Frederick Brook Hitch ARCA
Born 7 November 1877
Died 30 April 1957
Active: 1901 - 1957
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born at 60 Harleyford Road, Lambeth (Vauxhall), London. Died in Hertfordshire.
Wealth at death: £25,739 1s. 4d.
Probate date: 15 August 1957
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
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
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.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 414; Folio: 38; Page: 7.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
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 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. 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]
Citing this record
'Frederick Brook Hitch ARCA', 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_1207262269, accessed 04 Oct 2023]