Percy George Bentham

Locations

View all on map 

Address The Studio, 8A Gunter Grove Fulham Road London | View on map
1924 - 1936 (Presumed)

Studio located at Stamford Bridge Studios Wandon Road London | View on map
1922 (Presumed) - 1924

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1929

Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1934

Speaker at Modern Architectural Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1930

Speaker at Building and Sculpture in Concrete (Art Workers Guild), 1932

Speaker at Art Workers Guild Revels, 1931

Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1932

Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1933

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1936
Died in 1936.

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1919 - 1936
Died in 1936.

Member of Art Workers Guild
10 June 1922 - 1936 (Presumed)

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1931 - 1935

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1907 (Presumed)
In 1907 Bentham was awarded a first prize of £20 and a silver medal, for a set of four models of a figure from the life. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1907', (1908), p. 29.

Personal and Professional Connections

Nominated by William Robert Colton
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by William Silver Frith
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist. Exhibited a memorial medallion at the Royal Academy, London, in 1915. See Forrer, vol. 7, (1923), p. 70.

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor & Modeller' worker

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

Sources

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1907, 1908 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1908
p. 29.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1922, p.12; 1929, p.4; 1930, p.8; 1932, p.6, p.10; 1933, p.6.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.51.

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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1923
p. 70.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 1217; Folio: 61; Page: 18

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
Class: RG14; Piece: 7037; Schedule Number: 41

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Percy George Bentham Registration Year: 1883 Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar Registration district: Fulham Inferred County: London Volume: 1a Page: 265

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
Name: Percy George Bentham Estimated Birth Year: abt 1883 Age: 26 Spouse: Ellen Celia Hobbs Spouse Age: 23 Record Type: Marriage Event Date: 29 Apr 1909 Parish: St Matthew, Willesden Borough: Brent Father Name: Joseph Frederick Bentham Spouse Father: John Kingdon Hobbs Register Type: Parish Register

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1919. To be Presented at the Sixteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1919
1919
p. 5.

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 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. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 2, 1913-1922
1922 (Presumed)
13 May 1919

The fifty-first annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1935
1935
p.6, p.30.

The fifty-second annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1936
1936
p.30.

The fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1937
1937
p.19.