Ferdinand Victor Blundstone

Works

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Memorial to the late Wilmcot Clifford Pilsbury

Design for a Garden Figure

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Tiger at Bay

The age of imagination
1927

Boy with fruit
1927

Locations

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Address 20 Sutton Road Stockport Manchester | View on map
1908 (Circa)

Address 15 Douro Place Victoria Road London W | View on map
1919 (Circa) - 1939 (Circa)
Also gave his address as 15a Douro Place

Address 20 Warwick Road West Drayton London | View on map
1941 (Circa) - 1951

Studio located at 6 Clifton Hill Studios St. John's Wood London NW | View on map
1907 (Circa)

Studio located at 5 St John's Wood Studios Queen's Terrace London | View on map
1909 (Circa) - 1918 (Circa)

Studio located in Stamford Bridge Studios Wandon Road London | View on map
1903 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
'Design for a Garden Figure'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1908
Multiple works

Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition, 1907
'Jacob Wrestling with the Angel'

Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
'Tiger at Bay'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-First, 1927
'The age of imagination'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1907 - 1944
Exhibited 29 times, 37 works in all (a wide range of works from statuettes and portraits to war memorials and silver trophies)

Participant in Folkstone Memorial Competition (Folkestone Council), 1920
1920
Won the competition.

Took part in Competition for a Memorial for Animals, for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931-1932
1931
Sumbitted a design and was awarded a premium of £20.

Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1904

Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1907

Institutional and Business Connections

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

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1926 - 1951
Died in 1951.

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1919 - 1951
Died in 1951.

Member of Art Workers Guild
20 June 1924 - 1931
Retired from Guild in 1931.

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1921 - 1936
Served as a Member of the Council from 1921 to 1923, and from 1935

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1904 (Presumed) - 1907 (Presumed)
Awarded a one year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture in 1904. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1904', (1905), p. 29. The following year, he was awarded a second prize of £10 for a model of a design. See 'Annual Report, 1905', (1906), p. 32. In 1907, he won a gold medal and travelling studentship of £200, for a composition in sculpture and a one year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture. See 'Annual Report, 1907', (1908), pp. 29-30.

Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1922, 1925, 1929 and 1937.

Personal and Professional Connections

Collaborated with Herbert Thomas Dicksee
1905 (Circa)
On 'Tiger at Bay'

Nominated by Gilbert William Bayes
1919 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
1919 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by Frederick William Pomeroy
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by George James Frampton
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Henry Poole
11 April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Francis Derwent Wood
11 April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
25 January 1925
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Reginald Theodore Blomfield
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Henry Alfred Pegram
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Llewellyn
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Walter Westley Russell
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Sydney Lee
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Reid Dick
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Curtis Green
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Richard Louis Garbe
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Malcolm Osborne
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Edwin Landseer Lutyens
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Francis Dodd
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Laura Knight
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Henry George Rushbury
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William McMillan
January 1944
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
January 1944
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
January 1944
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominator of Philip Lindsey Clark
1922 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Henry (Harry) Snell Gamley
1926 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Margaret J. Wrightson
1929 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Sources

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1904, 1905 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1905
p. 29.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1905, 1906 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1906
p. 32.

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
1924, p.11; 1931, p.11.

Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.249, p.260.

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

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1908
1908
Cat. No. 484, pp. 43, 73

Catalogue of the Twenty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition, 1907
1907
Cat. No. 273, pp. 49, 52

Catalogue of the Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
1903
Cat. No. 286, pp. 46, 51

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Ferdinand V Blundstone Death Registration Month/Year: 1951 Age at death (estimated): 68 Registration district: Uxbridge Inferred County: Middlesex Volume: 5f Page: 225

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Fredinand Victor Blundstone Probate Date: 21 Jun 1951 Death Date: 5 Jan 1951 Death Place: Middlesex, England Registry: London, England

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. I A-Car
1973
p. 160

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.204.

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.17.

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 and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1921. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1921
1921
p. 3

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 31 December 1923. To be Presented at the Twentieth Ordinary General Meeting, 1924
1924
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. 2, 1913-1922
1922 (Presumed)
13 May 1919

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 1, A-D. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1990 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1990
p. 138

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. 142