Charles Leonard Hartwell RA, FRBS, RBC
Born 1 August 1873
Died 12 January 1951
Active: 1896 - 1950
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, stone carver, architectural sculptor, sculptor's assistant
Born in Blackheath, London. He was the son of Richard Pyne Hartwell (1838-1893, his middle name was also spelled Pine), a butcher. Charles studied at the South London Technical School of Art under William Silver Frith and then at the Royal Academy Schools from 1896. Hartwell also worked as an assistant to Edward Onslow Ford and William Hamo Thornycroft. Charles was related by marriage to the wood carver and teacher, John 'Jack' Linehan (born 1865, active between 1885 and 1937). Linehan married Charles' sister, Florence in 1903.
Hartwell's major commissions included the war memorial at Newcastle-on-Tyne; the Sussex Regional Memorial; the Sports Club Memorial; statues of the Bishop of Capetown and Sir Frank Swettenham; he also made the memorial tablet in Hoptowood stone and bronze to William Hamo Thornycroft in St Paul's Cathedral.
This record includes information submitted by Neil Hartwell.
Wealth at death: £24,925 11s. 7d.
Probate date: 6 April 1951
Works
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Bust of Mrs Rose Clarke Hartwell
Sirens
1910 (Presumed)
£105
The Rising Tide
1910 (Presumed)
£50
Study of a Head
1911
Mother and Child
1913 (Presumed)
£8 10s.
The Magic Call
1913 (Presumed)
£100
The gleaner
1913
The Mountain Path
1915 (Presumed)
£42
The Debutante
1916 (Presumed)
£25
Sir Frank Swettenham, GCMG
1917
The Lass of Dee
1917
Blighty
1917
The Gleaner
1919 (Presumed)
£73 10s.
The rising tide
1919
A Study
1920 (Presumed)
£100
The Bathers
1922 (Presumed)
£35
The Limit
1922 (Presumed)
£15 15s.
Study
1922
The oracle
1922
A Bad Starter
1923 (Presumed)
£40
The bathers
1924
The kelpie
1925
Echo
1926 (Presumed)
£30
The awakening
1927
The boy
1927
At close of day
1928
VC
1929
Locations
Address 4 Langton Terrace, Woodland's Road Greenwich London England | View on map
1881 (Circa) - 1891 (Circa)
Address 8 Manville Road Upper Tooting London SW England | View on map
1900 (Circa) - 1903 (Circa)
Address 26 Marney Road Clapham Common London SW England | View on map
1904 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Address 5 Westcliff Parade Westcliff Rochford England | View on map
1911
Boarding at this address with his wife, presumably on holiday
Address Boyne Cottage Aldwick Bognor Regis England | View on map
1934 (Circa) - 1951
Studio located at The Studio, 62 Acacia Road St Johns Wood London England | View on map
1910 (Circa) - 1934 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1901
'Bust of Mrs Rose Clarke Hartwell'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1907
'Mother and Child'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1908
'Mendi Girl'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'The Rising Tide'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Sixth, 1922
'The goatherd's daughter'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Third, 1929
'VC'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Seventh, 1913
'The gleaner'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-First, 1917
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Eighth, 1924
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Ninth, 1925
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-First, 1927
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Second, 1928
Multiple works
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
'Study of a Head'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1915
'The Kelpie of the Burn'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1919
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1900 - 1950
Exhibited 51 times, about 141 works in all
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
The Lass of Dee (cat. no. 1493, statuette, £18, for sale 'with copywrite [sic]', £55).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
1907
British Sculpture, Gallery II: ' The Rising Tide' (bronze statuette), p. 24 (164). Lent by the sculptor.
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Sixty-Fifth, 1910
1910
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Sixty-Eighth, 1913
1913
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Seventieth, 1915
1915
Exhibited at The Seventy-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1916
1916
Exhibited at The Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1920
1920
Exhibited at The Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1921
1921
Exhibited at The Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1922
1922
Exhibited at The Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1923-4
2 October 1923 - 2 February 1924
Exhibited at The Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925-1926
2 November 1925 - 6 February 1926
Exhibited at The Eighty-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1926-1927
1 November 1926 - 5 February 1927
Exhibition committee member for Works by the Late Sir H. Thornycroft, RA, and F. Derwent Wood, RA (Royal Academy of Arts), 1927
January 1927 - February 1927
Judged Competition for a Memorial for Animals, for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931-1932
1931
Hartwell served on the selection committee.
Officer for Competition for a Memorial in Rye Churchyard (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931
March 1931 - March
Served as one of three assessors.
Participant in Memorial to William Hamo Thornycroft (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931-1932
1931 - 24 October 1932
Designed and exected the memorial panel.
Selection committee member of Chantrey Bequest (Chantrey Fund; Royal Academy of Arts), 1875-1948
1917 - 1919
Served on the selection committee for sculpture in 1917, and in 1919 (Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1917', 1918, p. 19).
Selection committee member of The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundredth and Sixty-Fourth, 1932
5 April 1932 - 15 April 1932
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1932' (1933), p. 35.
Won prize Prize for the best work of sculpture exhibited in London
July 1929
Awarded a silver medal for his bronze group entitled 'The Goatherd's Daughter'.
Won prize Prize for the best work of sculpture exhibited in London
1936
Hartwell was awarded a silver medal for his statue of 'St George', on the Marylebone War Memorial, St John's Wood, London.
