Frederick Brook Hitch ARCA

Works

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John Oliver Brook
1907 (Presumed)

Œnone
1907 (Presumed)

'Memories', Wordsworth
8 June 1908 (Presumed)

Electia
25 May 1909 (Presumed)
£40

Locations

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Address 60 Harleyford Road Lambeth London | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1913
Used his father's address intermittently after having set up his own studio in London and then Hertfordshire

Address Broadmeadow House Musley Ware | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1917 (Circa)

Address 65 Glebe Place Chelsea London | View on map
1911 (Circa)
At 65a Glebe Place

Address Allestree 20 Highfield Road Hertford | View on map
1920 (Presumed) - 1957

Studio located at 2 Justice Studios Justice Walk London | View on map
1907 - 1911

Studio located at 1 St John's Wood Studios Queen's Terrace London NW8 | View on map
1924 (Circa) - 1934 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1906 - 1947
Exhibited 19 times, 22 works in all

Exhibited at Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition, 1907
20 May 1907 - 28 September 1907

Exhibited at Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1908
8 June 1908 - 26 September 1908

Exhibited at Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1909
31 May 1909 - 25 September 1909
£40

Speaker at The National Portrait Gallery and its Future (Art Workers Guild), 1925

Took part in Competition for a Memorial for Animals, for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931-1932
1931 - 10 November 1932
Hitch won the competition. He was awarded a premium of £40, and £500 for the commission.

Institutional and Business Connections

Associated with Royal Cambrian Academy of Art
1908 - 1913
Hitch was listed as an associate of the RCA between 1908-1913.

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1957
Died in 1957.

Member of Chelsea Arts Club

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1908 - 1957
Hitch was awarded the 'order of the Rose Smith Memorial for Australia' in c. 1924. See 'Annual Report, 1924', (1925), p. 6.

Member of Art Workers Guild
November 1909 - 1957

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1928 - 1945
Served as a member of the Council from 1928 to 1935, from 1938 to 1940, and from 1943

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1902 (Presumed) - 1904 (Presumed)
In 1902, Hitch was awarded a second prize for a model of a design, and a second prize for a model of statue or group. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1902', (1903), p. 27. In 1904, he won a second prize for a set of four models of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1904', (1905), p. 28.

Personal and Professional Connections

Daughter/son/child of Nathaniel Hitch

Nominated by William Hamo Thornycroft
13 May 1907
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Seconded by Arthur George Walker
13 May 1907
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Descriptions of Practice

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

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' working on own account

Sources

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1902, 1903 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1903
p. 27.

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. 28.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1909, p.6, p.20; 1910, p.23; 1911, p.23; 1912, p.23.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1920, p.7; 1933, p.35.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.56.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 414; Folio: 38; Page: 7.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN7481 RG78PN363 RD133 SD3 ED5 SN261

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Frederick B Hitch Death Registration Month/Year: 1957 Age at death (estimated): 79 Registration district: Hertford Inferred County: Hertfordshire Volume: 4b Page: 73

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Frederick Brook Hitch Probate Date: 15 Aug 1957 Registry: London, England Death Date: 30 Apr 1957 Death Place: Hertford, 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. IV Hart-Lawl
1979
p. 56

Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Thirtieth Annual Exhibition
1912

Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Thirty-First Annual Exhibition
1913

Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition
1910

Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition
1907

Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Twenty-Seventh Annual Exhibition
1909

Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition
1908

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts for the Year Ending the 31 December 1924. To be Presented at the Twenty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1925
1925
p. 6.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1928, to be Presented at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary General Meeting, 1929
March 1929
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1929, to be Presented at the Twenty-Sixth Ordinary General Meeting, 1930
March 1930
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1930, to be Presented at the Twenty-Seventh Ordinary General Meeting, 1931
March 1931
p. 2.

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 1933, to be Presented at the Thirteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1934
March 1934
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. 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. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1938, to be Presented at the Thirty-Fifth Ordinary General Meeting, 1939
March 1939
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1939, to be Presented at the Thirty-Sixth Ordinary General Meeting, 1940
March 1940
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1940, to be Presented at the Thirty-Seventh Ordinary General Meeting, 1941
March 1941
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1943, to be Presented at the Fortieth Ordinary General Meeting, 1944
March 1944
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1944, to be Presented at the Forty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1945
March 1945
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1945, to be Presented at the Forty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1946
March 1946
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
13 May 1907.

The sixty-eighth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1951
1951
p.20

Who was Who
December 2007
‘HITCH, Frederick Brook’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U238632, accessed 13 Jan 2009]