Robert Stark
Born 1 May 1853
Died 27 August 1931
Active: 1885 - 1905
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Canada
Sculptor, painter
Born in Torquay, Devon. Studied at the Royal College of Art, and then in Florence and Paris. Died at Victoria, British Columbia.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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A Kid
1901
John Peel
1901
Locations
Address 57 Bedford Gardens London | View on map
1883 (Presumed) - 1886 (Presumed)
Address Chagford | View on map
1889 - 1901
Previous addresses include: 2 Hillgrove road NW (1887) and 29 Portland Road, Holland Park (1888) [see Graves (1906)]
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1883 - 1897
Exhibited 13 times, usually one work.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1885
1885
Sussex Spaniel (cat. no. 1437, bronze, £12 12s.); Lioness (cat. no. 1439, bronze, £12 12s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
A Kid (cat. no. 1174, bronze, £30); John Peel (cat. no. 1177, not for sale).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Institutional and Business Connections
Assistant teacher of modeling at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1883 - 1886
'List of Staff' includes 'R. Stark' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1905
Amongst the second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]. End date of membership unknown.
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third, 1893 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1893
pp. 42-45.
Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth, 1885 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1885
pp. 85-87.
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905.
The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture: Devoted to the works in the collection by all British artists ... born in or after 1850 Tate Gallery catalogues
1964
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=522&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio (accessed 15 March 2010)
Citing this record
'Robert Stark', 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_1219850375, accessed 30 May 2023]
