Jessie Lipscomb

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Camille Claudel (in the foreground) and Jessie Lipscomb in the studio

Jessie Lipscomb, married. Elborne (born June 13, 1861 in Grantham (Lincolnshire) , † January 12, 1952 ) was an English sculptor . She was friends with Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin and worked temporarily with them in a studio in Paris.

Life

Jessie Lipscomb was born in Grantham in 1861 to a waitress and coal mine agent. In 1875 the family moved to Peterborough . Jessie attended the National Art Training School in South Kensington , the predecessor institution of the Royal College of Art, founded in 1896. She won the Queen's Prize in 1882 and the National Silver Medal in 1883.

In 1884, Jessie Lipscomb began studying in Paris at the Académie Colarossi . Her mother arranged accommodation for a monthly allowance of 200 francs with her friend, the Claudel family, at 111 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. A few doors down, at 117 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, the daughter of Louis- Prosper Claudel, Camille Claudel since 1882 together with two other former graduates of the Art Training School - Amy Singer and Emily Fawcett - a joint studio in which the young women were taught by Alfred Boucher . During Alfred Boucher's trip to Italy, he met Auguste Rodin for the first time , who, on behalf of Boucher, was teaching the young women in the Rue Notre-Dames des Champs studio. For a short time, from November 1885, Jessie Lipscomb worked alongside Camille Claudel as Rodin's assistant in Rodin's studio at 182 rue de l'université. Jessie Lipscomb has been credited with work on Rodin's famous group of figures, The Burghers of Calais , among others .

Camille Claudel made a bust of Jessie Lipscomb in 1885, which she presented at an exhibition in Nottingham in 1887 . At her first major exhibition at Nottingham Castle in 1885, Jessie Lipscomb showed a terracotta bust of her father Sidney Lipscomb, a portrait study made of terracotta and a terracotta bust by William Elborne.

In 1886, Jessie Lipscomb and Camille Claudel traveled to England together to visit Jessie's parents in Peterborough. Rodin, who was also working in England at the time, visited both women in Peterborough. Jessie Lipscomb became Camille Claudel's best confidante. However, she also had a close relationship with Auguste Rodin, which is reflected in numerous letters in which Rodin and Lipscomb discussed the difficult relationship with Camille Claudel. In August 1886, Jessie Lipscomb visited the Isle of Wight with Camille and Paul Claudel . A cycle of charcoal drawings by Camille Claudel was created here. In the same year, Jessie Lipscomb and Camille Claudel exhibited together at the 6th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil an Watercolor and Aachitectural Design in Nottingham. While Camille Claudel showed a portrait study in bronze, Jessie Lipscomb was represented with a terracotta work, Day Dreams.

In 1887, both women worked on various jobs in their own atelier. Some photographs of sculptures by Jessie have come down to us. She exhibited again in Nottingham, this year a terracotta portrait study by Camille Claudel, another portrait study and one of her most famous sculptures, Sans Souci.

In the late 1880s, Claudel and Rodin's relationship became increasingly problematic and tense. Jessie Lipscomb now took on the role of mediator between the two artists. Despite the falling out between Rodin and Claudel and a heated argument between her and Camille Claudel at the end of 1887, she remained on friendly terms with both of them. Rodin also visited her in later years when he was in England. Jessie Lipscomb was one of the few friends who went to see Camille Claudel when she was sent to a mental institution for paranoid delusions in 1913, where she spent the last 30 years of her life. There is evidence that Jessie Lipscomb, married Elborne, visited Camille Claudel in Montdevergues ( Vaucluse ) in 1924 and again in March 1929. At this last meeting, William Elborne took a few photographs, which Jessie Paul Claudel asked for more intensive attention To take care of Camille Claudel.

family

On December 26, 1887, she married the pharmacist and chemist William Elborne.

William Elborne taught at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of London and then studied at Cambridge and settled as an analyst near Peterborough. The marriage had four children. One of her sons, Sydney Lipscomb Elborne (1890-1986) was a noted lawyer, justice of the peace, and holder of the Order of the British Empire .

