W. H. THORNYCROFT A.R.A.

W. H. THORNYCROFT A.R.A.

Studio portrait of William Hamo Thornycroft

1883

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher

D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher

W. H. Thornycroft, ARA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Parkin Mayall (1839-1922), 1883

F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p.

Thornycroft, William Hamo (1850-1925), English sculptor

June 1884

Photograph registered September 24, 1883 (form completed September 14, 1883). Copyright owner of photograph, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph, Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/253).

Description: “Photograph of W H Thornycroft and interior of his studio situate [sic] at Moreton House, Melbury [Road], Kensington, London. Seated at work, profile.”

The sculptor is seated on a stool in his studio, working on a plaster bust.

“Our Note Book.” The Illustrated London News 35 (July 12, 1884): 26. "The June number of “Artists at Home” contains portraits and views of the studios of G. F. Watts, R.A., W. H. Thornycroft, A.R.A., W. F. Yeames, R. A., and J. MacWhirter, A.R.A.  Considering that this is a purely artistic work, it is surprising that the artists represented have not exercised a more beneficial control over the arrangement and production of the pictures. . . ."

“The Reader.” The Graphic, issue 767, August 9, 1884. "Part IV of “Artists at Home” (S. Low and Co.), containing the portraits of Messrs. Watts, Thorneycroft [sic ], Yeames, and MacWhirter is now published. The illustrations are fully equal both in interest and quality to its three predecessors."

Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984), p. 211, fig. 404.

Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 181, fig. 85.

Helen Valentine, ed., Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection (London: Royal Academy of Arts in association with Yale University Press, 1999), p. 158.

Thornycroft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1884, portrait bust, plaster (Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey, England).

The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program.

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Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Omeka record contributed by Vanessa Pike

September 29, 2016

December 9, 2016
January 20, 2017, by LM
March 7, 2017, by LM

Photoengraving on copper

21.7 cm x 16.6 cm

(Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | W.H. THORNYCROFT A.R.A.

Another version of the photograph was copyrighted on September 14, 1883: Copyright owner of photograph: Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph: Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London. Description: "Photograph of Mr H Thornycroft ARA and interior of his studio situate at Moreton House, Melbury [Road], Kensington. Standing, at work, 3/4 face" (National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/254).