Christopher Whitworth Whall
Born 1849
Died 1924
Active: 1888 - 1920
Painter, stained glass designer, teacher
Works
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Experiment in tinting sculpture: a crucifix
Experiment in tinting sculpture
Assistant in making of Apsidal Chapel
Designed and executed Altarpeice entitled 'Our Lady of the time of War' with Veronica Whall for the Apsidal Chapel
Frieze round the Dome. The Angelic Hierarchies
Whall designed the frieze, it was executed with Edward Woore and four assistants
Locations
Address Eyot Cottage Chiswick Mall London England | View on map
1897 (Presumed) - 1898
Address 19 Shaftesbury Road Hammersmith London England | View on map
1899 - 1920 (Presumed)
Miss Veronica Whall, Painter and illustrator, also listed at this address in 1920 (ACES membership list).
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Speaker at The Use of Colour in Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1890
Speaker at The Architecture of Monuments (Art Workers Guild), 1905
Speaker at The Work of Alfred Stevens (Art Workers Guild), 1912
Speaker at Evolution of the Mediaeval Statue (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Greek Drapery (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at New Delhi and the Future of the Arts in India (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at The Application of Colour to Stone and Wood (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Craft Universities (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Institutional and Business Connections
Master of Art Workers Guild
1912
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1888 (Presumed) - 1920 (Presumed)
Member of Art Workers Guild
1889 - 1924
Committee member 1897-1899, Master 1912.
Teacher at Central School of Arts and Crafts
1896 - June 1915
Listed as a teacher of stained glass work. From 1905 to June 1909 listed as a visiting teacher. Not listed between September 1909 and 1913. Listed as a special lecturer and demonstrator in stained glass in the 1914-1915 prospectus.
Personal and Professional Connections
Apprenticed Karl B. Parsons
1899 (Circa)
Assistant was F.R. Gadsby
Assistant was Basil Jones
Assistant was Mary Hutchinson
Collaborated with Charles Sydney Spooner
Collaborated with Veronica Whall
Collaborated with Edward Woore
Woore was Whall's apprentice c.1906-12.
Mother/father/parent of Veronica Whall
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist in Stained Glass' employed
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1890, p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.5; 1912, p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1913, pp.12-14.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1897
1897
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1907
1907
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Rules and List of Members, 1920
1920
p.7.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.94, p.96, pp.242-243.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the First Exhibition.
1888
p.118, p.130, p.135, p.140, pp.179-180, p.187.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
pp.115-116, p.119, p.218, p.220, p.223, p.241.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
Reference RG14PN252 RD3 SD2 ED26 SN62
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 and Time-Table for the Tenth Session 1905-1906, Commencing 18 September 1905
18 September 1905
p. 2.
Prospectus and Time Table, The Central School of Arts and Crafts, 20 December 1896
20 December 1896
p. 2.
Citing this record
'Christopher Whitworth Whall', 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_1209504843, accessed 23 Sep 2023]