Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA, CVO
Born 26 May 1849
Died 31 March 1914
Active: 1868 - 1914
Country of birth and death: Germany
Painter, printmaker, enameller, theatre designer, film maker
Born in Waal, Bavaria. Died Bushey, Herts.
Wealth at death: £41,319 7s. 0d.
Probate date: 2 June 1914
Works
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Enamelled Copper Vase
1903 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Thirty-Eighth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903
'Enamelled Copper Vase'
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1891 - 1900 (Presumed)
Listed as a member of the Council from 1891 and from 1899 to 1900. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
President of Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design
1881 - 1882
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1891 - 1892 (Presumed)
Listed as a visitor to the Life School and the School of Painting. See Royal Academy 'Annual Report, 1890', (1891), p. 27.
Visitor at South Western Polytechnic
1895 (Presumed)
Listed as a visitor to the Art School in 1895. See 'The South West London Polytechnic Institute, The Art School’, pamphlet, 1895-1896, p. 3.
Personal and Professional Connections
Taught Cecil Laurence Burns
Studied for twelve years under Herkomer. Member of the Herkomer Institute, Bushley. See 'The South West London Polytechnic Institute’, prospectus 1895-1896, p. 3.
Taught W. Maitland
1895
Listed as a wood carver for Herkomer for ten years: see 'The South West London Polytechnic Institute’, prospectus, 1895-1896, p. 3, no dates are given.
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Lee MacCormick Edwards, ‘Herkomer, Sir Hubert von (1849–1914)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33836, accessed 13 April 2009]
The South-West London Polytechnic Institute, The Art School, 1895
7 October 1895
p. 3.
Citing this record
'Sir Hubert von Herkomer RA, CVO', 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_1205849290, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
