Harold Stabler RDI

Works

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Bronze and Enamel Memorial Tablet

The Harpy Eagle

Made Pottery Panel

The Syrian Bear
1929 (Circa)

The Piping Faun
1933

Child with Leopards
1933 (Circa)

Locations

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Address 37 Northumberland Terrace Everton Liverpool | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Sharing this accommodation with his employer Richard Llewellyn Rathbone in 1901

Address 9 Anderson Street King's Road London | View on map
1906 (Circa)

Address 34 Upper Mall Hammersmith London | View on map
1910 (Circa) - 1946 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Exhibition 20 by the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, 1946
'Bronze and Enamel Memorial Tablet'

Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
'The Harpy Eagle'

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventieth Annual Exhibition, 1931
'The Syrian Bear'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Child with Leopards'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1929
'The Syrian Bear'

Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1906 - 1938
Exhibited 11 times, thirteen works in all (silverware, enamelware, ceramics, medals and trophies). In 1922 he exhibited a collaborative work executed with his wife Phoebe Stabler ('Architectural figure' glazed faience, cat. no. 1422)

Speaker at Bronze Founding (Art Workers Guild), 1910

Speaker at Modelled Work in Glazed Earthenware (Art Workers Guild), 1911

Speaker at The Work of Alfred Stevens (Art Workers Guild), 1912

Speaker at Seals (Art Workers Guild), 1913

Speaker at The Application of Colour to Stone and Wood (Art Workers Guild), 1913

Speaker at Temporary Street Decoration (Art Workers Guild), 1914

Speaker at Railway Stations and their Approaches (Art Workers Guild), 1916

Speaker at Mestrovic and the Modern Spirit (Art Workers Guild), 1924

Speaker at Glazed Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1926

Speaker at Pisanello (Art Workers Guild), 1930

Speaker at Portraiture in Coins (Art Workers Guild), 1916

Speaker at Prehistoric Art (Art Workers Guild), 1931

Speaker at Wind-Mills (Art Workers Guild), 1937

Speaker at Wood as a Sculptors' Medium (Art Workers Guild), 1931

Speaker at Chinese Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at Chinese Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at Alehouse Signs (Art Workers Guild), 1916

Speaker at Craft and Media in Painting and Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1917

Speaker at Comparative Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1938

Speaker at Alfred Stevens (Art Workers Guild), 1928

Speaker at Art Workers Guild Revels, 1931

Speaker at Ancient Crafts of the Countryside (Art Workers Guild), 1938

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate of Royal Society of Arts
1938
Awarded the title of 'Royal Designer for Industry' (for pottery and silver-smithing).

Personal and Professional Connections

Assistant to Richard Llewellyn Benson Rathbone
1898 (Circa) - 1907 (Circa)
In Rathbone's Liverpool workshops in Everton, then in London at the Sir John Cass Institute

Collaborated with Norman Wilkinson

Shared studio with Phoebe Gertrude Stabler
1910 (Circa) - 1946

Wife/husband/spouse to Phoebe Gertrude Stabler
They were married in 1906

Descriptions of Practice

Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a sculptor and medallist. Forrer notes that the artist 'won First Prize in Competition instituted by Sir Arthur Evans in 1916 for an artistic medal commemorating the Battle of Jutland Bank. See vol. 8, (1930), p. 214.

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Design & Art in Metals' worker

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist' employer, working on sculpture at home, his wife, Phoebe, is described in the same way, though not an employer

Sources

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twentieth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1929
November 1929
p. 71

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-first Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1931
November 1931
p. 69

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-second Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
November 1933
p. 66

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.9; 1910, p.7; 1911, p.7; 1912, p.5.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1924, p.6.

Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.80, pp.106-107, pp.112-114, p.136, p.246.

Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1930
p. 214.

Catalogue: Exhibition 20, by the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, held at the Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, W1
1946
p.8.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 3475 folio 8 page 7

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN235 RG78PN8 RD3 SD2 ED9 SN177

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Harold Stabler Probate Date: 21 Aug 1945 Death Date: 11 Apr 1945 Death Place: London, England Registry: Llandudno

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. VI SHERR-ZUL
1982
p. 66

The Royal Society of Arts, 1754-1954, 1954
1954
p. 287.