Richard Reginald Goulden
Born 1 October 1876
Died 6 August 1932
Active: 1901 - 1932
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Dover, Kent. He was the son of John James Goulden, a former journeyman cabinet-maker who set up a bookselling, stationery, and printing business in Dover in 1865, later establishing a branch in Folkestone. Richard was educated at Dover College and then Dover School of Art. He won a Royal Exhibition Scholarship to the National Art Training School (Royal College of Art), London where he studied architecture and then sculpture, for which he was awarded a travelling scholarship. Afterwards, Goulden worked as a teacher from about 1900-1911.
During the First World War, he served with the Royal Engineers in France. Goulden was mentioned in dispatches and achieved the temporary rank of captain. In1916 he was injured and thereafter served in Brightlingsea and London. After demobilization in July 1919 Goulden executed a large number of war memorials including ones at: Kingston-on-Thames; Gateshead; Reigate; Dover; Redhill; St John’s Church, Hackney; the Middlesex Guildhall War Memorial; the Bank of England; Bromsgrove; Surbiton; St Michael, Cornhill; Crompton; and the Royal Army Medical Corps memorial at Millbank.
He married Muriel Gant (born c.1883 in Redhill, Surrey), a water colourist and illustrator who founded the Chelsea illustrators, whose members included the creator of the Little Grey Rabbit series of children's books, Margaret Tempest. He died in Sussex.
There are further details about his career at: http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Information/NowandThen/The%20Exhibition/casualty%20images/The%20Sculptor.htm (accessed 24 June 2011)
Wealth at death: £2,616 17s. 9d.
Probate date: 5 November 1932
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.
Flight of the Spirit
1911 (Circa)
Locations
Address 10 St Martin's Place Dover | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Address 80 Church Street Chelsea London | View on map
1903 (Circa)
Address 54 Lamont Road London | View on map
1906 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)
Address 426 Fulham Road London | View on map
1909 (Circa) - 1932
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1903 - 1932
Exhibited 16 times, twenty-six works in all (portraits, medallions, statuettes, models for memorials and decorative schemes)
Speaker at Indian Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Flower Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at The Relation of the Arts to Literature (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Can Photography ever be an Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Traditional Treatment of Subject in Italian Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Fundamental Unity of Aim in the Various Arts (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Italian Gardens (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Origins of Portrait Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Speaker at Rodin (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Speaker at Bronze Casting (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Chinese Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1932
Died in 1932.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 1932
Died in 1932.
Member of Art Workers Guild
May 1912 - 1932
Committee member 1928-1930.
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1919 (Presumed) - 1926
Served as a Member of the Council from 1919 to 1921, and from 1924 to 1926
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Edouard Lanteri
5 November 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconded by (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
5 November 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Art Teacher School' worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor (Artist) visiting teacher (art), London C[ounty] Council' and his wife Muriel 'Painter & Designer visiting teacher (art), London C[ounty] Council'
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1912, p.8.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1913, p.40; 1925, p.5, pp.7-8; 1926, pp.4-5; 1927, p.4, p.6; 1928, pp.8-9; 1929, p.6; 1932, p.15, p.30.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 841; Folio: 31; Page: 54.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN336 RG78PN10 RD3 SD4 ED33 SN36
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Richard Reginald Goulden
Oct-Nov-Dec 1876
Dover, Kent.
Vol. 2a Page 927
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Richard Reginald Goulden
Probate Date: 5 Nov 1932
Death Date: 6 Aug 1932
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
5 November 1906.
Citing this record
'Richard Reginald Goulden', 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_1207251763, accessed 23 Mar 2023]
