Frances Isobel Swan
Other names: Mrs Frances Morcom
Born 1875
Active: 1895 - 1903
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Low Fell, Gateshead, Durham. Frances was the daughter of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (born c.1829), physicist and chemist whose principal achievement was inventing the incandescent light bulb. She married the engineer Reginald Keble Morcom (1877-1961) in 1904 and seems to have ceased practicing thereafter. Frances's sister, Mary E. Swan was also an artist.
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1900
'Marbles'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1904
'Adeline'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
Multiple works
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
'Adeline'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1895 - 1903
Exhibited four times, four works (three busts and a statuette all in bronze)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist sculptor' also listed at the same address was her sister, Mary E. Swan, (born c.1870 in Gateshead, Durham) 'Artist Painter (sculp)'
Sources
Catalogue of the Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
1899
Cat. No. 245, pp. 42, 52
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1900
1900
Cat. No. 186, pp. 26, 85
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1904
1904
Cat. No. 677, pp. 65, 106
Catalogue of the Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
1903
Cat. No. 283, pp. 46, 59
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 20; Folio: 156; Page: 17
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Frances Isobel Swan
Jul-Aug-Sep 1875
Gateshead, Durham
Vol 10a Page 948
Citing this record
'Frances Isobel Swan', 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=msib5_1208452949, accessed 30 May 2023]
