Richard Alfred Thomas

Locations

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Address 34 Fitzroy Square London W1 | View on map
1937 (Circa)

Studio located at 4 Wentworth Studios Manresa Road London SW | View on map
1941 (Circa)

Studio located at 12 Trafalgar Studios Manresa Road London SW3 | View on map
1950 (Presumed) - 1951 (Presumed)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Beneficiary of Leverhulme Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1932-1951
1949
Awarded a £150 Leverhulme Scholarship for sculpture in 1949.

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1937 - 1941
Exhibited twice, three works in all, wood carvings

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1949
Duration of membership unknown

Member of Art Workers Guild
April 1949
Duration of membership unknown

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1937 (Presumed) - 1949 (Presumed)
Awarded a first Landseer Prize of £30 and silver medal for a model of a design, and a second Landseer Prize of £10 and bronze medal for two models of busts from the life, in 1937. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1937', (1938), p. 44. In 1938, Thomas won the Edward Scott Scholarship of £30 and silver medal for a model of a design of s subject combined with architecture, a first Landseer Prize of £20 and silver medal for two models of busts from the life, a first Landseer Prize of £30 and silver medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life, and a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1938', (1939), pp. 41-42. In 1948, he won a the gold medal and Edward Scott Travelling Studentship of £200 for a composition in sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1948', (1949), p. 26. Awarded a £150 Leverhulme Scholarship for sculpture in 1949. See 'Annual Report, 1949', (1950), p. 16.

Personal and Professional Connections

May be connected to Harry Thomas
Based on having the same address at Wentworth Studios and Trafalgar Studios at slightly different times in the 1940s and 1950s

Nominated by Arthur Glover
1949 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by James Wedgwood
1949 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Frank Graeme Martin
1951
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Sources

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1937, 1938 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1938
p. 43.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1938, 1939 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1939
p. 41.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1948, 1949 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1949
p. 26.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1949, 1950 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1950
p. 16.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.63.

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. VI SHERR-ZUL
1982
p. 133

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1949, to be Presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting, 1950
February 1950
p. 3.

The sixty-eighth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1951
1951
p.28.

The sixty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1950
1950
p.7, p.28.