Charles Sargeant Jagger ARA
Born 17 December 1885
Died 16 November 1934
Active: 1907 - 1934
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, silver engraver, teacher
Born in Kilnhurst, Yorkshire.
Wealth at death: £1,587 16s. 10d.
Probate date: 17 December 1934
Works
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St John
1929
Virgin Mary
1929
Pan
1934
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
1934 (Circa)
Sketch for 'Driver' on Royal Artillery War Memorial, Hyde Park Corner
1934 (Circa)
Nymph and Faun
1938
Locations
Address 17 Wentworth Road Swinton | View on map
1901
Address 33 Tite Street Chelsea London SW3 | View on map
1919 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1935
Multiple works
Exhibited at Sargent Jagger Memorial Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts), 1926
1926
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Third, 1929
1929
Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938
Selection committee member of The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixtieth (Summer Exhibition), 1928
1928
Served on the Selection Committee (elected member) in 1928.
Selection committee member of Chantrey Bequest (Chantrey Fund; Royal Academy of Arts), 1875-1948
1931
Served on the Recommending Committee in 1931 (Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1931', 1932, p. 22).
Selection committee member of The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundredth and Sixty-Fourth, 1932
5 April 1932 - 15 April 1932
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1932' (1933), p. 35.
Won prize The British School at Rome Scholarship in Sculpture
1914
Jagger received his award days before the outbreak of war, he enlisted rather going to Rome. However his scholarship was paid until 1915 and he used it to supplement his army pay. After the war, he was given a year's scholarship in London during which time he created 'No Man's Land'. The British School at Rome paid for the casting of the relief in bronze, which was acquired by Tate.
Won prize Prize for the best work of sculpture exhibited in London
1926
Awarded for his 'Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner'. The Council decided 'that owing to the exceptional importance and quality of this fine work, the Medal on this occasion should be struck in gold for presentation to Mr. Jagger' (see 'Annual Report, 1926', 1927, pp. 4-5).
Won prize Prize for the best work of sculpture exhibited in London
1933
Won the award for his 'groups of Sculpture at Imperial Chemical House, Milbank, S. W.'.
Institutional and Business Connections
Commissioned by Royal Geographical Society
To create a statue of Sir Ernest Shackleton for the exterior of the RGS's building in Kensington Gore
Commissioned by Royal Society of British Sculptors
1928 (Circa)
To design the Society's badge of office. Jagger did not produce a design and so the commission was offered to Richard Garbe in 1929
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
22 April 1926 - 16 November 1934
Died in 1934. Was nominated twice before election, in 1919 and in 1925.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1934
Died in 1934.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1921 - 1934
Died in 1934.
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1922 - 1928
Served as a Member of the Council from 1922-1923, and from 1927 to 1928. By March 1929, Jagger had resigned from the Council 'owing to pressure of work'
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1907 - 1911
See Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 595.
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1928
Visitor to the School of Sculpture from 1928. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1927', (1928), p. 34.
Personal and Professional Connections
Employed Percy (Percival) Charles Apthorpe
1929 (Circa) - 1930 (Circa)
£250
In 1929 provided an estimate of £250 for carving the 'Shipbuilding group' on the ICI building in Portland stone. This was to be 'properly boasted to details supplied and finished at my premises', stone to be delivered to Apthorpe's workshop. The estimate excludes extra work if the stone is 'faulty'. A receipt dated 22 July 1930 confirms the work was completed
Employed as studio assistant Emile Jacot
1924
Nominated by Robert Anning Bell
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominated by David Young Cameron
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominated by George James Frampton
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominated by Frederick William Pomeroy
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominated by Frank Short
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominated by William Goscombe John
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominated by Francis Derwent Wood
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
November 1925
For RA.
Nominated by William Hamo Thornycroft
November 1925
For RA.
Received patronage from (Agnes) Freda Forres
1930
Freda, Lady Forres commissioned a relief entitled 'The Mocking Birds' from Jagger in 1930 and after his death helped organise the memorial exhibition of his work which took place in 1935.
Related to Lillian Maud Wade (Morris)
Charles Sargeant Jagger married Lillian's daughter, Evelyn Wade in 1925
Taught (Agnes) Freda Forres
1926 (Circa)
Freda, Lady Forres was a pupil of Jagger's for one year and worked in his studio for another two (based on papers in the latter's archive). It is assumed this was around 1926 when Lady Forres began exhibiting at the Royal Academy.
Worked with Antonio Giudici
1921 (Circa) - 1925
According to information submitted by James Butler RA, Antonio Giudici carved a great deal of the stone work on the Royal Artillery Memorial.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Engraver Silversmith [overwritten] Gold' worker
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 4402; Folio: 190; Page: 4
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Ann Compton, ‘Jagger, Charles Sargeant (1885–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34146, accessed 27 Feb 2009]
Palace of Arts
Empire Exhibition
Scotland
1938
The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938
Papers of Charles Sargeant Jagger 1885-c.1980
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.107.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1922. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1923
26 February 1923
p. 1
The British School at Rome: one hundred years
2001
p. 210
The Royal College of Art: Its Influences on Education, Art and Design 1900-1950, 1991 Royal College of Art
August 1991
p. 595.
Citing this record
'Charles Sargeant Jagger ARA', 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_1215099087, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
