Charles Rutland
Born 27 April 1859
Died 27 August 1943
Active: 1881 - 1931
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, pointer
Born in Cheltenham, Gloucester. He was the son of Thomas Rutland, bootmaker born in London c.1827. Charles trained at the City and Guilds Art School and the National Art Training School where he won silver medals and a travelling scholarship which took him to Paris and Italy.
Until the early 1900s he seems to have travelled to carry out commissions or employment, for example in 1891 he was sharing accommodation in Northampton with the sculptor Robert Lindsey Clark and in 1901 he was in Lichfield, Staffordshire. However by 1904 Charles and his family moved to London were he remained for the rest of his career. He was married three times and had eight sons and three daughters. Three of the sons were all stone carvers and may have assisted their father: George, Thomas and Arthur Rutland (born c.1882, c.1884 and c.1885 in Cheltenham, Gloucester).
Charles exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy until 1931 and a work by him entitled 'Youth, time, eternity' (c.1915) is in the collection of Glasgow Museums and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove. In 1915 Rutland participated in an exhibition at the Georgian Hall at Waring and Gillow (180 Oxford Street) for the benefit of sculptors who had suffered during the war, twenty per cent of proceeds went to this cause and other sculptors participating included: Gilbert Bayes; William Hamo Thornycroft; Arthur George Walker; Kate Tizard; and Alfred Drury.
However the core of his practice seems to have working as a pointer for other sculptors. His obituary describes him as having been: 'greatly in demand by the leading sculptors of the day to execute their designs in marble or stone, and examples of his work in this kind are to be found in several churches and colleges.' These projects included working with Philip Lindsey Clark on the Southwark War Memorial (1921). He died in Wimbledon.
(Information about the Southwark commission is held by London Metropolitan Archives P92/SAV/2666-7) This record includes information submitted by Michael Green.
Wealth at death: £849 19s. 4d.
Probate date: 29 November 1943
Works
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Locations
Address 83 Overstone Road Northampton | View on map
1891 (Circa)
Sharing these lodgings with Robert Lindsey Clark
Address 99 Birmingham Road Lichfield St Michael Lichfield | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Address 168 Hartfield Road Wimbledon London | View on map
1904 (Circa) - 1943
Address 20 Elm Park Garden Mews London SW | View on map
1914 (Circa) - 1931 (Circa)
Possibly a studio address
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1907
'The Timid Nymph'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1904 - 1931
Exhibited 8 times, 10 works in all (statuettes, reliefs and portrait heads in marble and alabaster)
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Robert Lindsey Clark
1921 (Circa)
In 1891 they were lodging at the same address and presumably colleagues on a commission. In 1921 Rutland assisted Robert's son, Philip with the carving for the Southwark War Memorial
Employee of Robert Bridgeman
Charles Rutland may have worked for Robert Bridgeman's firm around 1901 because in the Census Returns he was a 'Sculptor' worker residing at 99 Birmingham Road, Lichfield. The major employer of sculptors in the city at that date would have been the Bridgeman firm. Rutland's son, George H. Rutland (born c.1882), resident at the same address, was a 'Stone Carver' worker.
Nominated by William Silver Frith
5 February 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconded by Thomas Stirling Lee
5 February 1906 - 5 February 1905
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Sculptor' employed
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' worker and his son George H. Rutland (born c.1882) at the same address was a 'Stone Carver' worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' employer also at the same address Thomas and Arthur Rutland (born c.1884 and c.1885 in Cheltenham, Gloucester) both described as 'Stone Carver' workers
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1907
1907
Cat. No. 723, pp. 57, 84
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 2666 folio 30 page 12
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 2566; Folio: 11; Page: 15; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341619
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 1198; Folio 135; Page 7; GSU roll: 6096308
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 2654 folio 156 page 29
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN3480 RG78PN130 RD40 SD1 ED18 SN260
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Charles Rutland
Death Registration Month/Year: 1943
Age at death (estimated): 84
Registration district: Surrey Mid Eastern
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 178
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Charles Henry Rutland
Year of Registration: 1859
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Cheltenham
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 376
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Charles Rutland
Probate Date: 29 Nov 1943
Death Date: 27 Aug 1943
Death Place: Surrey, England
Registry: Llandudno
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
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. 3.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
5 February 1906.
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Saturday, Sep 11, 1943; pg. 6; Issue 49648; col E
Obituary
Category: Obituaries
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
he Times, Thursday, Nov 25, 1915; pg. 5; Issue 41021; col A
A Fund For Sculptors. Exhibition Of British Works.
Category: Reviews
AND
The Times, Saturday, Sep 11, 1943; pg. 6; Issue 49648; col E
Obituary
Category: Obituaries
Who was Who
December 2007
‘RUTLAND, Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U231367, accessed 24 Aug 2010] NB gives the year of his birth as 1858 instead of 1859
Citing this record
'Charles Rutland', 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_1219945235, accessed 27 Jul 2021]
