Charles Robert Ashbee

Works

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Designed The Craft of the Guild

Made The Craft of the Guild
Together with Hardiman.

Designed Grandfather's Clock

Painted Grandfather's Clock

Gessoed Grandfather's Clock

The Glossop Mace: a lady's swimming trophy

Reredos for Calne Church, Wilts

Full-size photograph of the altar cross for Lichfield Cathedral

Plaque (Fruit Border)

Locations

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Address 34 Commercial Street London | View on map
1889 (Presumed)
This address (The Guild and School of handicraft) given in 1889 ACES catalogue.

Address 37 Cheyne Walk Chelsea London SW | View on map
1894 (Presumed) - 1920 (Presumed)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Ninth Exhibition, 1910
'The Glossop Mace: a lady's swimming trophy'

Exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery, Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, 1895
'Plaque (Fruit Border)'

Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905

Participant in Gold Beating and the Use of Gold Leaf (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1938

Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1937

Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1939

Speaker at Setting of Gems and Enamels (Art Workers Guild), 1894

Speaker at English Original Line Engraving (Art Workers Guild), 1934

Speaker at Federated Workshops (Art Workers Guild), 1917

Speaker at Foreign Influences in Modern Architecture (Art Workers Guild), 1927

Speaker at Gainsborough (Art Workers Guild), 1929
pp. 169-70

Speaker at Gothic Figure Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1930

Speaker at Inigo Jones (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Is there a Philosophy of Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1934

Speaker at Italian Romanesque Churches (Art Workers Guild), 1933

Speaker at Lighting (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Medieval English Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1933

Speaker at Monuments Worthy and Unworthy (Art Workers Guild), 1933

Speaker at Opportunities overlooked by the artist (Art Workers Guild), 1937

Speaker at Persian Art (Art Workers Guild), 1925

Speaker at Reversal of Architectural Judgements in our Lifetime (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Ruskin Reconsidered (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Substitutes in the Crafts (Art Workers Guild), 1925

Speaker at That Art Schools should be Abolished (Art Workers Guild), 1926

Speaker at The Architect's Contribution to the Thought of His Times (Art Workers Guild), 1934

Speaker at The Art of Islam (Art Workers Guild), 1926

Speaker at The Darlington Hall Experiment (Art Workers Guild), 1937

Speaker at The Functions of Art Criticism (Art Workers Guild), 1934

Speaker at The Ideal Museum (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at The National Portrait Gallery and its Future (Art Workers Guild), 1925

Speaker at The Relation of our Decorative Crafts to Present-day Tendencies in Architecture (Art Workers Guild), 1932

Speaker at The Street: Architecture and Lighting (Art Workers Guild), 1933

Speaker at Timber Construction of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries (Art Workers Guild), 1933

Speaker at Twenty-five Years of the National Art Collections Fund (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Where and when a handicraft expires so also the quality of machine production in that country fails (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Daumier (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at Chinese Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at The Law and the Artist (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at Chinese Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at Chinese Architecture (Art Workers Guild), 1931

Speaker at Architecture Today and Tomorrow (Art Workers Guild), 1931

Speaker at Bridges (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Beginnings of Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1926

Speaker at Colour in our Craft (Art Workers Guild), 1930

Speaker at Charles Keene (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Costume

Speaker at Animals in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Brancusi and Abstractionist Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Carpeaux and His Times (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at American Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1935

Speaker at Artistic Collapse in the Reign of Victoria (Art Workers Guild), 1935

Speaker at Buildings preserved by the National Trust (Art Workers Guild), 1936

Institutional and Business Connections

Founder of The Guild of Handicraft
1888

Master of Art Workers Guild
1929

Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1894 (Presumed) - 1920 (Presumed)

Member of Art Workers Guild
1897 - 1942 (Presumed)
Member of committee from 1927-1928

Personal and Professional Connections

Collaborated with William Hardiman
On \'The Craft of the Guild\' in 1889 ACES exhibition.

Collaborated with John Kirsten (Jack) Baily

Collaborated with George Hart

Collaborated with G.E. Horwood

Sat for bust by Allan Gairdner Wyon
1933 (Presumed)
Presented to AWG in 1933 to add to collection of Past-Master portraits [AWG annual report for 1933, p.8].

Worked with Alec (Alexander) Miller
1902 - 1924 (Circa)
Head of Modelling and woodcarving divison.

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
p.51.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1894, p.8.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.10.

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

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Report of Committee, Treasurer's Report and Balance Sheet, List of Members, Rules and Regulations, 1910
1910
p.19.

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Rules and List of Members, 1920
1920
p.3.

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. List of Members, 1900
1900

Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Ninth Exhibition.
1910
p.43, p.93, p.97, p.151, p.161, p.163.

Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.117,p.144,pp.146-151, p.160, p.162, p.247.

Catalogue of the Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1895
1895
Cat. No. 434, p. 161

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Alan Crawford, ‘Ashbee, Charles Robert (1863–1942)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30465, accessed 14 Aug 2009]