George Woolliscroft Rhead Junior
Born 1855
Died May 1920
Active: 1870 - 1920
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, muralist, etcher, stained glass artist, educator
Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. He came from a family of pottery workers and designers. Rhead Junior initially served an apprenticeship with Minton's and then studied at the National Art Training School, he also travelled in France and Italy. From pottery painting he moved into etching, illustration, designing for stained glass and mural painting. Over a forty year period Rhead Junior exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy. He was also an educator and became headmaster of the Schools of Art at Putney, Borough Polytechnic and Norwood. He wrote or illustrated at least twelve books including several titles on pottery, costume and design.
This record includes information submitted by Mark Heath.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at The Apprenticeship Problem (Art Workers Guild), 1910
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Minton and Company
See Haggar, 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged; listed as a ceramic artist but no dates are given.
Member of Art Workers Guild
1890 - 1920 (Presumed)
Studied at Newcastle School of Art
1853 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 30.
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 30.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1910, p.6.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2005
RG09 piece 1917 folio 119 page 20
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Thursday, May 06, 1920; pg. 18; Issue 42403; col F
Mr. George Woolliscroft Rhead.
Category: Obituaries
Citing this record
'George Woolliscroft Rhead Junior', 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_1215787825, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
