Head of William Morris

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Dimensions: 99 x 83 x 51
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: S60
Owner: Waltham Forest Labour Party
Credit notes: On loan from Waltham Forest Labour Party

This bust of William Morris was formerly on display in the William Morris Hall, Somers Road, Walthamstow. The unknown artist may have used the bronze bust of William Morris (S35) as a model, as this would have been on display in the Walthamstow Public Library at the time.

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Dimensions: 57 x 33 x 33
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: S59
Owner: Waltham Forest Labour Party

PLaster bust of William Morris, formerly on display in the William Morris School, London Borough of Waltham Forest until 1989 when the school closed.

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Date: c.1890?
Dimensions: 15 x 6.5
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: S54
Artist: Chaplin, Alice Mary (1848 - 1921)
Credit notes: Presented by C. J. Whall, 1973

Alice Mary Chaplin was born in Sudbury Suffolk. Chaplin moved to London to study sculpture and settled in Chelsea. She produced statuettes and sculpture groups, often of animals, in bronze and terracotta. This is a plaster model of two lovebirds for a door-knocker. Between 1877 and 1900, Chaplin exhibited 18 works at the Royal Academy in London. She exhibited a statuette of a puma at the 1903 Arts and Crafts exhibition in London. Chaplin died at Fulham in London in 1921.

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Dimensions: 75.5 x 45.1
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: S44a
Attributed artist: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Credit notes: Presented by Messrs Hallett, Fox & White, 1950

This panel was designed by George Jack and was formerly part of an overmantle, to the right of the of two other plaster panels (S44b) and ‘The Bird’s Nest’ (S44c), at number 41, Oakleigh Park, Friern Barnet, one of several houses in the locality by Arthur Keen. It was removed in 1950. The two outer panels (S44a and S44c), which form a pair, are slightly later than the central panel. A polychrome version of the same design was in the collection of the textile manufacturer James Morton (1867-1943), son of Alexander Morton, the founder of the Scottish textile firm.

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Date: c.1904
Dimensions: 75.5 x 45.1
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: S44c
Artist: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Credit notes: Presented by Messrs Hallett, Fox & White, 1950

This panel was designed by George Jack and was formerly part of an overmantl, to the left of two other plaster panels (S44b) and ‘The Woodman’ (S44a), at number 41, Oakleigh Park, Friern Barnet, one of several houses in the locality by Arthur Keen . It was removed in 1950. The two outer panels (S44a and S44c), which form a pair, are slightly later than the central panel. A polychrome version of the same design was in the collection of the textile manufacturer James Morton (1867-1943), son of Alexander Morton, the founder of the Scottish textile firm.

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Date: c.1904
Dimensions: 45.8 x 48.3
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: S44b
Artist: Jack, George Washington Henry (1855 - 1931)
Credit notes: Presented by Messrs Hallett, Fox & White, 1950

This panel was designed by George Jack and was formerly part of an overmantle, flanked by two high-relief plaster panels of ‘The Woodman’ (S44a) and ‘The Bird’s Nest’ (S44c), at number 41, Oakleigh Park, Friern Barnet, one of several houses in the locality by Arthur Keen . It was removed in 1950. A polychrome version of the same design was in the collection of the textile manufacturer James Morton (1867-1943), son of Alexander Morton, the founder of the Scottish textile firm.

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Date: 1890
Dimensions: 51 x 23 x 21.5
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: BrS26
Artist: Meunier, Constantin Emile (1831 - 1905)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1940

Constantin Meunier was a Belgian sculptor and painter. In his work he chose to depict industrial workers, dockers and miners, elevating them as icons of the industrial age. This figure portrays the proud, athletic figure of a dock labourer but it was also Meunier’s intention to show the alienation of the individual through labour. A first version in wax was exhibited in 1885 in Brussels at the Salon des XX and a plaster version at the National Society of Fine Arts, Paris in 1998 where it was received with enthusiastic praise “… never have we had such an intense figure, with such a tragic expression and touching, energy, crushing, suffering and resignation’.
Meunier was one of the main artists to be exhibited at the Paris based art dealer, Siegfrid Bing’s influential L’Art Nouveu exhibitions, held at the Grafton Galleries in London in the 1897 and 1899. Frank Brangwyn designed the posters for the exhibitions and possibly acquired this figure around the same time.
Formerly known as ‘Coal Heaver’ a bronze version of the statuette is illustrated in the article by Walter Shaw Sparrow ‘Constantin Meunier: The Artist of the Flemish Collieries’ in the Studio Vol. 11 July 1897 pp.75 – 86, illus. p.79. An identical plaster version (not coloured), with the title ‘Le Debardeur’, is illustrated in the review of the Antwerp exhibitiion in ‘Studio Talk’, The Studio Vol. 15 No 69 Dec 1898 pp.201 – 202 illus. p. 200.

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Date: 1900
Dimensions: 42 x 26.7 x 22.9
Object Type: sculpture
Material: plaster
Catalogue number: BrS28
Artist: Creswick, Benjamin (1853 - 1946)
Credit notes: Brangwyn gift, 1950

Man in shirt, trousers and apron seated on an anvil looking slightly downwards and leaning forwards to rest his arm on one knee, his foot resting on a pile of horse-shoes below and hammer and pincers, holding a long-handled mallet in one hand, the other resting on the edge of the anvil.

Material: plaster

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