Clement William Jewitt
Born 1870
Died 1956
Active: 1893 - 1946
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, architectural modeller
Born Manchester, Lancashire. Father, William Henry Jewitt (c.1842-1910, born in Headington, Oxford and died in London), architect. His sister Marion (born c.1869), was an art student in 1891 and his brother Cuthbert (born c.1876), was a wood engraver, working on his own account, at home c.1901.
A provisional list of works includes: a portrait head of his sister, Hilda, 1893; 'Britannia mourning'; five war memorials c.1919-c.1922 (at North Collingham, Nottinghamshire; Howden, Yorkshire; St. Michael’s, Camden Town; St Matthews, Clapton; and Holy Cross, St Pancras) and a garden sculpture entitled 'The Four Seasons', 1946. For this last work Jewitt rented studio space from Gilbert Bayes. There is a possibility that Jewitt did some work in Örebro, Sweden c.1910. He died in Wood Green, London.
This record contains information from Clement's grandson, Crispin Jewitt.
Works
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Andromeda
1896 (Presumed)
Holda
1897 (Presumed)
Cellia
1898 (Presumed)
The Kingdon of Love
1899 (Presumed)
Captives: Group
1900 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 4 Torriano Cottages St. Pancras London England | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Address 15 Keith Grove Fulham London England | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Studio located at 3 Brecknock Studios London N England | View on map
1897 (Circa) - 1907 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Seventieth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1896
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Thirty-Second Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1897
'Holda'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1898
'Cellia'
Exhibited at The Thirty-Fourth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1899
'The Kingdon of Love'
Exhibited at The Thirty-Fifth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1900
'Captives: Group'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1900
'Captives'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Fourteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1896
'Thoughts'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1897 - 1907
Exhibited 5 times, one work each year, figure groups and statuettes.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Celia (cat. no. 1423, plaster bust, £20).
Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1895
Institutional and Business Connections
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1895 (Presumed)
Awarded a Landseer scholarship for sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1895', (1896), p. 29.
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, 1891
'Sculptor, artistic modeller' employed
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' working on own account at home
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor and Architectural Modeller' worker
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
Catalogue of the Fourteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1896
1896
Cat. No. 347, pp. 34, 40
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1900
1900
Cat. No. 166, pp. 24, 78
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 140; Folio 54; Page 40; GSU roll: 6095250
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 151; Folio: 64; Page: 51
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN202 RG78PN7 RD3 SD1 ED8 SN84
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Clement W Jewitt
Death Registration Month/Year: 1956
Age at death (estimated): 85
Registration district: Wood Green
Inferred County: Middlesex
Volume: 5f
Page: 540
Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
The Midwife. The British Journal of Nursing Supplement.
October 1934
p. 280
Quotes a letter from Clement W. Jewitt writing from his experience as an artist of the female figure and lamenting the present habit of slimming with its potential increase in death at child birth.
Citing this record
'Clement William Jewitt', 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=msib4_1202912988, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
