Rowland James Morris
Born 1842 (Circa)
Died 3 November 1898
Active: 1847 - 1898
Country of birth and death: England
Modeller, sculptor, potter's modeller
Born in Hanley, Staffordshire. He was the son of Charles Henry Morris (born c.1809 in Hanley) an engraver. Rowland was a student at Hanley School of Art and then at the South Kensington Art School (c.1863-5). Rowland Morris was the sculptor of the panels and statue for the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem 1865 to 1873. He was a modeller and then chief designer modeller for Robinson & Leadbeater in Stoke. Between 1885 and 1890 he worked for Moore Bros of St Mary’s Works (Bernard Moore), and for James Wilson of St Gregory’s Works. Around 1890 Morris became a freelance ceramics modeller, working for Shelley and Wileman.
Works
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Statue of Josiah Wedgwood
1873 (Presumed)
Locations
Address Rose Street Hanley | View on map
1861 (Circa)
Address Carron Villa Lower Wandsworth Road London | View on map
1871 (Circa)
Address 131 Bucknall New Road Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1891 (Circa)
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Copeland (William Taylor Copeland)
See Copeland 'Parian Copeland's Statuary Porcelain' (2007), no dates are given.
Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1873 (Circa)
Worked at Wedgwood concentrating on majolica ware [see Wilkinson, 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 105, and Copeland 'Parian Copeland's Statuary Porcelain' (2007), p. 91].
Studied at Hanley School of Art
1860 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 12, and 'Dictionary' (1947), unpaged. See also Copeland 'Parian Copeland's Statuary Porcelain' (2007), no dates are given.
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1873 (Presumed)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Modeller'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Artist'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Modeller Potter's Earth'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Modeller for Pottery'
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 12 and p. 45.
A Dictionary of Ceramic Artists
2007
p. 105.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
Class: RG9; Piece: 1933; Folio: 26; Page: 1; GSU roll: 542890
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 704; Folio: 61; Page: 5; GSU roll: 823342
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 2721; Folio: 42; Page: 9;GSU roll: 1341652
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 2167; Folio 112; Page 8; GSU roll: 6097277
Parian Copeland's Statuary Porcelain
2007
p. 91.
People and the Potteries. A Dictionary of Local Biography Volume 1
1985
p. 159.
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association Artists' Biographies from the Liverpool University Press series, Public Sculpture of Great Britain
Vols 1-9
[SBC2005] Rowland James Morris http://www.uea.ac.uk/~t009/ArtistBiography.htm accessed 19 October 2009
The Illustrated London News, 11 October 1873, 1873 Committee of the Council on Education, Science and Art
11 October 1873
p. 341.
Citing this record
'Rowland James Morris', 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_1219259572, accessed 26 Oct 2021]
