Harriet S. Pettigrew
Other names: Hettie or Hetty
Born 1869 (Circa)
Active: 1891 - 1911
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, artist's model
Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. She and two of her sisters, Lillian S and Rosie A Pettigrew (born in Portsmouth c. 1859 and c.1876 respectively), worked as artist's models in the early 1890s. They shared a house in Musgrove Crescent with their older sister Christine (born c.1860 in Plymouth, Devon) who kept house for her siblings. In 1901 Hettie was visiting a tailor and his wife in Fulham with her sister, Iris. A decade later Hettie was the head of household, living with he mother and her sisters Christine and Florence, evidently she was able to support her family.
Works
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Locations
Address Musgrave Crescent Hammersmith London | View on map
1893 - 1895
Address Claybrook House 166 New King's Road London SW | View on map
1897 (Circa)
Address 131 Hurlingham Road Fulham London SW | View on map
1901 (Circa)
A visitor at this address
Address 21 Charlwood Road Putney London | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'Statuette'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1893 - 1898
Exhibited 5 times (an average of 2 works per show)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896
1896
Miss Lillian Pettigrew (cat. no. 1185, £15 15s.); Bronze Statuette (cat. no. 1227, £6 6s.).
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Artists Model' employed
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist Sculptor' working on own account at home
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist Sculptor' working on own account at home
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth, 1896 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1896
pp. 45-48.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. No. 801, pp. 75, 106
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 51; Folio 152; Page 5; GSU roll: 6095161
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 67 folio 56 page 40
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN2441 RG78PN81 RD26 SD8 ED10 SN2
Citing this record
'Harriet S. Pettigrew', 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_1251204430, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
