George Spencer Watson RA
Born 8 March 1869
Died 11 April 1934
Active: 1889 - 1932
Country of birth and death: England
Painter
Born in London
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
26 April 1923 - 16 February 1932
Elected RA in 1933.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
16 February 1932 - 11 April 1934
Died in 1934.
Personal and Professional Connections
Made portrait of Henry Richard Hope-Pinker
1921 (Presumed)
Given by artist to AWG to add to collection of portraits of Guild Past-Masters.
Nominator of Charles William Dyson-Smith
30 March 1932 (Presumed)
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Thomas Mewburn Crook
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of James Alexander Stevenson
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ernest George Gillick
March 1934
For RA.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1921, p.7.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
pp.18-19, p.34, p.61, p.70, p.119, p.190.
Citing this record
'George Spencer Watson 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_1215703643, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
