Michael Hewan Crichton
Born 1882
Died 26 November 1953
Active: 1898 - 1944
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, jeweller, goldsmith
Born in Edinburgh, moved to Birmingham in 1905. Crichton was indentured to a succession of three jewellers between October 1898 and November 1905 and became a member of the Incorporation of Goldsmiths of Edinburgh. He returned to Edinburgh in 1937 to work as Assay Master in the Goldsmith's Hall. (See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), pp. 39-40).
Works
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Prince Charlie
1910 (Presumed)
Portrait
1911
H.M. King George V
1911 (Presumed)
Wee Mac
1920
The shell
1922
Mrs D. Kennedy
1944
Locations
Address 22 Tudor Road Moseley Birmingham | View on map
1911 - 1915
Address 9 Stanmore Road Edgbaston Birmingham | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Living here with his mother and siblings
Address 33 Eastwood Road Cannon Hill Birmingham | View on map
1915 - 1920
Address Monsieurs' Hall Bromsgrove Birmingham | View on map
1920 - 1944
Address 26 Swanston Terrace Edinburgh | View on map
1944
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Eighty-Forth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1910-1911
'Prince Charlie'
Exhibited at The Forty-Sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1911
'H.M. King George V'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Sixth, 1922
'The shell'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, One-Hundred-and-Eighteenth, 1944
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Fifth, 1911
Multiple works
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-Fourth, 1920
'Wee Mac'
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Elkington & Co.
1907 (Circa) - 1919 (Circa)
See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), p. 39.
Employed at Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1907 (Circa) - 1919 (Circa)
See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), pp. 39-40.
Employed at Bromsgrove Guild
1919 - 1951
Became the Guild's chief modeller and 'he alone was responsible for all of the modelling of medals, medallions, figures and memorials until he left the firm in 1937'. Although Crichton letf the firm to return to Edinburgh, he continued to 'model medallions and other small items' for the Guild until 1951. See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), pp. 39-40.
Teacher at Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1 October 1911 - 1911 (Presumed)
Listed in the School of Art Staff Book as Assistant teacher of Modelling at the Moseley Road Branch School of the Central School of Art. Date of appointment is given, but no end date is specified.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Metal Worker' working for an electroplate manufacturer
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN17919 RG78PN1093 RD383 SD3 ED9 SN119
Staff Book
1908 (Circa)
p. 116.
The Bromsgrove Guild. An Illustrated History, 1999
1999
p. 39 and p. 46.
Citing this record
'Michael Hewan Crichton', 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_1205749727, accessed 01 Oct 2023]