eighth Ordinary General Meeting, 1932
March 1932
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1932, to be Presented at the Twenty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting, 1933
March 1933
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1933, to be Presented at the Thirteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1934
March 1934
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1934, to be Presented at the Thirty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1935
March 1935
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1935, to be Presented at the Thirty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1936
March 1936
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1936, to be Presented at the Thirty-Third Ordinary General Meeting, 1937
March 1937
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
7 December 1908.

The Polytechnic Education Department. Prospectuses, Session 1912-1913 Regent Street Polytechnic
1912
p. 23.

The Polytechnic Education Department. Prospectuses, Session 1913-1914 Regent Street Polytechnic
1913
p. 20.

The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Catalogue of the Art Loan Exhibition 1926
1926

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 4, R-Z
1991
p.250

The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Saturday, Oct 09, 1937; pg. 15; Issue 47811; col C Deaths Category: Deaths