15929993440001312637261000Standard Recordobject-12342170206232862816681841310001702062267226fitz-onlineadlib-object-12342https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12342fc77c4f4-d7e6-3eda-a0ba-d4b339d27a4914personreferenceagent-125314adlib-agent-125314c27a15ba-35cf-3c55-9176-aa32086d25b3Shannon, Charles Haslewoodreferenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculpturereferenceterm-107710adlib-term-107710d271a129-4768-353a-b24c-ae6adaf593b3Ricketts and Shannon Collectionreferenceterm-98112adlib-term-9811232d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139portraitApplied ArtsBronze, cast. The sitter is shown front view, full face.263referenceexhibition-3325adlib-exhibition-3325d03a23d2-8660-3ce4-a009-a301269a2257Seventh Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and GraversM.68-19371accession numberM.68-193712342priref12342external IDCAM_CCF_M_68_1937urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12342https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12342referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumThe Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937referenceagent-125314adlib-agent-125314c27a15ba-35cf-3c55-9176-aa32086d25b3Shannon, Charles Haslewood193719371937bequeathedEntry date: 1937-10-2619061906CE19061906190711907CE19071907sculptorreferenceagent-152989adlib-agent-1529897f27c4b6-0b4f-3867-afaf-110670e4969dWells, Reginald FairfaxReginald Fairfax Wells (1877-1951) was a sculptor, studio potter, aircraft manufacturer and architect. During the 1890s, Wells studied sculpture at the South Kensington School of Art. After a brief spell designing aircraft, he then studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art under potters W. B. Dalton and Richard Lunn. Around 1900, he moved to Wrotham in Kent, where there had been potteries since the seventeenth century, and set up his own art pottery at nearby Coldrum. Around 1909 he moved Coldrum Pottery to Keppel Street, Chelsea, and continued there until the outbreak of the First World War, when he established the Wells Aviation Company on the same site. He designed and built the Wells Reo, a single-seat biplane. However, the aviation company went bankrupt in 1917 and in 1919, Wells resumed pottery in Chelsea but under the new name of ‘SOON’ ware, working with new clays and glazes, creating pots in the style of Chinese Song dynasty wares. In 1925, Wells moved to Storrington, Sussex, where he continued to make ‘SOON’ ware. He also turned his hand to architecture, designing and building around 200 ‘Wells cottages’ in Kent and Sussex, in imitation of local seventeenth-century thatched cottages.
Wells is best-known for his ceramics and lays claim to be the first ‘studio potter’ – there are over 30 pots by him the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. However, in the first decade of the twentieth century, Wells was well-known for his small-scale bronzes. He cast his own bronzes, using the lost-wax casting method. He showed sculpture annually at the exhibitions of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, as well as eight times (between 1899 and 1933) at the annual Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. In the 1911 census his occupation is given as, ‘Sculptor, Bronze Founder, Art Pottery Manufacturer’ as well as a ‘Teacher of Bronze Foundry’.
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imagereferenceterm-107683adlib-term-1076839cdf19fa-4af7-3ca3-b180-580dfffebdc0headhistory noteRicketts and Shannon Collection - Charles de Sousy Ricketts (1866-1931) and Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863-1937)referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameSculpture UKSculpture UKsubjectreferenceterm-1609adlib-term-160984f2e5e2-0de4-3096-98b9-7bb4c12aaffdmaleliteralmalemalereferenceterm-107683adlib-term-1076839cdf19fa-4af7-3ca3-b180-580dfffebdc0headheadbronze, castreferenceterm-26699adlib-term-26699a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8casting (process)Head of Charles H. Shannon (1863-1937)object
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