Walter Crane RI, ARWS
Born 15 August 1845
Died 14 March 1915
Active: 1888 - 1910
Painter, illustrator, designer, gesso worker, sculptor, educator
Born at at 12 Maryland Street, Liverpool. Died at died at Horsham Cottage Hospital, in Sussex.
Wealth at death: £3,119 8s. 3d.
Probate date: 18 May 1915
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Designed Arts and Crafts
Cast Arts and Crafts
In collaboration with William Flavett.
Designed Peacock and Crane
Designed Monkey and Dolphin
Designed Fox and Crane
Also coloured by Crane.
Designed The Lion in Love
Designed The North Wind, the Sun and the Traveller
also coloured with lacquers by Crane
Finished Models in gesso duro for Bell Plate, Door handles and Key Escutcheons
figures finished by Crane
Designed Models in gesso duro for Bell Plate, Door handles and Key Escutcheons
Frieze and panels for fireplace
Models in gesso duro for finger plates
Designed Il Penseroso
Modelled Il Penseroso
Designed Calligrapher and Miniaturist
Designed An interlude
Modelled An interlude
together with Weeks
Designed The Printing Press
Designed L'Allegro
Modelled L'Allegro
Together with Weeks.
Modelled The Rivals
Together with Weeks.
Designed The Rivals
Designed The Fountain
Designed Children and goat
taken from design by Crane
Designed The Genius of Mechanical Invention uniting Commerce and Agriculture
Modelled The Genius of Mechanical Invention uniting Commerce and Agriculture
Contributed to The Genius of Mechanical Invention uniting Commerce and Agriculture
Coloured the work.
Designed The Genius of Electricity uniting the Quarters of the Globe
Modelled The Genius of Electricity uniting the Quarters of the Globe
Sketch Design for a Municipal Mace for Manchester
The Printing Press
1890 (Presumed)
Il Penseroso
1890 (Presumed)
Tête-à-Tête
1890 (Presumed)
The Fountain
1890 (Presumed)
The Fountain
1890 (Presumed)
A Sea Maid
1890 (Presumed)
The Dance
1890 (Presumed)
An Interlude
1890 (Presumed)
Thought Reading
1890 (Presumed)
Locations
Address Beaumont Lodge Shepherd's Bush London | View on map
1889 (Presumed)
Address 13 Holland Street Kensington London | View on map
1899 (Presumed) - 1910 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
'St George and Dragon'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Sixth Exhibition, 1899
'Two Bronze Plaster Panels'
Exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery, Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, 1895
Multiple works
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Exhibited at South Wales Art Society 3rd Annual Exhibition, 1890
1890
Speaker at Outlines and Values (Art Workers Guild), 1887
Speaker at New Delhi and the Future of the Arts in India (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Institutional and Business Connections
Designed for Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1867 (Circa) - 1888 (Circa)
See Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 103.
See various photographs in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive database of designs, primarily for Queen's Ware vase decoration, by Crane from c. 1860-1869.
See also various letters between Crane and Wedgwood from c. 1867 t0 1871, relating to the decoration of vases, etching, modelling, etc. [The Wedgwood Manuscripts, reference number E31-23877-23891].
Designed for Minton and Company
1870 (Circa)
See Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 103.
Directed Manchester School of Art
1894
Donor to Art Workers Guild
1888
Gave a plaster frieze and a modelled representation of the badge of the guild.
Master of Art Workers Guild
1888 - 1889
President of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1888 - 1910 (Presumed)
In 1889 the Honorary Secretary was Ernest Radford
Principal of Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1898 - 1899
See the 1898 National Art Training School 'Prospectus'.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with William Flavell
On 'Il Penseroso', "An Interlude" and "L'Allegro" in the 1889 ACES exhibition.
Collaborated with William Flavett
1888 (Presumed)
On "Arts and Crafts" in the 1888 exhibition of the ACES.
Collaborated with Osmund Weeks
1888 (Presumed) - 1889 (Presumed)
On various submissions to the 1888 and 1889 exhibitions of the ACES (see indivudal object entries for those events), occasionally with the collaboration of Flavell.
Collaborated with Henry Priestly
1899 (Circa)
Publications
Author of Memorandum upon the Royal College of Art Prepared by the Council of Art and Submitted to the Board of Education, 1900
1900
p. 7.
Contributed to Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1895
Wrote an essay for the catalogue, pp. viii-xi
Sources
A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
1911
pp.26-28, p.30, p.73, pp.76-77, p.112, p.130, p.141, p.148; also jewellery items in cases [unable to est.ablish page number].
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
Amongst other references: 1887, p.4; 1888, p.4, 1894, p.22.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.9.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1913, p.13.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Its History and Achivements
1938 (Probable)
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, 1904
1904
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1907
1907
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Papers relating to the founding of the Society
1888 (Circa)
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. List of Members, 1898
1898
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. List of Members, 1899
1899
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. List of Members, 1900
1900
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
pp.33-50.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the First Exhibition.
1888
p.97, p.99, p.106, pp.109-110, p.126, pp.130-134, pp.136-139, p.150, p.158, p.162, p.169, pp.170-172. Please note that not all of Crane's exhibits are recorded on this database.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
pp.120-122, p.131, p.135, p.136, p.162, p.165, p.188, p.191, pp.197-198, pp.201-202, pp.225-227, p.230.
Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1895
1895
Cat. No. 232, pp. viii-xi, 88, 89, 254
Four voting papers for election of members and of committee at annual meeting, 19th December 1893
1893
Letters between Walter Crane and Wedgwood, c. 1867-1871
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Alan Crawford, ‘Crane, Walter (1845–1915)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32616, accessed 5 Sept 2010]
Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1939-1940 Royal College of Art
1939
p. 36.
South Wales Art Society 3rd Annual Exhibition Catalogue.
1890
The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
pp. 103-104.
The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See various photographs in the database of designs, primarily for vase decoration, by Crane from c. 1860-1869.
Citing this record
'Walter Crane RI, ARWS', 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_1206053135, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
