Sir Charles Holroyd
Born 9 April 1861
Died 17 November 1917
Active: 1899 - 1915
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Museum director, etcher, painter, sculptor and medallist
Born Potternewton, nr Leeds. 1897-1906 first keeper of the National Gallery of British Art at Millbank (now Tate Britain). 1906-16 Director of the national Gallery (succeeded Sir Edward Poynter). Founded a collection of works by Alfred Stevens at Tate.
Wealth at death: £13,221 8s. 7d.
Probate date: 8 February 1918
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1913
'Bathsheba'
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Selection committee member of International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
21 July 1906 (Circa) - 21 July 1907 (Presumed)
Speaker at The Work of Alfred Stevens (Art Workers Guild), 1912
Speaker at Greek Drapery (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Realism in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at The Influence of Race, Climate and Diet on Artistic Expression (Art Workers Guild), 1915
Institutional and Business Connections
Master of Art Workers Guild
1905
Member of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1913 (Circa) - 1916 (Presumed)
Associate member.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist 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 II, 1904 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist, who was a member of the Society of Medallists. Exhibited numerous medals at the 1899 and 1901 Society of Medallists exhibitions. See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 558.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.10; 1912, p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1913, p.12; 1915, p.17.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, 1913, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W.
1913
p.26.
Citing this record
'Sir Charles Holroyd', 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_1204850567, accessed 31 Jan 2023]