With the marriage of William Elborne she ended her artistic career. Occasionally Jessie Lipscomb-Elborne made some private terracotta portraits of her family. She died at the age of 90 on January 12, 1952.

Works

Works by Jessie Lipscomb are only known from the years 1885 to 1887, when she worked with Camille Claudel in Paris. Works attributed to Lipscomb include: a.

  • 1885 portrait study
  • 1885 portrait by William Elborne
  • 1885 portrait by S. Liscomb
  • 1886 Day Dreams
  • 1887 portrait of Camille Claudel
  • 1887 Sans Souci

Exhibitions

  • 1885 5th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Color and Architectural Designs in Nottingham Castle Museum, (some works)
  • 1886 6th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Color and Architectural Designs in Nottingham Castle Museum, (Day Dreams)
  • 1887 7th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Color and Architectural Designs at Nottingham Castle Museum, (Study of a Head)
  • 1885 to 1887 The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts , summer exhibition, (one work represented every year)

reception

literature

  • Odile Ayral-Clause: Camille Claudel: A Life , New York 2002, ISBN 0-8109-4077-9 .
  • The Royal Academy of Arts: A complete dictionary of contibutors and their work from ist foundation in 1769 to 1904 , Volume 5 Lawrence to Nye, 1906, p. 71
  • 5th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Color and Architectural Designs in Nottingham Castle Museum, exhibition catalog 1885, p. 104
  • 6th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Color and Architectural Designs in Nottingham Castle Museum, exhibition catalog 1886, p. 97
  • 7. Annual Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Color and Architectural Designs at Nottingham Castle Museum, exhibition catalog 1887, pp. 75–76

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://maisalaun.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/camille-la-lumiere-de-rodin-une-femme-passionnee-par-lart-daimer-et-par-lart-de-vivre-sa -passion / Jessie Lipscomb's Years in Paris, accessed July 5, 2012
  2. ^ Reine-Marie Paris: Camille Claudel 1864–1943, Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-10-059003-9 , p. 27
  3. ^ Rencontre: Rodin et Camille Claudel | Rodin Museum. In: www.musee-rodin.fr. Retrieved June 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Maï SALAÜN: Camille la lumière de Rodin - une femme passionnée par l'art d'aimer et par l'art de vivre sa passion. In: Maï Savoir Is Riche. August 28, 2011, accessed June 25, 2016 .
  5. ↑ http://www.coopertoons.com/caricatures/jessielipscomb_bio.html Additional work on Rodin's works, accessed on July 5, 2012
  6. ^ S. Lipscomb, Esq .: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  7. ^ S. Lipscomb, Esq .: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  8. ^ W. Elborne, Esq .: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  9. ^ Reine-Marie Paris: Camille Claudel 1864-1943 , Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-10-059003-9 , p. 357
  10. ^ Reine-Marie Paris: Camille Claudel 1864-1943 , Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-10-059003-9 , p. 27
  11. ↑ Mademoiselle Camille Claudel: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  12. ↑ Day Dreams: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  13. ↑ Mademoiselle Camille Claudel: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  14. ↑ Study of a Head: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  15. ^ Sans Souci: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011, accessed July 4, 2012
  16. ^ Reine-Marie Paris: Camille Claudel 1864–1943, Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-10-059003-9 , p. 27
  17. ↑ http://maisalaun.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/camille-la-lumiere-de-rodin-une-femme-passionnee-par-lart-daimer-et-par-lart-de-vivre-sa -passion / Jessie Lipscomb in Paris, accessed July 5, 2012
  18. ↑ http://maisalaun.wordpress.com/tag/jessie-lipscomb/ Visit to Jessie Lipscomb-Elborne 1929
  19. ↑ http://www.rodin-web.org/claudel/bio/claudel_bio_3 . Jessie Lipscomb's wedding on December 26, 1887, accessed July 4, 2012
  20. ↑ http://www.coopertoons.com/caricatures/jessielipscomb_bio.html Jessie Lipscomb's biography, accessed July 5, 2012
  21. ↑ Miss Jessie Lipscomb, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database [1] , accessed July 2, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Lipscomb, Jessie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elborne, Jessie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English sculptress
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Grantham (Lincolnshire)
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1952