Florence Callcott Explained

Florence Callcott
Birth Name:Florence Newman
Birth Date:1866
Birth Place:St James, London England
Death Place:Hendon, London
Known For:Sculpture, medallist
Spouse:Frederick Thomas Callcott

Florence Callcott Florence Newman (1866 – 21 January 1938) was a British sculptor of portrait medallions and medals.

Biography

Callcott was born in the St James area of central London and studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art.[1] [2] She first exhibited a work at the Royal Academy in 1890 and then regularly at leading commercial galleries until 1930.[3] Callcott worked in bronze, wax and plaster on a wide variety of subjects.[4] She specialised in creating portrait medallions and showed examples at the Paris Salon in both 1897 and 1904 and at the Royal Academy in 1906 and 1907.[1] [3] In total she showed 21 works at the Royal Academy between 1890 and 1925 and also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and with the Society of Women Artists.[4] She married the sculptor Frederick Thomas Callcott in 1912 and they sometimes worked on commissions together.[2] [1] Callcott also painted miniatures, one of which is in the British Royal Collection, and she was elected an Associate member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters.[5] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII. Florence Newman. 2011. 13 January 2020. Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. 19 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220519153051/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1251119697. dead.
  2. Book: Grant M. Waters. Eastbourne Fine Art. 1975. Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950.
  3. Book: James Mackay. Antique Collectors' Club. 1977. The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze .
  4. Book: Sara Gray. Dark River. 2019. British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts . 978-1-911121-63-3.
  5. Web site: Portrait of a Girl. 13 January 2020. Royal Collection Trust.