Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware
Born 1883
Died 1960
Active: 1905 - 1948
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Plaistow, Essex. Baptised on 2 December 1883, possibly born on 29th September 1883.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Pigeon
1935 (Presumed)
£1 10s.
Locations
Address 9 Kenton Street Russell Square London WC England | View on map
1910 (Presumed)
Address 52 Doughty Street London WC England | View on map
1911 - 1913
Census Returns of 1911 list him as employed at this address
Address 18 Gunter Grove Chelsea London SW10 England | View on map
1931 (Presumed) - 1951 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Ninth Exhibition, 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1913 - 1940
Exhibited 5 times (1913, 1914 and then 1934, 1935, 1940). 1 work each year (silver and medal pre-war, carvings in stone in 1930s).
Exhibited at Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition, 1935
8 June 1935 - 25 September 1935
Institutional and Business Connections
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1943 - 1960
Died in 1960.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1916 - 1960
Nominated in December 1915 by F. Derwent Wood and Alfred Turner. Associate member 1923-31. Break in membership between 1932 and 1939. Died in 1960.
Member of Art Workers Guild
6 February 1931 - 1960
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1946 - 1947
Rejoined Royal Society of British Sculptors
1939
Became fellow in 1943.
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1910 (Presumed)
Awarded a £5 prize and silver medal for a model of a design, in 1910. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1910', (1911), p. 36.
Teacher at Central School of Arts and Crafts
September 1905 - June 1940
Listed as a teacher of 'Silversmiths' and Goldsmiths' work (large and small), Jewellers' work, Chasing, Engraving, Carving, etc. Modelling for Gold and Silversmiths, Moulding and Metal Casting, Working Drawings for Silversmiths and Metal Workers, etc'.
From 1908 Ware is listed as teacher of design, modelling and metal casting, goldsmiths' and jewellers' work, and in the day technical school, in the department of Silversmiths' Work and Allied Crafts.
Not listed between September 1915 and June 1921. Listed again from September 1921 as teacher of evening classes in goldsmiths' and jewellers' design and goldsmiths' design and modelling. From 1932-1933 onwards Ware taught die-sinking and engraving.
Vice-president of Royal Society of British Sculptors
31 March 1948 - 1953
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Francis Derwent Wood
1916 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Alfred Turner
1916 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Onslow Ernest Whiting
1920 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of E. Roland Bevan
1945
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Polly Hill Clarke
1946 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Philip Lindsey Clark
1958 (Presumed)
For president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist, Sculptor' and place of employment as '52 Doughty Street, WC'
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1911, 1912 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1912
Awarded a £5 prize and silver medal for a design for a medal, in 1911. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1911', 1912, p. 40.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1931, p.11, p.39; 1933, p.42.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Ninth Exhibition.
1910
p.61, p.65, p.87.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN6775 RG78PN338 RD127 SD2 ED5 SN150
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus & Time-Table for the Session Commencing 21 September 1908
21 September 1908
p. 2.
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus & Time-Table of the Session 26 September 1921 to 24 June 1922
26 September 1921
Unpaged timetable.
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table for the Tenth Session 1905-1906, Commencing 18 September 1905
18 September 1905
p. 2.
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table of the Session, 1939-1940
September 1939 (Presumed)
Unpaged timetable.
London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
2010
Westminster; All Souls, St Marylebone; 1883; Image 12
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition
1935
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. 2.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1950, to be Presented at the Forty-Seventh Annual General Meeting, 1951
February 1951
p. 2.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1951, to be Presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting, 1952
February 1952
p. 2.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending the 31st December, 1948, to be Presented at the Forty-Fifth Ordinary General Meeting, 1949
March 1949
p. 2 and p. 4.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 2, 1913-1922
1922 (Presumed)
20 December 1915
The sixty-eighth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1951
1951
p.29.
Citing this record
'Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware', 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_1208276253, accessed 24 Sep 2023]