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Theresa Thornycroft (1853 – July 1947) was an English sculptor and painter. Biography. Born Theresa Georgina Thornycroft, she was a member of the inventive and artistic branch of the Thornycroft family.
- 1853
- Alfred Ezra Sassoon
- English
- 3, including Siegfried Sassoon
Artworks by Theresa Thornycroft. The Parable of the Great Supper Theresa Thornycroft (1853–1947) Museum of Croydon.
Posted on 10 December 2013 by Dr Emma Saunders. Poet and author Siegfried Sassoon was a prolific letter writer and throughout his life maintained a close friendship and correspondence with his mother Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, known affectionately as ‘Ash’.
- He Is Very Poor
- At The Royal Academy
- Emily Howard
- The Business of Modelling
- Libel by Postcard
- The Case Must Continue!
- A Photographer of Sorts
- Kennedy …
- … and Wheen
- Nefarious Designs
The Thornycrofts were a well-known and well-connected family of artists. Sixty-year-old Thomas, the respectable paterfamilias, was a sculptor who had produced works for the House of Lords, the Great Exhibition and part of the Albert Memorial. His wife, Mary Thornycroft née Francis, was also a sculptor and the main bread winner in the family. She wa...
In 1863, with her application endorsed by the Irish sculptor John Foley, who was responsible for the brooding figure of Prince Albert on the Albert Memorial, Alyce gained admittance to the Royal Academy Schools. She was one of only a handful of women who attended under the watchful eye of a housekeeper-chaperone. They followed a more limited curric...
At home Alyce and her sisters used their mother’s studio for painting and sculpting and had access not only to lay figures — jointed doll-like models — but also to human models. In September 1874 Alyce hired a young woman by the name of Emily Howard to model for herself and her sisters. Emily was about twenty-eight years old. She was five feet thre...
As educated middle-class women, paying for her services, the Thornycrofts were unlikely to have shown more interest in Emily than as a useful prop for their art. Familiarity would not have been encouraged, and Frances Borzello points out in The Artist’s Modelthat the fact that until (the twentieth) century the women who earned their living from mod...
Beginning in June 1875 Alyce began to receive some disturbing and anonymous poison pen postcards. Initially the messages were unpleasant and accusatory. Later they were crude and alarming. Once alerted, Alyce’s father had taken it upon himself to intercept the post. He destroyed some of the more extreme communications. There was something in the le...
Thomas Thornycroft decided to keep the newly arrived postcards as evidence. The nuisance could not go unpunished, as in casting these aspersions Emily Howard was threatening Alyce’s reputation as well as that of her family. He consulted a solicitor, the clever and effective George Lewis. On 27 December 1875 Emily Howard, who was described as a scul...
So who was Emily Howard? She was actually Emily Puddick, and, as it appears that she never married, we must assume that she adopted the ‘Howard’ as more befitting an artist’s model. She was the daughter of Charles and Rebecca Puddick and had been born in late 1844 in Nutbourne, a small hamlet near Chichester in West Sussex. When her mother died, he...
The court case has given us the names of two of Emily’s clients, although we have to assume that there were others who did not make themselves known. One was Edward Sherard Kennedy — the E. S. Kennedy of her letters — for whom she modelled in about 1869 when she was in her early twenties. Kennedy was the illegitimate son of the actress and singer E...
The other client was an amateur artist who lived at 104 Lancaster Gate in Bayswater, the daughter of a wealthy soap manufacturer by the name of Richard Wheen. Even after her employment with this Miss Wheen ended, Emily continued to bother the family by sending letters and continually calling at the house. When on Wednesday 3 June 1874 the footman o...
This brings us to the Old Bailey on a cold January day in 1876, when details of Emily’s letter-writing campaigns were revealed. Some of the postcards sent to Miss Thornycroft were considered so shocking that they could not be read in court: they were only shown to the judge. Not much content was reported in the newspapers. The letters were written ...
individual; sculptor/medallist; British; Female. Life dates. 1809-1895. Biography. Sculptor, the daughter of the sculptor John Francis (1780-1861), in 1840 she married Thomas Thornycroft (q.v.) a pupil of her father. She worked extensively for the royal family, perhaps best known are her busts of Queen Victoria and Albert's children, and she ...
Theresa Thornycroft (1853–1947) Letter to ‘Dear Gull’ London, 4 September 1870. Sassoon’s mother studied painting in classes given in his studio by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown, and, like her brother Hamo and sisters Alyce and Helen, attended the Royal Academy Schools.
The Parable of the Great Supper Museum of Croydon. The Parable of the Great Supper by Theresa Thornycroft (1853–1947), from Croydon Art Collection.
