Dorothy Doughty
{{Short description|British sculptor and potter}}
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Dorothy Susan Doughty (Sanremo 1892 – 6 October 1962) was a British sculptor and potter, much of whose best work was produced for Royal Worcester, specialising in representations of birds.
Early life and education
She was the elder daughter of poet, writer, and traveller Charles Montagu Doughty and Caroline Amelia, daughter of General Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo.Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 21, ed. Patrick H. Armstrong, Geoffrey Martin, Bloomsbury, 2001, p. 12The Life of C. M. Doughty, David George Hogarth, Doubleday, Doran, Inc., 1929, p. 125The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, The Mortimer-Percy Volume, Melville Henry Massue, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994 (reprint), pp. 523 Her father was great-grandson of the politician and judge Beaumont Hotham, 2nd Baron Hotham.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, p. 1975
Doughty was educated at Eastbourne School of Art, where she became a keen naturalist and ornithologist. Her sister, Frederica Gertrude ("Freda"; 1895-1972) was also a sculptor and potter, including working with her sister for Royal Worcester.God's Fugitive: The Life of Charles Montagu Doughty, Andrew Taylor, Harper Collins, 1999, p. 335{{Cite web|url=https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/100/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/206575|title=Ashmolean}}
Career
Doughty is mostly known for her collection of porcelain American birds. She modeled a series of thirty-six pairs and three individual models of American birds, which were designed between 1933 and 1960. They were produced by Royal Worcester, a British porcelain firm. An entire series of her porcelain birds are exhibited at the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas and The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale in Riverdale, New York, and at Audubon House of Pelican Island Audubon Society in Vero Beach, Florida. Towards the end of her life, she also designed British birds, which were put into production after her death.
She and her sister Freda lived together in Kent, later moving to a cliff-top house with a shared garden studio at Falmouth, Cornwall. Where Dorothy specialized in birds, Freda's artistic focus was on depictions of children; so popular were two of her designs that they were credited with having "single-handedly kept the factory open" during a sales lull in the 1950s.God's Fugitive: The Life of Charles Montagu Doughty, Andrew Taylor, Harper Collins, 1999, p. 335{{cite web |url=http://www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk/uploaded/documents/19DorothyDoughty.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928012056/http://www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk/uploaded/documents/19DorothyDoughty.pdf |archive-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.museumofroyalworcester.org/learning/research/workers-and-factory-owners/freda-doughty/|title = Freda Doughty | Museum of Royal Worcester}}
Later life and death
References
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Bibliography
- Savage, George. The American Birds of Dorothy Doughty. Worcester: Worcester Royal Porcelain Co, 1962. {{oclc|192167614}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928012056/http://www.worcesterporcelainmuseum.org.uk/uploaded/documents/19DorothyDoughty.pdf Biography], Worcester Porcelain Museum
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