Sir George Clausen RA
Born 18 April 1852
Died 22 November 1944
Active: 1895 - 1908
Country of birth and death: England
Painter
Born in London
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at Sculpture at Olympia (Art Workers Guild), 1910
Speaker at Realism in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at The Application of Colour to Stone and Wood (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Art in Household Things (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, its Inception, Aims and Objects (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Wrote catalogue for Memorial exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by the Late J. Havard Thomas (Leicester Galleries), 1922
Catalogue included a memoir by Clausen
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
24 January 1895 - 23 January 1908
Elected RA in 1908.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
23 January 1908 - 13 December 1927
Then became Senior RA until his death in 1944.
Master of Art Workers Guild
1909
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of James Havard Thomas
23 January 1908 - 23 January 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Charles de Sousy Ricketts
25 April 1915
For RA.
Nominator of Leonard Stanford Merrifield
26 April 1917 - 1925
two nominations for RA, in 1917 and 1925, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of John Tweed
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ernest George Gillick
22 February 1927
For RA.
Nominator of Gilbert Ledward
22 February 1927
For RA.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Alfred Frank Hardiman
1 November 1927
For RA.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1910, p.7.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1913, pp.13-14.
Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd., The Leicester Galleries. An index of 1422 catalogues of exhibitions of European Modern Art and 20th Century British Art, held between 1902 and 1977
http://www.ernestbrownandphillips.ltd.uk (accessed 17 July 2019)
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.14, p.77, p.86.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.15, pp.18-19, p.41, p.61, p.70, p.143.
Citing this record
'Sir George Clausen 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_1214580077, accessed 25 Mar 2023]