Richard Lunn
Born 1840 (Circa)
Active: 1901 - 1915
Country of birth and death: England
Artist, designer of pottery and silverwork, teacher of pottery
Born in Bromley, Kent. Married to Elizabeth V. Lunn (born c. 1847) teacher of art embroidery. His daughter Dora Lunn (b.c1882) was also a potter. Lunn was the author of 'Pottery: a hand-book of practical pottery for art teachers and students' published by Chapman and Hall, 1903-10.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at The Work of Alfred Stevens (Art Workers Guild), 1912
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1901
Listed as a Pottery Instructor. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. No end date its given; however, it is likely that Lunn was still teaching at the school when the list was published in 1911.
Teacher at Camberwell School of Art
September 1908 - June 1915
Listed as a teacher of evening classes in pottery.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist, designer of pottery and silverwork, instructor in pottery at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist instructor for pottery'
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1912, p.5.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 1199; Folio: 40; Page: 5.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN6949 RG78PN344 RD128 SD5 ED22 SN414
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
Was asked by the Society to give a lecture on 'Pottery' (18 November 1912, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1).
Citing this record
'Richard Lunn', 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_1245247723, accessed 07 Jun 2023]
