LAMBETH POTTERY GEORGE TINWORTH DOULTON POTTER MODELLER VINTAGE LETTER LONDON
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:42215751 | Item: Original letter |
| Company: Doulton | Author: George Tinworth |
| Era: Pre-1900 | Trade: Pottery designer artist modeler |
| Type: Ephemera | Pottery: Lambeth Pottery |
GEORGE TINWORTH 1890ORIGINAL LETTER 1890 OF TWO SIDES MANUSCRIPT WITH SIGNATURE. READS AS FOLLOWS :-Dear Madam,
I write in answer to your letter concerning the boy that you are interested in I think if he has got talent for art he ought to go to an art school or copy nature wherever he sees it in outline, but I would not advise him to take to art if he can find anything better to do for it is a great struggle.......etc.PLEASE SEE SCANS.THERE IS NO ENVELOPE.QUESTIONS MOST WELCOME.Ge...orge TinworthRoyal Doultons George Tinworth was their most important designer of decorative vases, jugs and humorous figures and animals.George Tinworth (1843 – 1913), was born in Walworth in 1843 the son of a wheelwright. George was supposed to work with his father but he liked to spend his time carving bits of wood. George Tinworth’s talent as a modeller and potter were recognised by J. C. L. Sparkes, the headmaster at Lambeth School of Art, where Tinworth, having pawned his overcoat to pay for his fees, studied pottery.At the age of 21 George won a place at the Royal Academy School.After Tinworth’s father died, and he was struggling to support himself and his mother, Sparkes persuaded his friend Henry Doulton to employ Tinworth to decorate pottery.In 1866 George Tinworth went to work for Royal Doulton.He eventually became their most important designer of decorative vases, jugs and humorous figures and animals.He continued with his own work too and his pottery reliefs of Biblical scenes exhibited at the Royal Academy were especially famous and were admired by John Ruskin.As a major influence in the Royal Doulton world in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, he designed and manufactured a wide range of mice figures in all sorts of scenes.His mice figures are stoneware and they were originally intended to be used as menu or flower holders.
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I write in answer to your letter concerning the boy that you are interested in I think if he has got talent for art he ought to go to an art school or copy nature wherever he sees it in outline, but I would not advise him to take to art if he can find anything better to do for it is a great struggle.......etc.PLEASE SEE SCANS.THERE IS NO ENVELOPE.QUESTIONS MOST WELCOME.Ge...orge TinworthRoyal Doultons George Tinworth was their most important designer of decorative vases, jugs and humorous figures and animals.George Tinworth (1843 – 1913), was born in Walworth in 1843 the son of a wheelwright. George was supposed to work with his father but he liked to spend his time carving bits of wood. George Tinworth’s talent as a modeller and potter were recognised by J. C. L. Sparkes, the headmaster at Lambeth School of Art, where Tinworth, having pawned his overcoat to pay for his fees, studied pottery.At the age of 21 George won a place at the Royal Academy School.After Tinworth’s father died, and he was struggling to support himself and his mother, Sparkes persuaded his friend Henry Doulton to employ Tinworth to decorate pottery.In 1866 George Tinworth went to work for Royal Doulton.He eventually became their most important designer of decorative vases, jugs and humorous figures and animals.He continued with his own work too and his pottery reliefs of Biblical scenes exhibited at the Royal Academy were especially famous and were admired by John Ruskin.As a major influence in the Royal Doulton world in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, he designed and manufactured a wide range of mice figures in all sorts of scenes.His mice figures are stoneware and they were originally intended to be used as menu or flower holders.
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