Rosamund Mary Beatrice Fletcher
Born 5 August 1908
Died 18 February 1993
Active: 1938 - 1993
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Dorking, Surrey. Her date of birth is often given as 1914, however the register of births, marriages and deaths and Census Returns of 1911 indicate she was born in 1908. Rosamund was the daughter of the painter, Blandford Fletcher (1858-1937). She settled in Oxford. In about 1979 the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford held a joint exhibition of their work entitled: 'Father and daughter: Blandford Fletcher, 1858-1937, painter: Rosamund Fletcher, sculptor'. The entry in the probate calendar describes her as 'of the St Francis Convent, La Bocking, Braintree, Essex', which suggests she may have taken holy orders though she may alternatively have been cared for at the convent.
Wealth at death: £686,285 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 21 May 1993
Works
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Swan and cygnets
1950
Pastoral Symphony
1951
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fourth, 1950
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, 1951
'Pastoral Symphony'
Exhibited at Children in Sculpture (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1947
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1938 - 1965
Exhibited 21 times (13 times up to 1951), 34 works in all (primarily religious and animal subjects in bronze and stone)
Participant in Olympic Games Exhibition (London), 1948
1948
Received a bronze medal for a carved stone relief.
Won prize Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1940
One of two recipients of a £50 prize in this year. Fletcher won the prize for three reliefs that were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1940.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1945 (Circa) - 1957
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1957 - 1993
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1946
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by William Charles Holland King
1945 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Winifred Turner
1945 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN3188 RG78PN119 RD36 SD2 ED7 SN84
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Rosamund Mary B Fletcher
Year of Registration: 1908
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Dorking
County: Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 194a
Find a Will
2014
Name: Fletcher, Rosamund Mary Beatrice
Death Date: 18 February 1993
Probate Date: 21 May 1993
Page: none, week 70 1993
Citing this record
'Rosamund Mary Beatrice Fletcher', 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_1208185757, accessed 28 May 2023]
