Percival (Percy) Herbert Portsmouth RSA

Works

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Sir D. Y. Cameron, RA, RSA, LLD

The Captive
1908

Remorse
1908

Miranda
1921

Bronze
1923

The Cloud
1924

Baby
1926 (Circa)

Captive
1927

The Scottish National War Memorial: 'Survival of the Spirit'; figures of Freedom and Charity
1927

Baby
1933

Reflections
1933 (Circa)

Study of a Child
1935

Study of a Peasant
1935 (Circa)

Labour
1938

Locations

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Address 28 Orts Road Reading | View on map
1891 (Circa)

Address 21 Guildford Street Clapham London | View on map
1902 (Circa)
Previous addresses include: 11, Lincoln Street, Chelsea (1901)

Address 65 Warrender Park Road Edinburgh | View on map
1903 (Circa)

Address 40 Wilkinson Street Lambeth London | View on map
1903
Living at this address when he got married.

Address 10 Viewforth Square Edinburgh | View on map
1904 (Circa)

Address 40 Warrender Park Terrace Edinburgh | View on map
1905 (Circa)

Address The Studio Westhall Gardens Edinburgh | View on map
1906 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)

Address 39 George Square Edinburgh | View on map
1910 (Circa) - 1928 (Circa)

Address Young Loves Rushden Buntingford | View on map
1940 (Circa) - 1953
Living at this address at the time of his death

Address given as 185 Bath Street Glasgow | View on map
1920 (Circa)
Address of the Glasgow Art Club

Studio located at The Studio, Rusden near Buntingford | View on map
1929 (Circa) - 1954 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, 1908
'Remorse'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
'Study of a Peasant'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Baby'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1921
Multiple works

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1923
'Bronze'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1926
'Baby'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1931
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1902 - 1952
Exhibited 28 times (27 times up to 1951), often one work but sometimes two or three each year.

Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1903 - 1954
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 49 times: 1903 (2 works), 1904 (3 works), 1905 (3 works), 1906 (2 works), 1907 (3 works), 1908 (3 works), 1909 (3 works), 1910 (2 works), 1911 (3 works), 1912 (3 works), 1913 (3 works), 1914 (3 works), 1915 (3 works), 1916 (1 work), 1917 (1 work), 1918 (3 works), 1919 (7 works), 1920 (3 works), 1921 (3 works), 1922 (2 works), 1923 (3 works), 1924 (3 works), 1925 (3 works), 1926 (2 works), 1927 (3 works), 1928 (3 works), 1929 (3 works), 1930 (3 works), 1931 (3 works), 1932 (3 works), 1933 (3 works), 1934 (3 works), 1935 (3 works), 1936 (3 works), 1937 (2 works), 1938 (3 works), 1939 (3 works), 1940 (4 works), 1943 (1 work), 1945 (5 works), 1946 (1 work), 1947 (3 works), 1948 (3 works), 1949 (4 works), 1950 (4 works), 1951 (4 works), 1952 (4 works), 1953 (3 works) and 1954 (6 works)

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1904 - 1952
Exhibited 24 times (an average of three work per show)

Exhibited at Franco-British Exhibition of Science, Art and Industries (London), 1908
1908

Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938

Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Seventh, 1923
1923
Convenor

Institutional and Business Connections

Adjudicated on a panel at The Edinburgh College of Art
1910 - 1926
p. 6 Served on the adjudication committee for the Award of Diplomas (Sculpture Dept)

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1926 (Presumed)
Became fellow in 1926.

Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1906
p. xxx

Elected RSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1923
p. xxx

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1926 - 1952
Retired in 1952.

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1926 - 1952 (Presumed)
Retired in 1952.

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1907 - 1952
Retired in 1952.

Member of The Scottish Modern Arts Association
1936 (Circa)
p. 22

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1933 - May 1935
Resigned his position owing to illness in his family

Professor of sculpture at The Edinburgh College of Art
1907 - 1929 (Circa)
Head of Sculpture

Teacher of sculpture at The Edinburgh College of Art
1925 (Circa)
p. 4 Instuctor in Bronze Casting

Personal and Professional Connections

Nominated by James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
5 November 1906
For memebership of Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Nominator of David Alexander Francis
1920
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Seconded by Edouard Lanteri
5 November 1906
For memebership of Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Taught Fanindra Nath Bose
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"

Taught George Henry Paulin
1908 (Circa) - 1910 (Circa)

Taught Phyllis Mary Bone
1912 - 1918

Descriptions of Practice

Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a sculptor and medallist 'residing in Edinburgh'. Forrer notes that the artist exhibited a bronze medallion entitled 'In Menoriam' at the Royal Academy, London, in 1912. See vol. 8, (1930), p. 143.

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Art Student'

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Fitter Biscuit Factory' worker and his father, Robert John Portsmouth (born c.1850 in Southampton) was a 'Smith Biscuit Factory' worker

Sources

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Eighteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1923
November 1923
p. 42

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Nineteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1926
November 1926
p. 83

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Seventeenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1921
November 1921
p. 48

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-first Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1931
November 1931
p. 57

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-second Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
November 1933
p. 79

Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1930
p. 143.

Catalogue of the Fine Art Section, Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
1908

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 75 folio 51 page 10

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Percival Herbert Portsmouth Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1874 Registration district: Wokingham Inferred County: Berkshire Volume: 2c Page: 397

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Percival Herbert Portsmouth Probate Date: 10 Sep 1954 Death Date: 29 Oct 1953 Death Place: Hertfordshire, England Registry: Peterborough

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
Name: Percival Herbert Portsmouth Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874 Age: 29 Spouse Name: Kate Emma Pope Spouse Age: 31 Record Type: Marriage Event Date: 13 Apr 1903 Parish: South Lambeth St Stephen Borough: Lambeth Father Name: Robert John Portsmouth Spouse Father Name: John Pope Register Type: Parish Register London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Stephen, South Lambeth, Register of marriages, P85/STE, Item 011.

Ninety-Ninth Annual Report of the Council of The Royal Scottish Academy, 1926
1926
p. 15

Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938 The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Vol. V LAWR-SHER
1981
pp. 330-1

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1933, to be Presented at the Thirteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1934
March 1934
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1934, to be Presented at the Thirty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1935
March 1935
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1935, to be Presented at the Thirty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1936
March 1936
p. 13.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
5 November 1906.

The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1908 -1909
1909
p. 11

The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1909 -1910
1910
p. 6 Served on the adjudication committee for the Award of Diplomas (Sculpture Dept)

The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1920 -1921
1921
p. 6

The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1925-1926
1926
p. 4

The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, MCMXLIX, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Third
1949
p. 54

The Ninety-Sixth Annual Report of the Council of The Royal Scottish Academy, 1923
1923
p. 9

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 6: Oakes to Rymsdyk
1906
p. 186

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 3, L-P. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1991 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1991
p. 384

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. xxx

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 3, L-Q
1991
p.486