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1922 - 1928
Served on the Selection Committee (one of six elected members) in 1922. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1921', (1922), p. 31. Served on the Selection Committee (junior half of the Council) in 1926. In 1928, he served on the Schools Committee.
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
23 April 1915 - 15 July 1924
Elected RA in 1924.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
15 January 1924 - 1 January 1949
Was then Senior RA until his death in 1951. Hartwell's Diploma Work was entitled 'The Oracle' (marble head). See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1924', (1925), p. 64.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1951
Died in 1951.
Honorary treasurer of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1924 - 1936
Was temporary honorary treasurer in 1924, then honorary treasurer from 1924-1936.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1905 - 1951
Amongst the second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]. Died in 1951.
Member of Art Workers Guild
6 October 1922
Elected as 'ordinary member'.
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1919 (Presumed) - 1936
Served as a Member of the Council from 1919 to 1931. From 1925, he served as Treasurer and later became Honorary Treasurer, a position he held until 1936, when he resigned owing to illness
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1926 - 1933
Served as a Member of the Council from 1926 to 1927, and from 1932 to 1933. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1925', (1926), p. 33.
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
26 July 1898 - July 1903
These dates are given by Popp and Valentine in 'Royal Academy of Arts Directory of Membership', (1996), p. 57.
Hartwell was awarded a second prize of £20, for a set of four models from the life in 1899. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1899', (1900), p. 36. In 1902, he won a first prize of £50 for a set of four models of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1902', (1903), p. 27.
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1919 - 1929
Listed as a visitor to the School of Sculpture from 1919 to 1921, from October 1927 to June 1929. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1918', (1919), p. 30.
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant to Edward Onslow Ford
Assistant to William Hamo Thornycroft
Nominated by Thomas Brock
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominated by (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominated by George James Frampton
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominator of Alfred Frank Hardiman
1918 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
1919 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
1 March 1920 (Presumed) - 22 February 1927 (Presumed)
Two nominations for RA, in 1920 and 1927, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1922 - March 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of William McMillan
21 March 1922 (Presumed)
For RA.
Nominator of (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
25 January 1925
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Charles Sargeant Jagger
November 1925
For RA.
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ernest George Gillick
22 February 1927
For RA.
Nominator of John Tweed
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert Ledward
22 February 1927
For RA.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Charles Thomas Wheeler
1 November 1927
For RA.
Nominator of Edgar Allan Howes
1 November 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Alfred Frank Hardiman
25 April 1930
For RA.
Nominator of Charles Leighfield Jonah Doman
November 1932
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Edwin Whitney-Smith
November 1932
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Thomas Mewburn Crook
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Leonard Stanford Merrifield
November 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of James Alexander Stevenson
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.
Related to John 'Jack' Linehan
Linehan and Hartwell were brothers-in-law. Linehan married Hartwell's sister Florence (born 1872) in 1903.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Stone Carver & Sculptor' worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' employer
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1924, 1925 Royal Academy Annual Reports
20 February 1925
p. 64.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1922, p.12.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
p.35 and all annual lists of members' addresses 1922-1933.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.269.
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Catalogue for the Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925
1925
Catalogue for the Eighty-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1926
1926
Catalogue for the Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1923
1923
Catalogue for the Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1920
1920
Catalogue for the Seventy-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1916
1916
Catalogue for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Catalogue for the Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1922
1922
Catalogue for the Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1921
1921
Catalogue for the Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1901
1901
Cat. No. 432, pp. 42, 59
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1907
1907
Cat. No. 738, pp. 58, 75
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1908
1908
Cat. Nos. 359, 363, pp. 34, 81
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. Nos. 237, 244, 254, pp. 25, 26, 76
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 725; Folio: 42; Page: 30; GSU roll: 1341169
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 512; Folio: 130; Page: 20; GSU Roll: 6095622
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 472; Folio: 70; Page: 45
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN10127 RG78PN533A RD195 SD2 ED15 SN84
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Charles Leonard Hartwell
Probate Date: 6 Apr 1951
Death Date: 12 Jan 1951
Death Place: Sussex, England
Registry: London, England
International Exhibition, Dublin 1907, Fine Art Catalogue
1907
British Sculpture, Gallery II:
p. 24, no. 164:' The Rising Tide'. Bronze Statuette.
Lent by the sculptor.
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
Name: Charles Leonard Hartwell
Estimated birth year: abt 1874
Age: 30
Spouse Name: Nellie Mary Woodhams
Spouse Age: 27
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 30 Mar 1904
Parish: Upper Tooting Holy Trinity
Borough: Wandsworth
Father Name: Richard Pyne Hartwell
Spouse Father: Henry Woodhams
Register Type: Parish Register
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.7, p.107, p.149, p.161, p.201, p.204, p.206.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.15, pp.18-19, pp.33-34, p.41, p.61, p.70, p.79, p.119, p.141, pp.143-144, p.164.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1922. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1923
26 February 1923
p. 1
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
pp. 2, 12
The fifty-first annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1935
1935
p.35.
The sixty-eighth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1951
1951
Notice of death.
The sixty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1950
1950
p.20.
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Tuesday, Jan 16, 1951; pg. 7; Issue 51900; col A
Mr. C. Hartwell An Academic Sculptor
Category: Obituaries
Citing this record
'Charles Leonard Hartwell RA, FRBS, RBC', 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_1207262038, accessed 27 Sep 2023]
