John Richard Clayton

Works

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Made Crimean War Memorial, near Westminster Abbey, London
1860

Locations

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Address 33 Camden Square St Pancras London | View on map
1861 (Circa)

Address 11 Fairfax Road Hampstead London | View on map
1881 (Circa) - 1913

Conducted a business at 311 Regent Street London | View on map
1879 (Circa) - 1913 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
Dates not recorded

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1861 - 1909
Exhibited 3 times, once under his business name Clayton and Bell, decorators, a design for a wall painting for All Saints' Home, Margaret Street, in 1861 (cat. no. 717) and twice under his own name 'The throne of music', design for a company's seal (cat. no. 1536) in 1898 and 'Narcissus', statuette, bronze (cat. no. 1729) in 1909

Personal and Professional Connections

Collaborated with John Birnie Philip
1860 (Circa)

Collaborated with George Gilbert Scott
1860 (Circa)

Friends with Henry Hugh Armstead
From the mid-1840s. Arsmtead was working for a company of silversmiths, Hunt and Roskell, whose workshop was close to Clayton's firm of stained glass designers

Descriptions of Practice

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Artist'

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Artist, Painter, Sculptor & Architect, Glass Painter etc.'

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Artist, Painter, Sculptor & Architect' employer

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Independent Means'

Sources

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
RG09 piece 119 folio 139 page 9

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 173 folio 15 page 23

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 113 folio 136 page 10

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN619 RG78PN22 RD8 SD1 ED29 SN289

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: John Richard Clayton Probate Date: 27 Aug 1913 Death Date: 5 Jul 1913 Death Place: Middlesex, England Registry: London

Post Office London Directory, 1879 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1879
p. 1383

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. II CAS-D
1977
p. 42

The Builder, Vol. 18, 13 October 1860
13 October 1860
p. 655

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 2: Carroll to Dyer
1905
p. 79

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 1, A-D. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1990 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1990
p. 268