John Wenlock Rollins

Works

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Sir Clements R. Markham, KCB, FRS

Nydia

Nydia

Cardinal Newman
1893 (Presumed)

Night
1901 (Presumed)

A Water Baby
1901 (Presumed)

The Duchess of Bresali
1901 (Presumed)

Jacob and the Angel
1901 (Presumed)

Model for her late Majesty the Queen
1901 (Presumed)

A Water Baby
1902 (Circa)

Nydia
1902

A Water Baby
1902 (Presumed)

His Eminence the late Cardinal Newman
1902 (Presumed)

Nydia
1903 (Presumed)

A Sea Maiden
1903 (Presumed)

A Sea Maiden
1908

Locations

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Address 360 The Green Kennington Road London | View on map
1887 (Circa)

Address 52 Gloucester Crescent London NW | View on map
1888 (Circa)

Address 36 Bartholomew Road London NW | View on map
1889 (Circa)

Address 66 Glebe Place Chelsea London | View on map
1893 (Presumed)

Address 72 Cheyne Walk Chelsea London | View on map
1900 (Circa) - 1906 (Circa)

Address 14 Wetherby Place South Kensington London | View on map
1910 (Circa)

Studio located at Cedar Studios Glebe Place London SW3 | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1904 (Circa)

Studio located at Studio, 6 Wetherby Mews London SW | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1913 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'Sir Clements R. Markham, KCB, FRS'

Exhibited at The Sixty-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Royal Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1893
'Cardinal Newman'

Exhibited at The Thirty-sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1901
'The Duchess of Bresali'

Exhibited at The Thirty-Seventh Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1902
'His Eminence the late Cardinal Newman'

Exhibited at The Thirty-Eighth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903
'Nydia'

Exhibited at The Seventy-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903
'A Sea Maiden'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1902
'Nydia'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1910
'Nydia'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1902
Multiple works

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1908
'A Sea Maiden'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1887 - 1913
Exhibited 15 times, usually one work, sometimes two (chiefly busts and statuettes).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the nineteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1889
1889
Study of an Old Man (cat. no. 1505, bronzed, £7 7s.).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Mrs Charles Ritchie (Miss Ruth Jennings) (cat. no. 1427, plaster bust, not for sale); John Da Costa, Esq. (cat. no. 1433, plaster bust, not for sale).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Nydia (cat. no. 1538, head, marble, not for sale).

Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Fifty-Seventh, 1902
1902

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
A Sea Maiden (cat. no. 1492, plaster statuette, £105).

Institutional and Business Connections

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 1921
Amongst the suggested second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]: but name removed from list following further discussion at next meeting [3 April 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1886 (Presumed) - 1889 (Presumed)
Awarded a second silver medal for a model of a statue or group in 1886. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1886', (1887), p. 34. In 1887, Rollins won a first prize silver medal for a model of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1887', (1888), p. 32. In 1889, Rollins won a first prize of £50 for a set of three models of a figure from the life. See 'Royal Academy, 1889', (1890), p. 36.

Personal and Professional Connections

Assistant to Thomas Stirling Lee
1892
with the panels for St. George's Hall, Liverpool

Nominated by Frederick William Pomeroy
5 February 1906
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Seconded by Thomas Stirling Lee
5 February 1906
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' working on own account at home

Sources

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1899
1899
p.38.

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Eleventh Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1902
October 1902
p. 48 (615)

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1886, 1887 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1887
p. 34.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1887, 1888 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1888
p. 32.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1889, 1890 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1890
p. 36.

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first, 1901 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1901
p. 45

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.

Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.

Catalogue for the Fifty-Seventh Exhibition of the Bristol Academy for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, 1902
1902

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1902
1902
Cat. No. 493, pp. 47, 70

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1910
1910
Cat. No. 696, pp. 57, 83

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 78; Folio: 130; Page: 74

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Vol. V LAWR-SHER
1981
p. 411

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Seventy-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1903
1903
p. 59.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Sixty-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1893
1893

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Eighth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1903
1903
p. 60.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Seventh Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1902
1902
p. 55.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1901
1901
pp. 62-63.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1921. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1921
1921
p. 5

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905; 3 April 1905; 5 February 1906.

The New Sculpture
1983
multiple references, see p. 249 for biography

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 6: Oakes to Rymsdyk
1906
p. 354