Professor Alphonse Legros HRSA

Locations

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Address Melbury Clarendon Road Watford | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1947 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1911 - 1947
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 4 times: 1911 (3 works), 1912 (8 works), 1924 (1 work) and 1947 (3 works).

Exhibited at Loan Exhibition of Works by Alphonse Legros (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1912
1912
Note that the works were exhibited posthumously.

Exhibited at Loan Exhibition of Works by Alphonse Legros (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery), 1913
1913
Note that the works were exhibited posthumously.

Institutional and Business Connections

Elected honorary member of The Royal Scottish Academy
1911
p. xxxvii

Principal of Slade School of Fine Art
September 1876 - June 1893
Listed as Slade Professor. The 1885 'Calendar' notes that instruction in sculpture was provided by Legros (p. 104). Legros is listed in these roles until 1892-1893.

Professor at Slade School of Fine Art
1873 (Circa) - 1893 (Circa)

Teacher at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1875 - 1881
Listed as Master of Etching. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.

Personal and Professional Connections

Assistant was Francis Derwent Wood
1891

Taught Lilian Vereker Hamilton
Forrer notes that Hamilton studied under Legros at the Slade School of Art, London from 1881 to 1886. See Forrer, vol. 7, (1923), p. 413.

Taught William Blake Richmond
See Forrer, vol. 5, (1912), p. 118. No dates are given.

Taught Sophia Rosamond Praeger
1888
While at the Slade School of Art

Taught Florence Newman
1890 (Circa)
Newman is listed as a pupil of Legros: see Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 254, no dates are given. However the Census Returns state she was an art student around 1891.

Teacher to Lydia Gay
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist 'of the school of Alphonse Legros': see Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 223, no dates are given.

Teacher to Gustav Natorp
Based on information in Lampert, 'Rodin', London, 2006, p. 35.

Teacher to Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé
Probably in the early or mid-1880s.

Teacher to Effie (Euphrosyne) Stillman
Probably in the early or mid-1880s.

Descriptions of Practice

Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer lists a number of medallic works including a portrait medallion of Thomas Carlyle (illustrated, p. 545). Legros exhibited at the New York International Medallic Exhibition in March 1910, and also exhibited a number of bronze portrait medals at the Royal Academy, London, in 1882. See vol. 7, (1923), pp. 545-546.

Sources

Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1923
pp. 545-546.

Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of works by the Late Francis Derwent Wood, R.A.
1926
p.7.

Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art. Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art with Appendices, 1911
1911
p. 60.

Irish Arts Review Yearbook, 2000
2000
pp. 34-35

Loan Exhibition of Works by Alphonse Legros, 1912
1912
pp. 1-22.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Timothy Wilcox, ‘Legros, Alphonse (1837–1911)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34480, accessed 25 July 2009]

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. xxxvii

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 3, L-Q
1991
p.37

University College London. Calendar. Session 1876-1877
1876
p. 44.

University College London. Calendar. Session 1885-1886
1885
p. 104.

University College London. Calendar. Session 1892-1893
1892
p. 79.