Richard Arthur Ledward
Born 1857
Died 1890
Active: 1879 - 1889
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Sculptor, teacher of modelling
Born at Burslem, Staffordshire. Studied at Burslem School of Art and the National Art Training School (Royal College of Art). Ledward taught there and then became modelling master at Westminster and Blackheath Schools of Art. Richard's children included the sculptor, Gilbert Ledward (1888-1960), (Phyllis) Hilda Ledward who married the sculptor Newbury Abbot Trent (1885-1953) in 1911 and Enid who married the painter, Percy Jowett.
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Award received from National Scholarships, 1863
1879 - 1882
Listed as a National Scholar at the National Art Training School, London. Modeller, aged 21, from Burslem, who on leaving the school, was appointed Assistant Master at South Kensington (see 'List of National Scholars', 1884, p. 190).
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1882 - 1890
Exhibited 9 times.
Institutional and Business Connections
Assistant teacher of modeling at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1882 - 1883 (Presumed)
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. See also 'List of National Scholars', (1884), p. 190.
Employed at Wedgwood Memorial Institute, Burslem and Tunstall School of Science and Art
See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 92.
Member of Art Workers Guild
1888 - 1890
Teacher at Wedgwood Memorial Institute, Burslem and Tunstall School of Science and Art
See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 92.
Sources
A Dictionary of Ceramic Artists
2007
p. 92.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1890, p.6, p.13. Notice of death, comments from Master of AWG John Brett.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Papers relating to the founding of the Society
1888 (Circa)
'National Exhibition of the Arts'. Listed as one of 20 sculptors invited to be part of selection and hanging committee.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.155, p.263.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Contained in:
Catherine Moriarty, ‘Ledward, Gilbert (1888–1960)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34463, accessed 23 July 2009]
Citing this record
'Richard Arthur Ledward', 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_1207265518, accessed 03 Feb 2023]
