Herbert Harry Cawood
Born 1890
Died 1957 (Circa)
Active: 1911 - 1949
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, silversmith
Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Started working as a silversmith whilst studying art. Enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps on 11 December 1915. Probably died at Worthing, Sussex.
Works
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Locations
Studio located at 4 Radnor Studios Radnor Street, King's Road London SW3 | View on map
1920 (Circa) - 1926 (Circa)
Studio located at 2 St Oswald's Studios Sedlescombe Road London SW6 | View on map
1926 (Circa) - 1949 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1928
'On the Menin Road'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1920 - 1923
Exhibited 4 times, one work each year (two in 1923), all portrait busts.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
30 March 1943 - 1946
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1946 - 1952
Honorary treasurer of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1944 - 1946
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1944 - 1946
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1915 (Presumed)
Awarded a £5 prize and a silver medal for a model of a medal or coin, and a £10 second prize and bronze medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life, in 1915. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1915', (1916), pp. 40-41.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by John Francis Kavanagh
1943 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
1943 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Art Student (Designer)' and employed as a silversmith
Sources
British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
2008
Image: 2823 (accessed 4 February 2010)
British Phone Books, 1885-1984
2007
1949; London Surnames A - D; p. 566 (accessed 4 February 2010)
Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1928
1928
Cat. No. 193, p. 9
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN27843 RG78PN1593 RD509 SD7 ED13 SN112
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Yea of registration: 1957; Age at death (estimated): 67; Registration district: Worthing; Inferred County: Sussex; Vol: 5h; Page: 847
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep;
District: Ecclesall Bierlow;
County: Derbyshire, Yorkshire - West Riding; Volume: 9c; Page: 393
Citing this record
'Herbert Harry Cawood', 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_1213271722, accessed 30 May 2023]