Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones
Born 1908
Died 10 December 1968
Active: 1928 - 1965
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Head of Sculpture Department at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen 1938. Died at his home on Broomfield, Essex.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Signor Canganelli
1928 (Presumed)
Rhoda
1935
J. Fenton Wyness, Esq.
1935 (Circa)
Torso
1935
Contributed to making of Model of Garden Ornament
1935
Portrait of a lady
1936
Thomas Innes, Esq.
1937 (Presumed)
Head
1937
Head
1937 (Circa)
William Smith, Esq.
1937 (Circa)
Head
1938 (Presumed)
Head
1938
Andrew Willox Esq.
1940
Vera
1940
Saint George
1942
James McDougal, Esq.
1943
Margaret
1943
Sir William Hamilton-Fyfe, Principle of Aberdeen University
1944
Hebe
1944
George Duncan, Esq., CBE, LLD
1945
Father, forgive them
1945
Mask
1946 (Presumed)
Carving
1946 (Presumed)
Sea-fantasy
1946
Mask
1946
Elijah
1947
Trophy, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
1947
Primavera
1948 (Presumed)
Eve
1948
Prof. D. R. Maccalman, MD, MRCPE
1949
Charles Archer Esq.
1950
Terra-Cotta
1951 (Presumed)
Mother and child
1951
Head of a girl
1951
David
1951
Locations
Address 136 Burford Road Wolverhampton England | View on map
1928 (Presumed)
Address 6 Albyn Terrace Aberdeen Scotland | View on map
1935 - 1936
Address 82 Stanley Street Aberdeen Scotland | View on map
1936 - 1940
Address West Park Primrose Hill Avenue Cults Scotland | View on map
1941 (Circa) - 1949 (Circa)
Address High House Broomfield Chelmsford England | View on map
1949 (Circa) - 1968
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Society of Artists Birmingham Spring Exhibition, 1928
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Spring Exhibition, 1937
'Thomas Innes, Esq. '
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Spring Exhibition, 1938
'Head'
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 1st Spring Exhibition for Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1946
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1946
'Carving'
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Spring Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1948
'Primavera'
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred- and-Sixteenth, 1942
'Fiddles Watt Esq., RSA'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, One-Hundred-and-Seventeenth, 1943
Multiple works
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 One-Hundred-and-Ninth, 1935
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Tenth, 1936
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Eleventh, 1937
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twelfth, 1938
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Fourteenth, 1940
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Nineteenth, 1945
'Father, forgive them'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twentieth, 1946
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-First, 1947
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Second, 1948
'Eve'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Third, 1949
'Prof. D. R. Maccalman, MD, MRCPE'
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 Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fifth, 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1935
'Torso'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, 1951
'David'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
'J. Fenton Wyness, Esq.'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1938 - 1968
Exhibited 28 times (12 times up to 1951 and work also shown posthumously in 1969), usually one or two works per year including many portrait heads.
Taught Course for Sculpture at Gray's School of Art, 1938
1938
principle teacher of sculpture
Took part in Royal Geographical Society commission for a statue to David Livingstone, 1951
1951
Asked to prepare a model for consideration by the R.G.S.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
29 March 1938 - 1945
Became a Fellow in 1945.
Elected ARBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1937 - 1946 (Presumed)
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as an Associate member in Spring 1937. No listings of Associate members from Autumn 1940 to Spring 1946; listed as a full Member in Autumn 1946.
Elected RBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1946 - 1950
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as a full Member in Autumn 1946. No listings of Members from Autumn 1940 to Spring 1946; listed as an Associate member in Spring 1940. Still listed as a full Member in Autumn 1950.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
8 March 1945
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1951
Professor of sculpture at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
1937 - 1947
Head of Sculpture Deparment
Studied at Wolverhampton Municipal School of Art and Crafts
Studied under R. J. Emerson (appointed in 1910). (See Flynn (1984), p. 6).
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
17 July 1931
Listed as a graduate from the 'School of Sculpture' in the College's 1931 'Distribution of Diplomas' list. Jones was awarded the £10 prize for sculpture in the same year. In the 1932 Diploma list Jones is listed as the recipient of the 'Travelling Scholarship' for sculpture.
Teacher at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1949 (Probable) - 1959 (Probable)
See Geoff Hassell notes that Huxley-Jones joined the staff in 1949 and 'taught there on a part-time basis for nearly ten years'. However, the artist is not listed in the school's prosectuses from 1949 to 1951 (the final year sampled for this database). Hassell, 'Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts', (1995), p. 104.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with J. Fenton Wyness
1935
Friends with Mary Gwenllian Gibson
Gibson and Huxley-Jones were part of a circle of artists and friends who met in Robert Jackson's Castle Street studio.
Nominator of Albert Willetts
1950
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Studied under Robert Jackson Emerson
Probably in the late 1920s
Wife/husband/spouse to (Rose) Gwynneth Cobden Holt
1934 - 1969
Worked with Frederick W. George
1938 (Circa)
Taught sculpture together at Gray's. [George was assistant teacher]
Sources
England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940
2002
First name(s) ROSE G
Last name HOLT
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1934
Registration month -
MarriageFinderâ„¢ ROSE G HOLT married
THOMAS B JONES
Spouse's last name JONES
District BIRMINGHAM
District number -
County Warwickshire
Country England
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Gray's School of Art Prospectus 1938-1939
1938
p. 6
R. J. Emerson FRBS RBSA (1878-1944), 1984
1984
p. 6.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 1st Spring Exhibition for Oil Painting and Sculpture, 1946
1946
p. 5.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1950
1950
p. 6.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Spring Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1948
1948
p. 13.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1946 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1946
p. 3 and p. 13.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Spring Exhibition, 1937 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
May 1937
p. 23.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Spring Exhibition, 1937 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
May 1937
p. 3.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Spring Exhibition, 1938 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1938
p. 23.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Spring Exhibition, 1940 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1940
p. 3.
Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 14 July 1932
14 July 1932
p. 1.
Royal College of Art, Distribution of Diplomas on Friday 17 July 1931
17 July 1931
p. 1.
Royal Society of Artists Birmingham Spring Exhibition, 1928
1928
p. 33.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1951, to be Presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting, 1952
February 1952
p. 2.
The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture
2004
p. 268
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Saturday, Dec 14, 1968; pg. 16; Issue 57434; col A
Deaths
Category: Deaths
Citing this record
'Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones', 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_1212681379, accessed 27 Sep 2023]