John Joseph Brownsword
Born 1865 (Circa)
Active: 1881 - 1920
Country of birth and death: England
Headmaster of art school, pottery painter
Born in Derby, Derbyshire. He was the son of John Brownsword (born c.1833), railway labourer and gardner. John Joseph started his career as a painter of pottery and then in the 1890s trained as a teacher. He obtained a post in teaching at a school in Worcester and then became headmaster of Wolverhampton School of Art in 1905.
Locations
Address 92 Boyer Street Derby | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address 108 Boyer Street Derby | View on map
1891 (Circa)
Class: RG13; Piece: 2779; Folio: 161; Page: 33
Address 42 Britannia Square Worcester | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Address 142 Tettenhall Road Wolverhampton | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Institutional and Business Connections
Principal of Wolverhampton Municipal School of Art and Crafts
1905 (Circa) - 1920 (Circa)
These dates are provided by Charles Wheeler, 'Wolverhampton College of Art' in The Birmingham Post (12 June, 1950).
Brownsword is listed as principle in the School's 1912-1913 'Syllabus', p. 9.
Personal and Professional Connections
May be connected to Harold Brownsword
Both have connections to the Midlands so may be related
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Art Master' worker for 'Boro' Council
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Artist on China'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'China Artist [overwritten] Earth'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Art Master School'
Sources
'Wolverhampton College of Art', The Birmingham Post
12 June 1950
Unpaged.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 3401 folio 40 page 20
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 2733 folio 37 page 24
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 2779; Folio: 161; Page: 33
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN17017 RG78PN1051 RD369 SD4 ED8 SN58
Syllabus 1912-1913. School of Art and Technical School, 1912-1913
1912
p. 9.
Citing this record
'John Joseph Brownsword', 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_1242379312, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
