Michael Hewan Crichton

Works

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Prince Charlie
1910 (Presumed)

Portrait
1911

H.M. King George V
1911 (Presumed)

The knight from 'Undine'
1915

The nymph from 'Undine'
1915

Wee Mac
1920

The shell
1922

Mrs D. Kennedy
1944

Locations

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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

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Eighty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1910 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1910

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Forty-Six Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1911 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1911
p. 61.

Staff Book
1908 (Circa)
p. 116.

The Bromsgrove Guild. An Illustrated History, 1999
1999
p. 39 and p. 46.

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. 368