William Charles Holland King
Born 5 October 1884
Died 12 May 1973
Active: 1908 - 1952
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Father was Charles Holland King, lecturer in training college.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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The Mysteries of Death
1918 (Presumed)
£78 15s.
Resting
1918 (Presumed)
£26 5s.
The Preacher
1918 (Presumed)
£18 18s.
Resting
1918
Mask
1918
Ella, Wife of Lt.-Col. Barrett
1919 (Presumed)
Resting
1919
Life's cares they are comforts
1920
Pan's wiles
1920
The kiss
1920
Life's Cares they are Comforts
1923
Motherhood
1925 (Presumed)
£12 12s.
Pans Wiles
1925 (Presumed)
£26 5s.
Life's Cares they are Comforts
1925 (Presumed)
£115
Locations
Address 45 Middleway London England | View on map
1945 - 1950
Studio located at 2 Clifton Hill Studios St. John's Wood London NW England | View on map
Studio located at 6 Wychcombe Studios England's Lane London England | View on map
1918 (Circa) - 1926
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Award received from Prize for Distinguished Service to Sculpture (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1923-1949
28 December 1949
Awarded the Gold Medal
Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Twenty-fifth London Exhibition), 1919
'Bust of a Girl'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1910
'Head'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Second, 1918
'Resting'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Fourth, 1920
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1919
'Resting'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1923
'Resting'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1910 - 1952
Exhibited 37 times between these dates.
Exhibited at The Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Exhibited at The Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Exhibited at The Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925-1926
2 November 1925 - 6 February 1926
Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1905
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1926 - 1938
Became fellow in 1938.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1957
Became honorary member in 1957.
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 (Presumed) - 1945
Served as a member of the Council from 1938 to 1941, and from 1943
President of Royal Society of British Sculptors
March 1949 - 1954
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1905 (Presumed) - 1908 (Presumed)
Awarded a one year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture in 1905. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1905', (1906), p. 33. King won the same scholarship in 1908.
Vice-president of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1943 - 1947
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by James Alexander Stevenson
1926
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by William Reid Dick
1926
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Rosamund Mary Beatrice Fletcher
1945 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Leonard Byng
1948 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor - Apprentice'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor'
Sources
Catalogue for the Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925
1925
Catalogue for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1919
1919
Catalogue for the Seventy-Third Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1918
1918
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1910
1910
Cat. No. 404, pp. 35, 76
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Ref: Class: RG13; Piece: 2461; Folio: 135; Page: 12.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN589 RG78PN21 RD7 SD4 ED12 SN68
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1949, to be Presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting, 1950
February 1950
p. 2.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1950, to be Presented at the Forty-Seventh Annual General Meeting, 1951
February 1951
p. 2.
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.
Who was Who
December 2007
KING, William Charles Holland’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U156403, accessed 14 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'William Charles Holland King', 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_1222424830, accessed 22 Sep 2023]