Frederick John Wilcoxson
Born 12 January 1888
Died 9 August 1974
Active: 1909 - 1950
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, stone carver
Born in Liverpool, Lancashire. The son of William Henry Patrick Wilcoxson (1860-1943), stone and wood carver. During the First World War Frederick served first with the Royal Army Medical Corps at the 3rd London General Hospital. Francis Derwent Wood, and William Bateman Fagan also worked there, also, possibly, Thomas Humphrey Paget. In 1915 Frederick was gazetted as an officer in the Royal Field Artillery and was treated for severe shell shock in January 1917 having been in a trench at Souchez which received a direct hit killing four men. The form Wilcoxson completed (2nd December 1915) when applying for a commission states he studied at Ashton Grove Higher Grade School, Liverpool and the School of Architecture and Applied Art at Liverpool University and that he then enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts (presume Schools), London. Wilcoxson created war memorials at Ripon, Hale in Greater Manchester and added replacement badges to the the Royal Naval Division Memorial.
For a fuller discussion of the facial injuries unit, see Sarah Crellin, 'Hollow Men: Francis Derwent Wood's masks and memorials, 1915-1925.' Sculpture Journal, vol 6, 2001, pp. 75-88
Wealth at death: £2,067 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 18 September 1974
Locations
Address 3 Glebe Place Chelsea London SW | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Address 14 Redcliffe Square London SW10 | View on map
1921 (Circa) - 1922 (Circa)
Address 13 Selwood Terrace Onslow Gardens London | View on map
1922 - 1940
Care of 143 Old Church Street Chelsea London SW3 | View on map
1918 (Circa)
c/o Chelsea Arts Club
School located at 2 Oakley Studios Upper Cheyne Row London SW3 | View on map
1913 (Circa) - 1915
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1913 - 1940
Exhibited 17 times, one or two works per year, chiefly portrait busts or heads.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1938 (Presumed)
Became fellow in 1938.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1947 (Presumed)
Became honorary member in 1947.
Honorary member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1947 - 1950
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1921 - 1950
Member of Art Workers Guild
10 June 1922 - 1927
Resigned 1927.
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1909 (Presumed)
Awarded a first prize silver medal for a model of a bust from the life, and a one year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture, in 19009. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1909', (1910), p. 34.
Teacher at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1920 (Circa) - 1924 (Circa)
H. Cunliffe-Charlesworth suggests that Wilcoxon taught sculpture at the College between these dates, but may have worked at the College before 1920. See 'The Royal College of Art' PhD thesis,(1991), vol. 3, appendix C, p. 590. No source is given. Note that Wilcoxon is not listed in any of the College's prospectuses (as Cunliffe-Charlesworth also acknowledges).
Teacher of modeling at St Martin's School of Art
1938 (Circa) - 1940 (Circa)
Listed as a teacher of modelling for day and evening classes at the School in the 1938-1939 prospectus. Note that there are no prospectuses from 1924 to 1937 and it is, therefore, possible that Wilcoxon started teaching at the School at any time between those dates. There are also no prospectuses from 1941 to 1944. Wilcoxon is not listed on the staff in 1945-1946, however, he may have been teaching at the school between 1941 and 1944.
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant to Francis Derwent Wood
1911 (Circa)
Daughter/son/child of William Henry Patrick Wilcoxson
Nominated by Francis Derwent Wood
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Henry Poole
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Worked with Francis Derwent Wood
At the facial injuries unit during the First World War according to Kineton Parkes (1921), p. 88
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor (stone)' and a worker
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1922, p.12, p.40; 1925, p.5; 1927, p.40.
British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920
2008
Name: Frederick John Wilcoxson
Regiment or Corps: Royal Field Artillery
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 3441 folio 17 page 26
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN403 RG78PN13 RD4 SD2 ED7 SN296
Find a Will
2014
Name: Wilcoxson, Frederick John
Death: 9 August 1974
Probate: 18 September 1974
Page: 9692
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Sculpture of To-day: America, Great Britain and Japan, vol. 1
1921
pp. 88, 128
St Martin's School of Art, Prospectus and Time Table of the Session 1938-1939 St Martin's School of Art Prospectuses
1938
pp. 2, 6
The Royal College of Art: Its Influences on Education, Art and Design 1900-1950, 1991 Royal College of Art
August 1991
p. 590.
Your Archives Beta Version
2008 (Presumed)
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Wilcoxson%2C_Frederick_John%2C_Sculptor (accessed 10 February 2010)
Citing this record
'Frederick John Wilcoxson', 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_1208277250, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
