Nelson Ethelred Dawson (1859 - 1941) was a British The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border, sharing it with artist and member of the Arts and Crafts movement The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, Australian, and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. Inspired by the writings of John Ruskin and a romantic idealization of a craftsperson taking pride in their personal handiwork, it was at its height between.
Dawson was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire. It also borders Northamptonshire for just 19 metres, England's shortest county boundary. The county town is the city of Lincoln, where the county council has its and educated at Stamford School. He lived in London London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major city for two millennia, and its history goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries. Since at least the nineteenth century, the name "London", where he operated his workshop first from Chelsea Chelsea is an area of south-west London, England, bounded to the south by the River Thames, where its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road and Chelsea Harbour. Its eastern boundary was once defined by the River Westbourne, which is now in a pipe above Sloane Square tube station. The modern eastern and in due course from the rear of his townhouse in Chiswick Chiswick (pronounced /ˈtʃɪzɪk/ ) is an area of West London, located 5.9 miles (9.5 km) west of Charing Cross, which covers the eastern part of the London Borough of Hounslow. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. He exhibited his art throughout England including at the Royal Academy and was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours and a Fellow A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who work together as peers in the pursuit of knowledge or practice of the Royal Society of Engravers.
As a potter, watercolour painter, jeweller, silversmith, metalworker, etcher, print-maker and writer on artistic subjects, his reputation has probably suffered because he spread his talents too thinly. Nevertheless, both the British Museum The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.[a] and the Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to now cover some 12.5 acres (0.05 km2) and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5000 years of art, hold collections of his work and papers, and together with his wife, Edith (née Robinson), he was one of the key figures in the jewellery of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Together, they revived the Renaissance The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Florence in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historic era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform across Europe, this is a general use of the practice of enamelling in their jewellery. Edith learned enamelling from her husband who had been taught by Alexander Fisher, a master enameller who in turn had learned his craft in France.
The bronze organ grill in Holy Trinity, Chelsea (described by former Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman as the ‘Cathedral of the Arts & Crafts Movement’) is Dawson’s work and takes its place beside treasures by William Morris William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The and Sir Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was an English artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the. Other commissions included a trowel and mallet and trowel used by Queen Victoria Victoria was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death. Her reign as the Queen lasted 63 years and 7 months, longer than that of any other British monarch before or since, and her reign is the longest of any female monarch in in her last public appearance, laying the foundation stone of the V & A Museum in 1899, the casket presented to Woodrow Wilson on his visit to England en route to the 1919 Peace Conference at Versailles [1], lavish bath fittings for Viscount Hambleden in copper and silver, and the gates of Hull Town Hall.
In 1901, Dawson founded The Artificers' Guild from his workshop in Chiswick but it was acquired by Montague Fordham (one time director of the Birmingham Guild and School of Handicrafts) in 1903.
He is noted for his maritime scenes.
Dawson left many of his pictures to Stamford School but although a number of etchings and watercolours still decorate the walls of the school, not all of these were stored or displayed properly and some were even painted over and used by pupils as blank canvases.[1]
A retrospective of his work at Stamford Museum closed on 26 January 2008.
Further reading
- Nelson and Edith Dawson, silversmiths and decorative artists: Victoria & Albert Museum papers, 1822-1939.
AAD/1987/7, AAD/1988/8, AAD/1991/9, AAD/1992/4
References
- ^ Douglas, W. Some Happenings. Unpublished manuscript. (Available from the Stamford School Archive).
External links
Categories: Arts and Crafts Movement artists | English designers | Old Stamfordians | 1859 births | 1941 deaths | People from Stamford
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