Robert Jackson Emerson

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Robert Jackson Emerson (born June 21, 1878 in Rothley , Leicestershire , † December 7, 1944 in Wolverhampton ) was a British sculptor , painter and medalist .

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Robert Jackson Emerson was the eldest of twelve children of the shoemaker John Edward Emerson and his wife Fanny nee. Bunney. He attended school until 1893, then began an apprenticeship as a shoemaker and attended evening classes at the School of Arts and Crafts in Leicester . In 1901 he obtained an art teacher license and taught part-time.

From 1901 to 1906 he won several recognitions, medals and book prizes for design , modeling and life drawing at local arts competitions in South Kensington . In 1902 he received the King's Prize and was able to study metal art and modeling in Rouen and Paris for a month . From 1906 he worked for the metal art company Collins and Company in Leicester, which made decorative metalwork such as jewelry, fittings and cast plates for churches. Emerson's first works were exhibited at the Grafton Gallery in Mayfair , London .

In 1910 he was appointed to teach at the Municipal School of Art in Wolverhampton . The aim of the work at the school was to teach the students techniques and skills in drawing, modeling, metalworking and the processing of stone and leather in order to be able to work in artisanal branches for the benefit of the local industry. A small proportion of the students should be trained as professional artists; among them his most famous student Charles Wheeler and Atri Brown , Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones , Geoffrey Hampton Deeley and Albert Pountney .

In 1920 Emerson founded a studio in Wolverhampton with the support of Norvall Graham, the editor of the local daily Express & Star , whom he described as "very best friend". He also made it possible for him to work on larger commissions for the city. From 1937 he also taught at the British School at Rome in London. In 1942 he stopped teaching. Despite serious illness, he continued to work on sculptures until his death in 1944.

Emerson was a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) from 1913 and a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (FRBS) from 1938 . He was not a member of the Royal Academy, but exhibited there.

Robert Jackson Emerson died on December 7, 1944 and was buried in Saint Philip's Churchyard in Wolverhampton. From 1898 he was born with Annie. Brewin (1875–1969) married and had a daughter Louisa Ann (1898–1969) and a son William Ralph (1900– ??). As Charles Wheeler announced in 1945 on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery , Winston Churchill beat the British King George VI. before paying the widow a pension.

Works

sculpture

  • 1917–1919: Morris Harris Memorial in Wolverhampton
  • 1918: John Henry Carless Memorial in Walsall
  • 1920/1921: Memorial to the 34th Division , two casts in Ovillers-la-Boisselle , France and on Mont Noir in Belgium near Bailleul (north)
  • 1923: War Memorial for Butler's Brewery in Wolverhampton
  • 1930–1935: Mary Gibson (Mary Gwenllian Gibson (1888–1966) was an artist and close friend of Emerson, who accompanied him to his deathbed. She is also buried in Saint Philip's Churchyard.)
  • 1932/1934: Mercury , frieze on the Express & Star newspaper building , Wolverhampton
  • 1940: The Young Aviator (Mother and Child)
  • Self Portrait , bronze bust

painting

  • Life Study
  • Sasso di Bordighera
  • Mary Gibson (1888-1966)
  • The Reverend John Hall How (1871-1938), MA , 1943
  • Landscape in Wales
  • Self portrait
  • Portrait Profile Study
  • Elms at Trysull

literature

  • Brendan Flynn (Ed.): RJ Emerson (1878-1944). Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museums, Wolverhampton 1984, ISBN 0-947642-00-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art Class Teacher's Certificate on blackcountryhistory.org
  2. ↑ a b The Young Aviator (Mother and Child) on wamscollections.collectionspress.com
  3. ↑ a b Express & Star Building on historywebsite.co.uk
  4. ^ The Municipal School of Art and Crafts on historywebsite.co.uk
  5. ↑ Robert Jackson Emerson on billiongraves.com
  6. ↑ Annie Emerson on billiongraves.com
  7. ↑ Louisa Ann Emerson on billiongraves.com
  8. ↑ Churchill Recommended Civil Pension As Tribute To Late Mr. RJ Emerson at wamscollections.collectionspress.com
  9. ↑ a b The Horsman Fountain and the Harris Memorial on historywebsite.co.uk
  10. ↑ a b A mobile memorial on nwwfa.org.uk
  11. ↑ Mary Gibson at wamscollections.collectionspress.com
  12. ↑ Mary Gwenllian Gibson on sculpture.gla.ac.uk
  13. ↑ The Kissed Mouth on fannycornforth.blogspot.de
  14. ↑ Self Portrait on weloveart.org.uk
  15. ↑ a b c d Robert Jackson Emerson - Artworks on the-athenaeum.org
  16. ↑ Landscape in Wales on weloveart.org.uk
  17. ↑ Self Portrait on weloveart.org.uk
  18. ↑ Portrait Profile Study on weloveart.org.uk
  19. ↑ Elms at Trysull on weloveart.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Emerson, Robert Jackson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emerson, RJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sculptor, painter and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothley , Leicestershire
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1944
Place of death Wolverhampton