Robert Sargent Austin RA
Born 23 June 1895
Died 18 September 1973
Active: 1939 - 1949
Country of birth and death: England
Printmaker, engraver, etcher, illustrator
Born in Leicester, Leicestershire
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
28 February 1939 - 7 April 1949
Elected RA in 1949.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
7 April 1949 - 31 December 1970
Then became Senior RA until his death in 1973.
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1914 - 1922
See Hilary Cunliffe-Charlesworth, ‘The Royal College of Art' (1991), appendix D, p. 596.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of Loris Rey
February 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Sources
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.149.
The Royal College of Art: Its Influences on Education, Art and Design 1900-1950, 1991 Royal College of Art
August 1991
p. 596.
Citing this record
'Robert Sargent Austin 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_1217497975, accessed 12 May 2021]
