Alfred William Bowcher

Works

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Pencil sketch for statuettes

Sketches in plaster for terra cotta statue on St Vincent Street Buildings, Glasgow

Sketch for decorative statuette

Pencil drawing of terracotta statues on St Vincent Street Buildings, Glasgow

Designed Italian frieze in patent fibrous plaster

Model for terra cotta panel

Jesse Collings, Esq., MP
1889

Locations

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Address 6 Woodstock Terrace Hornsey London | View on map
1881 (Circa)

Studio located at Oakley Cottage Studio Chelsea London | View on map
1886 (Circa) - 1890 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Second Exhibition, 1889
'Model for terra cotta panel'

Exhibited at The Sixty-Third Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society Artists), 1889
'Jesse Collings, Esq., MP'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1886 - 1889
Exhibited 4 times, average 2 works per year.

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the nineteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1889
1889
Hermes (cat. no. 1507, plaster bust, £7 7s.); Sylph (cat. no. 1557, £30).

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate of George Jackson and Sons

Member of Art Workers Guild
1889 - 1890
Retired from Guild in 1890.

Personal and Professional Connections

Brother/sibling of Frank Bowcher

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1890 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1890
p.1997

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Art Student' also his brother, Frank and his father, William, was 'Artist Draughtsman on wood'

Sources

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1890, p.6. Notice of death.

Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.163, p.194, p.196, p.198, p.206.

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

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 1376 folio 56 page 105

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Alfred William Bowcher Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863 Year of Registration: 1890 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec Age at Death: 27 District: Edmonton County: Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex Volume: 3a Page: 166

Post Office London Directory, 1890 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1890
p.1997

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Sixty-Third Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1889
1889
p. 62.

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 1: Abbayne to Carrington
1905
p.255