Frank G. Jackson
Born 1831
Died 25 December 1904
Active: 1873 - 1898
Second master of school
Institutional and Business Connections
Assistant principal of Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1877 (Probable) - 1898
Described as the 'Second Master' of the Central School.
Start date is given in 'Mr. F. G. Jackson', Birmingham Daily Post, 28 December, 1904, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 5, (1904-1906), pp. 75-76.
Assistant principal of Birmingham Society of Artists
1878 - 1885
Described as 'Second Master' of the Central School of the Birmngham Society of Arts and School of Design.
Studied at Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design
1850 (Circa)
Described as a pupil of the school 'more than fifty years ago'. See 'Mr. F. G. Jackson', Birmingham Daily Post, 28 December, 1904, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 5, (1904-1906), pp. 75-76.
Teacher of modeling at Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design
March 1873 - 1877 (Probable)
Jackson was already the Master of Practical Design, and was employed for two evenings a week to teach the Modelling Class. His skills are described as follows: 'The practical knowledge of Mr. Jackson of the mechanical process of Modelling in connection with his power as a draughtsman and knowledge of applied design, induce the Committee to believe that this arrangement will be highly conducive to the best interests of the School' [summary 'Annual Report' 1873]
Personal and Professional Connections
Worked with Edward Samuel Harper
Worked 'at modelling under Toft, the father of Albert Toft, the sculptor, and later with F. G. Jackson': see 'Mr. E. S. Harper', Birmingham Post in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 32, (1940-1941), p. 149, no dates are given.
Sources
Annual General Meeting, 6 February 1877
6 February 1877
p. 10.
Birmingham Biography, Newspaper Cuttings, 1872-1966 Birmingham Biography
See 'Mr. F. G. Jackson', Birmingham Daily Post, 28 December, 1904, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 5, (1904-1906), pp. 75-76.
Birmingham Society
of Arts and School of Design. Report for the Year 1873
1874
p. 4.
Meeting of the Committee held in the Rooms of the Society, Paradise Street, 27 March 1873 Birmingham Society of Arts and Government School of Art Minutes
27 March 1873
p. 3.
Citing this record
'Frank G. Jackson', 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_1205840994, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
