Richard Llewellyn Benson Rathbone
Born 1864 (Circa)
Died 1939
Active: 1891 - 1939
Country of birth and death: England
Art metal worker, teacher, designer
Born in West Derby, Lancashire. He was the son of Richard Rathbone, a Liverpool merchant. He trained with W. A. S. Benson in London who was a family relative. Richard set up a workshop c.1890 and continued production until the early 1900s when he became head of the Sir John Cass Institute in London. He was made an Honorary member of Sandon Studio Society in Liverpool in 1908 and was Chairman of the London County Council Consultative Committee on silversmithing.
Works
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Locations
Address 37 Northumberland Terrace Everton Liverpool | View on map
1900 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Sharing this accommodation with his assistant Harold Stabler in 1901
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Arts & Crafts Exhibition, 1900
'Case of Metalwork'
Speaker at Jewellery for Use (Art Workers Guild), 1917
Speaker at Modern Metalwork (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Institutional and Business Connections
Teacher at School of Architecture and Applied Art (Art Sheds), Liverpool
1897 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Instructor in copper and brass work for evening classes
Teacher of metal work at School of Architecture and Applied Art (Art Sheds), Liverpool
1897 - 1901
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant was R. Roberts
Possibly an assistant at Rathbone's Everton workshop c.1898-1902
Assistant was T. Pemberton
1898 (Circa) - 1902 (Circa)
In Rathbone's Liverpool workshops in Everton
Assistant was C. Hughes
1898 (Circa) - 1902 (Circa)
In Rathbone's Liverpool workshops in Everton
Assistant was Alfred Hughes
1898 (Circa) - 1902 (Circa)
In Rathbone's Liverpool workshops in Everton
Assistant was John Slade
1898 (Circa) - 1902 (Circa)
In Rathbone's Liverpool workshops in Everton
Assistant was Harold Stabler
1898 (Circa) - 1907 (Circa)
In Rathbone's Liverpool workshops in Everton, then in London at the Sir John Cass Institute
Collaborated with (George) Heywood Maunoir Sumner
And CFA Voysey, according to Bennett (1981)
Collaborated with Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
And Heywood Sumner, according to Bennett (1981)
Trainee of William Arthur Smith Benson
1885 (Circa)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Art metal worker' employer
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Design and art in metals' employer
Sources
Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1900
1900
Cat. No. 52, pp. 21, 79
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 2940; Folio 36; Page 6; GSU roll: 6098050
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 3475; Folio: 8; Page: 7
The Art Sheds, 1894-1905
1981
3 page entry on Richard LLewellyn Rathbone (catalogue is unpaged)
Citing this record
'Richard Llewellyn Benson Rathbone', 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_1208550388, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
