Hugues Protât
Active: 1835 - 1871
Country of birth and death: France
Modelling tutor
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Minton and Company
1845 (Circa) - 1858 (Circa)
See Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 120.
Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1851 (Circa) - 1863 (Circa)
Gained comissions from Wedgwood: see Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 120. Went to Wedgwood as a modeller in 1858 and continued to design for Wedgwood until he returned to France in c. 1871: see Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 290.
Teacher of modeling at Stoke School of Art
1850 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 13 and p. 21.
Wilkinson suggests that the artist taught evening modelling classes at Hanley and Stoke Schools of Art from 1850 to 1864: see Wilkinson 'Ceramic Artists' (2007), p. 120. See also Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 290.
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 13 and p. 21.
A Dictionary of Ceramic Artists
2007
p. 120.
The Dictionary of Minton
1990
p. 292.
The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 290.
Citing this record
'Hugues Protât', 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_1222081209, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
