Joseph Witcombe
Born 1843 (Circa)
Active: 1871 - 1901
Country of birth and death: England
Modeller, sculptor, stone mason, stone carver
Born in Dundon, Somersetshire into a family of stone masons. His father, Joseph Witcombe (born c.1796 in Somerset) was a stone mason as was his older brother, George Witcombe (born c.1831 in Dundon). He settled in London before 1881 in Lambeth where he established a modelling and sculpting business.
Works
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Modelled Plaster panel for the New Public Library, Hertford
modelled foliage and letters
Locations
Address 130 Dorset Road Lambeth London | View on map
1881 (Circa) - 1891 (Circa)
Address 75 Vauxhall Bridge Road London | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Class: RG13; Piece: 93; Folio: 29; Page: 22
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
Multiple works
Took part in Plaster Work (Art Workers Guild), 1887
November 1887
Institutional and Business Connections
Lectured at Art Workers Guild
November 1887
Gave practical demonstration of plaster decoration at a meeting of the Guild
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Reginald Theodore Blomfield
On 'Plaster panel for the New Public Library, Hertford' shown in 1889 ACES exhibition.
Collaborated with Mervyn E. Macartney
1888 (Presumed)
On 'Freize decoration in plaster' submitted to the 1888 exhibition of the ACES.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Mason and carver' boarding at 19 Stonegate, Headingley, Leeds
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Stone Mason' boarding with his brother, George, also a stone mason, in Maidstone. Presume they were on contract work when the Census was taken
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Sculptor & Modeller' employer
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor & Modeller' own account
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Stone Mason'
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1887, p.5.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the First Exhibition.
1888
p.115, p.140.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.117.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2005
Class: RG9; Piece: 501; Folio: 86; Page: 11; GSU roll: 542650
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 4574; Folio: 32; Page: 4; GSU roll: 847251
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 603; Folio: 82; Page: 11; GSU roll: 1341138
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 400 folio 112 page 35
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 93; Folio: 29; Page: 22
Citing this record
'Joseph Witcombe', 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_1209505642, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
