Arthur Glover LCC
Born 24 May 1885
Died 24 August 1971
Active: 1910 - 1946
Country of birth and death: England
Modeller and plaster worker
Born in Leicester. Son of Fred Glover, born c.1853 in South Croxton, Leicestershire, a wood sawyer (steam). Arthur established a modelling and plasterwork business in London by 1911 and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1913 and 1948.
In 1944 he 'Overhauled and inspected' the Art Workers' Guild Past-master portrait collection, together with H. Nelson [Sixty-first annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, p.3].
This record includes information submitted by his daughter, Elisabeth Kocen.
Works
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Plaster study for group in lead
Bull
1939 (Circa)
Locations
Address 10 Turle Road Tollington Park London N | View on map
1925 (Presumed) - 1928
Address 194 Goldhurst Terrace London NW6 | View on map
1928 (Circa) - 1970 (Circa)
Address given as Southampton Row WC London | View on map
1910 (Presumed)
Address given as Central School of Arts and Crafts.
Studio located at 9 The Studios, Camden Street London | View on map
1913 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Ninth Exhibition, 1910
'Plaster study for group in lead'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1939
'Bull'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1913 - 1948
Exhibited 14 times, 16 works (reliefs, figures in lead and statuettes)
Organized Art Workers Guild Revels, 1937
Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1929
Participant in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1934
Speaker at Plasterwork (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Bronze Casting (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Lighting (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at English Inns (Art Workers Guild), 1932
Speaker at Medieval English Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1933
Speaker at Secrets of the Crafts (Art Workers Guild), 1934
Speaker at St Sophia and the Recently Discovered Mosaics (Art Workers Guild), 1936
Speaker at Pre-Raphaelite Sculptors (Art Workers Guild), 1937
Speaker at The Care of Historic Monuments (Art Workers Guild), 1938
Speaker at Leonardo da Vinci (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Future of the Guild (Art Workers Guild), 1945
Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1930
Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1932
Took part in Art Workers Guild Revels, 1933
Took part in The Master's Night (Art Workers Guild), 1950
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1948
Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, 1965-8
Associated with Central School of Arts and Crafts
1910 (Presumed)
Member of Art Workers Guild
6 February 1925 - 1975 (Presumed)
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1946 (Presumed)
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1915
Awarded a second prize bronze medal for two models of a bust from the life. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1915', (1916), p. 40.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by James Wedgwood
1948 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Herbert William Palliser
1948 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Richard Alfred Thomas
1949 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Descriptions of Practice
Listed in British Phone Books, 1885-1984
1926 - 1970
'Modeller and plasterworker' and then from c.1940 as a 'modeller'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' industry or service with which connected 'Architecture' working on own account
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Plasterer' worker (his older brother Frederick was also employed in the same trade)
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1925, p.10; 1926, p.6; 1928, p.8; 1929, p.4, p.6; 1930, p.4; 1932, p.5, p.10; 1933, p.6, p.13. Also, All annual lists of members' addresses 1925-1933.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Members and Craftsmen
1946 (Probable)
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Ninth Exhibition.
1910
p.144, p.146.
British Phone Books, 1885-1984
2007
Name: Arthur Glover
Address: Plasterworker 10 Turle Rd N.4
Exchange: Mountview
Directory title: London Surnames A - Z Apr
Publication Year: 1926
Directory County: London
Page Number: 478 and Name: Arthur Glover
Address: Modeller 194 Goldhurst Terrace
Exchange: NW6
Directory title: London Surnames E - K
Publication Year: 1970
Directory County: London
Page Number: 243
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 2992 folio 64 page 33
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN779 RG78PN27 RD10 SD1 ED4 SN258
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
The fifty-fifth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1939
1939
p.18.
The fifty-first annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1935
1935
p.13, p.34.
The fifty-fourth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1938
1938
p.10, p.15.
The fifty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1940
1940
p.18.
The fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1937
1937
p.15.
The sixty-first annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1945
1945
p.3.
The sixty-second annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1946
1946
p.9.
The sixty-seventh annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1951
1951
Citing this record
'Arthur Glover LCC', 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_1210257864, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
