Randolph Schwabe NEAC
Born 9 May 1885
Died 19 September 1948
Active: 1899 - 1948
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Scotland
Draughtsman, etcher, lithographer and painter
Born in Barton, Lancashire. He was the son of Lawrence Schwabe, a cotton manufacturer whose father emigrated from Germany in 1820. Randolph Schwabe studied at the Royal College of Art, the Slade School and at the Académie Julian, Paris. He exhibited with the New English Art Club from 1909, was a member of the London Group from 1915, and served as an Official War Artist in the First World War. His practice focused primarily on architectural and figure subjects. There are works by him in a number of public collections including the National Portrait Gallery and Tate. Schwabe Schwabe died at his home in Dunbartonshire - Auchenteil, 25 Suffolk Street, Helensburgh.
Probate date: 1 March 1949
Institutional and Business Connections
Adjudicated on a panel at British Artists' Exhibitions
Member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
Principal of Slade School of Fine Art
September 1930
Sources
Catalogue of the 75th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1934
1934
pp. 1, 55
Catalogue of the 76th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1935
1935
p. 1, 63
Catalogue of the 79th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1938
1938
pp. 3, 65
Catalogue of the 81st Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1940
1940
pp. 3, 63
Catalogue of the Eighty-Fifth Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1944
1944
p. 2
Catalogue of the Eighty-Fourth Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1943
1943
p. 2
Catalogue of the Eighty-Second Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1941
1941
pp. 2, 34
Catalogue of the Eighty-Third Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1942
1942
p. 2
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists
1927
p. 2
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Randolph Schwabe
Probate Date: 1 Mar 1949
Death Date: 19 Sep 1948
Death Place: Helensburgh
Registry: London, England
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Stephen Bone, ‘Schwabe, Randolph (1885–1948)’, rev. Terry Ann Riggs, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35978, accessed 17 June 2013]
University College London. Calendar. Session 1929-1930
1929
p. 117.
Citing this record
'Randolph Schwabe NEAC', 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_1232398135, accessed 21 Feb 2020]
