Fanindra Nath Bose ARSA
Other names: Fanindranath
Born 1888
Died 1926
Active: 1909 - 1926
Country of birth: India
Country of death: Scotland
Sculptor
Works
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Boy in Pain
1913
Hunter
1924 (Presumed)
Daedalus and Icarus
1909
Portrait sketch
1913
Hunter
1915
Boy and crab
1915
The snake charmer
1918
Kathleen
1923
Athlete and hound
1923
Angel figure designed for stone for the memorial shrine, St John's Church, Perth
1924
Sacrifice of youth
1925
St John the Baptist
1926
Huntsman and hound
1926
The Hunter
1926 (Circa)
Portrait bust
1926 (Circa)
Locations
Studio located in Dean Studios Belford Road Edinburgh | View on map
1918 - 1926
4 Belford Rd
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Special Loan Collection of Selected Modern Pictures, 1923
'Statuette'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Sixth, 1922
'The snake charmer'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Third, 1909
'Daedalus and Icarus'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Seventh, 1913
'Portrait sketch'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Ninth, 1915
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Second, 1918
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Seventh, 1923
'Athlete and hound'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Eighth, 1924
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Ninth, 1925
'Sacrifice of youth'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundredth - Centenary Exhibition, 1926
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-First, 1927
'Portrait bust'
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
18 March 1925
In his reply to the Toast of the Associates, Bose said that "...at a moment of strained relations between Britain and India, this honour would reassure Indians that the Scots did not wish to thwart their legitimate aspirations"
Received award from The Edinburgh College of Art
1911
Awarded Diploma
Received travel scholarship from The Edinburgh College of Art
1911
£100
Student at Royal Institution of Art (Edinburgh)
1905
Student at The Edinburgh College of Art
1909 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Advisor to His Highness the Gaekwar of Baroda
1914 (Circa)
Appointed Sculptor under liberal terms. Bose was commissioned to execute a series of bronze figures of national historical personages of Baroda, and at the same time free to undertake other commissions. He was also the advisor to the Gaekwar for the technical schools in Baroda, where it was intended to develop bronze casting.
Nominated by James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
1924
Received award from George James Frampton
Assessor to Bose at the Edinburgh College of Art. His drawing and modelling was highly praised by Frampton.
Received award from William Goscombe John
Assessor of Bose at The Edinburgh College of Art.
Received patronage from William Goscombe John
Goscombe John acquired 'Boy in Pain', 1913 and 'The Hunter', 1914 from Bose. Both sculptures were included in gifts of works from Goscombe John to the National Museum of Wales in 1925 and 1928.
Received patronage from His Highness the Gaekwar of Baroda
1914 (Circa)
Appointed Sculptor under liberal terms. Bose was commissioned to execute a series of bronze figures of national historical personages of Baroda, and at the same time free to undertake other commissions. He was also the advisor to the Gaekwar for the technical schools in Baroda, where it was intended to develop bronze casting.
Studied under Percival (Percy) Herbert Portsmouth
1908 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Of his former pupil, Portsmouth wrote in Boses' obituary "Bose excelled in small sculpture; he had a phenomenal control of minutia. It was most interesting to watch his beautiful hands manipulate his tools, he was an exquisite craftsman, a true artist, showing delicacy and taste in everything he did"
Studied under Auguste Rodin
1912 (Circa) - 1915 (Circa)
Bose won Travelling Scholarship while at ECA, he spent it in Paris where he made a great impression on Rodin.
Worked with Robert Stodart Lorimer
1924
Memorial shrine, St John's Church, Perth.
Sources
Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations
1994
pp. 117-119
Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Selected Modern Pictures, July 1923
July 1923
Cat. No. 147
Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers
1980
National Museum of Wales: Collections Online
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_works&item=70&type=artist (accessed 10 October 2010)
Ninety-Ninth Annual Report of the Council of The Royal Scottish Academy, 1926
1926
p. 15
The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1909 -1910
1910
p. 24
The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1914 -1915
1915
p. 37
The Royal Scottish Academy Nomination Book for Associateship Rank, 1917-1931
p. 87
Bose recieved 31 votes
The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting Sculpture & Architecture 1826-1976
27 May 1976
P. 202
Citing this record
'Fanindra Nath Bose ARSA', 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=msib6_1203417853, accessed 30 May 2023]
