Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield RA
Born 20 December 1856
Died 27 December 1942
Active: 1888 - 1926
Country of birth and death: England
Architect
Born in Aldingham, Kent
Works
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Designed Plaster panel for the New Public Library, Hertford
Modelled Plaster panel for the New Public Library, Hertford
modelled animals
Memorial Slab to Sir L. Alma Tadema, OM, RA, to be placed in the Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral
Designed Memorial Slab to Sir L. Alma Tadema, OM, RA, to be placed in the Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral
Memorial Slab to Sir Alma-Tadema, OM, RA
1916
designed by Blomfield
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
'Memorial Slab to Sir L. Alma Tadema, OM, RA, to be placed in the Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral'
Speaker at Modern Sculpture in Open Spaces (Art Workers Guild), 1894
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of War Memorials Committee (Royal Academy of Arts), 1918
1918
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1920 - 1927
Served on the Schools Committee, Selection Committee (junior half of the Coucil), Hanging Committee and the Public Policy Committee in 1920. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1919', (1920), p. 45. Served on the Selection Committee (junior half of the Council) in 1922. See 'Annual Report, 1921', (1922), p. 30. Served on the Schools Committee in 1923, 1924 and 1925, and on the Selection Committee (junior half of the Council) in 1925. In 1926, he was Chairman of the Schools Committee. See 'Annual Report, 1925', (1926), p. 34. Served on the Schools Committee.
Lectured at Royal Academy Schools
20 November 1930
Lectured on 'The New Architecture'. See 'Annual Report, 1930', (1931), p. 61.
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1915 - 1930
Listed as a Council Member from 1915 to 1916, 1918 to 1920, 1922 to 1923, 1925 to 1926, and from 1929 to 1930. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1914', (1915), p. 33.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Joseph Witcombe
On 'Plaster panel for the New Public Library, Hertford' shown in 1889 ACES exhibition.
Collaborated with W. Weedon
Collaborated with Emile Alfred Madeline
Collaborated with William Bainbridge Reynolds
Nominator of Benjamin Clemens
19 November 1907
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of John Tweed
1912 - 20 January 1920
For RA; unsuccessful [Two separate nominations].
Nominator of Gilbert Ledward
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominator of Oliver Wheatley
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Arthur George Walker
10 March 1920
For RA.
Nominator of Basil Gotto
27 February 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Henry Poole
1 March 1920
For RA.
Nominator of Harold Parker
1 March 1920
For RA.
Nominator of Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Henry Charles Fehr
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Albert Arthur Toft
1 March 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Charles de Sousy Ricketts
March 1922
For RA.
Nominator of Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
28 March 1930
For RA.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
7 November 1932
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of James Alexander Stevenson
21 October 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.
Sources
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1924, 1925 Royal Academy Annual Reports
20 February 1925
pp. 29-30.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1894, p.9.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.265.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.117, p.143, p.159, p.252.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
pp.8-13, p.39, p.77, p.108, p.134, p.136, p.149, p.161, p.164.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.70, p.94, p.96, p.119, p.149.
Citing this record
'Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield RA', 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_1210776739, accessed 01 Oct 2023]