Philip Lindsey Clark DSO, FRBS
Born 10 January 1889
Died 25 December 1977
Active: 1921 - 1951
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Brixton, London. He was the son of Robert Lindsey Clark (1864-1926), sculptor, architectural sculptor and painter. Philip grew up in Cheltenham where his father worked for H.H. Martyn & Co. as head of the sculpture workshop. He trained for four years in father's studio (c.1905-10) and then attended South London Technical School of Art (1910-14).
Soon after the outbreak of the First World War Philip enlisted in the Artists' Rifles and was commissioned into the 11th Royal Sussex on 30th September 1916. He served with the battalion on the Western Front until 1917 when he was severely wounded. Clark was mentioned several times in despatches and won the DSO.
Works
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Sticking
1923 (Presumed)
£42
Arlekin
1923 (Presumed)
£31 10s.
Arlekin
1924
Sticking out
1924
Locations
Address 14 Caroline Street Sloane Square London | View on map
1922 (Circa) - 1940 (Circa)
Then at: 14 Caroline Terrace, SW1 (1946-52) [see Royal Academy Exhibitors (1977) p. 34-5]
Address 14 Cawlive Street London | View on map
1924
School located at The Studios, 36 Maxwell Road Walham Green London SW | View on map
1920 (Circa)
Studio located at 1 Radnor Studios London | View on map
1921 - 1924
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Eighth, 1924
'Arlekin'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1920 - 1952
Exhibited 16 times, one or two works per year.
Exhibited at The Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1923-4
2 October 1923 - 2 February 1924
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1922 - 1945 (Presumed)
Became fellow in 1945.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
8 March 1945 - 1965
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1951
President of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1958 - 1959
Student at South London Technical School of Art (also Lambeth School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School)
1910 - 1914 (Circa)
According to Philip's obituary in 'The Times'
Student at Royal Academy Schools
1919 (Circa) - 1921 (Circa)
According to Philip's obituary in 'The Times'
Vice-president of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1958 - 1959
Personal and Professional Connections
Daughter/son/child of Robert Lindsey Clark
Mother/father/parent of Michael Clark
Nominated by Leonard Stanford Merrifield
1922 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
1922 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware
1958 (Presumed)
For president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Harold James Youngman
1958 (Presumed)
For president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Michael Clark
1949
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Studied under Robert Lindsey Clark
1905 (Circa) - 1910 (Circa)
According to Philip's obituary in 'The Times'
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' and worker
Sources
Catalogue for the Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1923
1923
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 2466 folio 59 page 9
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN2023 RD25 SD3 ED17 SN240
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Philip Lindsey Clark
Birth Date: 10 Jan 1889
Death Registration Month/Year: 1977
Registration district: Exeter
Inferred County: Devonshire
Volume: 21
Page: 1189
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Philip Lindsey Clark
Year of Registration: 1889
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Lambeth
County: Greater London, London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 487
Handwritten note from Michael Clark, inserted in 'Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1'
25 October 1971
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. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1951, to be Presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting, 1952
February 1952
p. 2.
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Thursday, Jan 05, 1978; pg. 14; Issue 60202; col F
Mr Philip Lindsey Clark
Category: Obituaries
Citing this record
'Philip Lindsey Clark DSO, FRBS', 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_1220280251, accessed 03 Jun 2023]
