Albert Hemstock Hodge
Born 17 July 1875
Died 31 December 1917
Active: 1897 - 1917
Country of birth: Scotland
Country of death: England
Sculptor, architect
Born in Port Ellen, Argyll & Bute, Scotland. He trained as an architect in the Glasgow office of William Leiper (1839-1916) during the 1890s. His talents as a modeller resulted in a number of commissions from local architects and in 1901 he made most of the sculptural additions to the buildings for the Glasgow International Exhibition. On completion of this work Hodge moved to London, where he already had a number of patrons.
Amongst the many buildings that he worked on were: the British Museum; Cardiff Town Hall; Hull Town Hall; Welbeck Abbey; Deptford Town Hall; Royal Exchange Buildings, London; statues of Chippendale and Wedgwood for the facade of the Victoria and Albert Museum; the Institution of Civil Engineers, London; and pediment groups on the Parliament Buildings, Winnipeg, Canada. He also created statues of Burns for Stirling, Queen Victoria for Glasgow Infirmary and the memorial to the explorer, Captain Scott. Hodge was working on large figure groups for the Port Authority Building in London when he died, these works were completed by his assistant, Charles Doman. He died in Kensington, London.
This entry includes information from 'Sculpture by the late Albert H. Hodge', published in 'The British Architect', February 1918, p. 18.
Wealth at death: £11,677 17s. 1d.
Probate date: 13 April 1918
Works
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Designed RIBA Soane medallion design for an Institute of Architects
1897
Designed Design for memorial chapel
1898
A.J. Hodge, Esq.
1900 (Circa)
The late John Burnet, Esq., Architect
1901
Baptismal Font
1901
An Infant
1903
Baptismal Font
1903
Navigation and Mining
1908 (Presumed)
The lost bow
1913
Head of a boy
1913
Locations
Address c/o W Leiper, RSA Sun Building Glasgow | View on map
1897 - 1913
Address 31 St Vincent Place Glasgow | View on map
1899 - 1900
Address 290 Renfrew Street Glasgow | View on map
1901
Address 50 Bedford Gardens Kensington London W | View on map
1905 (Circa) - 1917
Studio located at 7 St Paul's Studios Talgarth Road London | View on map
1900 - 1905
Worked at Glamorgan County Hall Cathays Park Cardiff | View on map
1908 (Presumed)
1921
'The Council Chamber...the principal apartment in the building, is faced with Portland Stone; it has a stone screen behind the Chairman's dias connecting the two voting lobbies, arranged with this screen are two pedestals supporting figures by the late Mr. Albert Hodge, symbolical of a Druid and a Bard...'
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
'Two Plaster Reliefs '
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Seventh, 1913
Multiple works
Exhibited at Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1900
'A. J. Hodge, Esq.'
Exhibited at Forty-Second Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1903
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1900 - 1917
Exhibited 16 times, twenty-two works in all (portraits, architectural works, reliefs, figure groups in bronze and unspecified materials)
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Institutional and Business Connections
Candidate for membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors
2 March 1905 - 3 April 1905
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1907 - 1917
Died in 1917.
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant was Charles Leighfield Jonah Doman
Doman finished off some of Hodge’s works after his premature death in 1918. Overseen by Sir Thomas Brock.
HODGE, Albert H.’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U197940, accessed 13 Jan 2009]
Collaborated with Johan Keller
1911 (Circa) - 1915 (Circa)
Produced portraits and architectural sculpture together for architects James Salmon II and J Gaff Gillespie
Nominated by William Hamo Thornycroft
12 March 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Nominated by Thomas Brock
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominated by William Hamo Thornycroft
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominated by Aston Webb
19 November 1907
Nominator of Hibbert Charles Binney
1905 (Presumed)
Nominator of George Alexander
7 December 1908
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors [7 December 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Nominator of Charles Leighfield Jonah Doman
21 November 1910
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [21 November 1910, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Nominator of George Hardie
23 May 1910
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [23 May 1910, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconded by Frederick William Pomeroy
12 March 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconder of Thomas John Clapperton
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].
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in 1901 Scotland Census
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist' employer working at home
Sources
1901 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Glasgow Barony; ED: 2; Page: 26; Line: 16; Roll: CSSCT1901_297
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.263.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN96 RG78PN4 RD2 SD1 ED10 SN43
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Albert Hemstock Hodge
Probate Date: 13 Apr 1918
Death Date: 31 Dec 1917
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.5.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905; 12 March 1906; 2 March 1908; 7 December 1908; 23 May 1910; 21 November 1910; 20 January 1913.
Superb Buildings erected by E. Turner and Sons, Ltd, Builders and Contractors, Penarth Road, Cardiff
April 1929
p.18
Who was Who
December 2007
HODGE, Albert H.’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U197940, accessed 13 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'Albert Hemstock Hodge', 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_1211991136, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
