Thomas John Clapperton Jnr
Born 1879
Died 1962
Active: 1910 - 1951
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor
Born in Galashiels, Selkirkshire. The son of John Clapperton, photographer (born c.1856 in Galashiels).
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.
John Scott Esq., RSA
1910
The Slave
1915
Bishop Morgan
1920
Bishop Morgan
1920
Hestitation
1922
Figure of a soldier
1922
Hostilities
1923
Tom Scott, Esq., RSA
1926
Garden figure
1929
Geo. Hope Tait Esq.
1930
Portrait Bust
1931
Veronica and Joan
1932
The Brook
1935
The Rt Hon. Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan)
1936
The pool
1937
The waterfall
1937
The artist's wife
1937
Jimmy Guthrie, international motor cyclist
1938
Cat
1944
Mrs Odell
1946
Cascade
1951
Locations
Address 4 Scotia Street Glasgow | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Lodger
Address 29 Cochrane Street St. John's Wood London | View on map
1914 - 1920
Also gave as his address: 5a Alma Square, St. John's Wood, NW8 (1917)
Address 35A Acacia Road St. Johns Wood London NW8 | View on map
1920 (Circa) - 1926 (Circa)
Address 1 Camden Lane York Way London | View on map
1939 - 1940
Address 32 Salman Street Kingsbury London | View on map
1946 (Circa)
Studio located at Hans Studios 43a Glebe Place London | View on map
1908 (Circa) - 1920
Home address in 1911: 10 Bridge Road, West Battersea [see Census Returns of 1911]
Studio located at 1 St John's Wood Studios Queen's Terrace London NW8 | View on map
1926 - 1946
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Special Loan Collection of Selected Modern Pictures, 1923
'The Breeze'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Sixth, 1922
'Hestitation'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Third, 1929
'Garden figure'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, One-Hundred-and-Eighteenth, 1944
'Cat'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Fourth, 1910
'John Scott Esq., RSA'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Fourth, 1920
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Fifth, 1921
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Seventh, 1923
'Hostilities'
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-Fourth, 1930
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Sixth, 1932
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Tenth, 1936
'The Rt Hon. Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan)'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Eleventh, 1937
'The pool'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twelfth, 1938
'Jimmy Guthrie, international motor cyclist'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twentieth, 1946
'Mrs Odell'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1915
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1927
'Garden figure'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventieth Annual Exhibition, 1931
'Portrait Bust'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1935
'The Brook'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1939
'The Late Jimmie Guthrie'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, 1951
'Cascade'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1908 - 1946
Exhibited 22 times, one or two works per year.
Took part in Competition for a Memorial for Animals, for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1931-1932
1931
Sumbitted a design and was awarded a premium of £10.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1938
Became fellow in 1938.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1951
Became honorary member in 1951 (?).
Note that in the 1951 'Annual Report', Clapperton is listed as 'retired'.
Honorary member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1951 - 1962 (Presumed)
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1913 - 1962
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1922 - 1924
Student at Galashiels School of Art
Student at The Glasgow School of Art
Student at Kennington School of Art
Student at Royal Academy Schools
1905 (Circa)
Awarded a gold medal and travelling studentship of £200 for sculpture in 1905. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1905', (1906), p. 32.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by William Goscombe John
20 January 1913
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [20 January 1913, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Nominator of Harold James Youngman
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Seconded by Albert Hemstock Hodge
20 January 1913
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [20 January 1913, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Studied under William Goscombe John
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in 1901 Scotland Census
as 'Drawing and Modelling'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist' under personal occupation, then as 'Sculptor' under service or employer, and as a worker
Sources
1881 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Melrose; ED: 1; Page: 25; Line: 13; Roll cssct1881_314; Year: 1881
1901 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Glasgow Barony; ED: 14; Page: 38; Line: 1; Roll CSSCT1901_298; Year: 1901
Artists' Papers Register
2007
http://www.apr.ac.uk/artists/searches/artistrecs.asp?ARID=GB/NNAF/P542275 (accessed 03/08)
Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Selected Modern Pictures, July 1923
July 1923
Cat. No. 146 (reference includes a short biography)
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN2190 RG78PN75 RD26 SD2 ED2 SN263
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Public Sculpture of Glasgow Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2002
p. 480
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1922. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1923
26 February 1923
p. 1
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1951, to be Presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting, 1952
February 1952
p. 3.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
20 January 1913.
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 31
Citing this record
'Thomas John Clapperton Jnr', 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_1204652106, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
