Trafalgar Studios, Chelsea
{{Short description|Artists' studios in Chelsea, London}}
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Trafalgar Studios were a set of purpose-built artists' studios on Manresa Road in the Chelsea area of London, England, just off the King's Road.{{cite book|title=Settlement and building: Artists and Chelsea|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=28699|accessdate=23 January 2014|series=A History of the County of Middlesex|volume=12|year=2004|pages=102–106}} A number or notable artists worked there.
The three-story, 15-unit block was built in 1878 by John Brass.{{cite web|url=http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/195424/edward-lingwood-278-kings-road-chelsea-manresa-road-1882|title=278 Kings Road Chelsea, Manresa Road: 1882 by Edward Lingwood|publisher=Museum of London|accessdate=23 January 2014}}
They were the first such studios in London, but further blocks were built nearby, attempting to emulate their success.
Studios
Among the artists to work at the numbered studios were:
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- James Havard Thomas{{cite web |url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/place.php?id=msib5_1219923046 |title=2 Trafalgar Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea F.C., London SW3, England , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 |work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 |publisher=University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|accessdate=23 January 2014}}
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- c. 1933 – 1937 Clifford Hall
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- Edward Onslow Ford{{cite web |url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/place.php?id=msib5_1207823192 |title=11 Trafalgar Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea F.C., London SW3, England , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 |work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 |publisher=University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|accessdate=23 January 2014}}
- c. 1888 – 1892 John Wilson
- c. 1891 – 1892 George William Iliffe Wilson
- c. 1885 – 1901 Albert Arthur Toft (occupied studios with his brother Alfonso; also 12){{cite web |url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/place.php?id=msib5_1208345356 |title=11–12 Trafalgar Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea F.C., London SW3, England , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 |work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 |publisher=University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|accessdate=23 January 2014}}
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- 1900 – Albert Toft (see above)
- Circa 1927 – Arnrid Banniza Johnston{{cite web |url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/place.php?id=msib5_1213206806 |title=12 Trafalgar Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea F.C., London SW3, England , University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 |work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 |publisher=University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|accessdate=23 January 2014}}
- 1944 – Harry Thomas
- c. 1950 – 1951 Richard Alfred Thomas
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- Herbert Granville Fell (also no 14)Address given on 15 May 1902 at marriage to Mary Linton{{cite web | title = London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1931 | website = Ancestry | publisher = Ancestry Information Operations Unlimited Company | date = | url = https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1623/31280_197672-00342/3192603?backurl=https%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgst%3d-6&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults | access-date = 4 December 2017}}
- Edward Gordon Craig (also no 14){{cite book|title=The Correspondence of Edward Gordon Craig and Count Harry Kessler, 1903–1937|author1=Craig, E.G.|author2=Kessler, H.|author3=Newman, L.M.|author4=Modern Humanities Research Association|date=1995|publisher=W.S. Maney for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London|isbn=9780901286598|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGOi6jHtuB4C&pg=PA24|page=24|accessdate=13 August 2015}}
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- 1881–1898 – Rudolph Onslow Ford{{cite web |url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/place.php?id=msib6_1206028289 |title=14 Trafalgar Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea F.C., London SW3, England, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 |work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 |publisher=University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|accessdate=23 January 2014}}
- 1911 – Aroldo du-Chêne de Vére
- Circa 1939 Frank Owen Dobson
- Frank Brangwyn{{cite book|title=Frank Brangwyn 1867–1956|author1=Horner, L.|author2=Naylor, G.|date=2007|publisher=Leeds Museums and Galleries|isbn=9780901981738|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-vn5iBIe3QC&pg=PA34|page=34|accessdate=13 August 2015}}
- Edward Gordon Craig (also no 13)
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- 1881 – James Havard Thomas{{cite web |url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/place.php?id=msib2_1217000006 |title=15 Trafalgar Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea F.C., London SW3, England, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 |work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951 |publisher=University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|accessdate=23 January 2014}}
- 1927 Alfred Priest
- c. 1933 – 1936 – Frank Owen Dobson
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- Mervyn Peake{{cite book|title=Under a Canvas Sky: Living Outside Gormenghast|author=Peake, C.|date=2011|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9781849017473|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HLrjjb7sTLcC&pg=PT24|accessdate=13 August 2015}}
- Evelyn De Morgan, 1880s {{Cite book|last=De Morgan|first=Evelyn|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36021039|title=Evelyn de Morgan : oil paintings|date=1996|publisher=De Morgan Foundation|others=Catherine Gordon, Andrew Michael, Judy Oberhausen, Patricia Yates, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum|isbn=0-9528141-0-2|location=London|pages=11|oclc=36021039}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/195424/edward-lingwood-278-kings-road-chelsea-manresa-road-1882 "278 Kings Road Chelsea, Manresa Road] (painting, 1882) by Edward Lingwood, showing the building in the distance
- [http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app;jsessionid=330B62F4DBA5CE8A7579314916E55083?service=external/Item&sp=I%3AKensington+and+Chelsea%2C+London+Borough+of+++++++++++++++++++++++%3A%3A&sp=172178&sp=X Photograph of a studio interior]
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Category:Buildings and structures in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Category:Artists' studios in London
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1878
Category:19th-century architecture in the United Kingdom
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