Mr Alfred Ernest Child
Born 1875
Died 1939
Active: 1901 - 1938
Stained glass artist, teacher
In addition to his education at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, Child also served seven years' apprenticeship to Christopher Whall in London. In 1901 he was invited to Dublin to practise his craft and to teach at the Metropolitan School of Art. In 1903 he became part-time manager of SARAH PURSER' s new stained-glass workshop, An Tur Gloine, at 24 Upper Pembroke Street. By 1937 his sight had begun to fail. He died of a stroke in 1939.
As listed in Appendix L to Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the RHA and MSA, Dublin, 1906, p. 90 and from information collected by Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 91-92, and John O'Grady, The Life and Work of Sarah Purser (1996), 97,157n. See http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/1063/CHILD,+ALFRED+ERNEST+* (accessed 29 October 2013).
Institutional and Business Connections
Assistant teacher at Central School of Arts and Crafts
As listed in Appendix L to Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the RHA and MSA, Dublin, 1906, p. 90.
Mr. Child listed as
'Instructor in Stained Glass' at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin in 1906 and a former scholar under the London County Council, at the Central School of Arts and Carfts, London and Golssmiths' Institute). He passed four years' training under Mr. Christopher Whall, and was for two years assistant to Mr. Whall, at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London.
Officer of Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
1915
Studied at Central School of Arts and Crafts
As listed in Appendix L to Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the RHA and MSA, Dublin, 1906, p. 90.
Mr. Child listed as
'Instructor in Stained Glass' at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin in 1906 and a former scholar under the London County Council, at the Central School of Arts and Carfts, London and Golssmiths' Institute). He passed four years' training under Mr. Christopher Whall, and was for two years assistant to Mr. Whall, at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London.
Teacher at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
1901 - 1938
Taught classes in Stained Glass.
As listed in Appendix L to Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the RHA and MSA, Dublin, 1906, p. 90. Mr. Child listed as
'Instructor in Stained Glass'.
Sources
Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin - Prize List and Awards, 1915 Annual Distribution of Prizes
1915
p. 1, Child listed as an 'officer of the school'
Report by the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, together with Minutes of evidence, Appendices and Index, 1906
1906
As listed in Appendix L to Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the work carried on by the RHA and MSA, Dublin, 1906, p. 90.
Child listed as
'Instructor in Stained Glass'.
Salary or remuneration £3 0s. 0d. per week.
Citing this record
'Mr Alfred Ernest Child', 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=msib3_1216218626, accessed 29 Sep 2023]
