Ernest Procter (22 March 1885–21 October 1935) was an English designer, illustrator and painter, and husband of artist Dod Procter. He was actively involved with the Newlyn School, partner of the Harvey-Procter School and an instructor at the
Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and ...
.''Ernest Procter.'' Cornwall Artists. Retrieved 2 October 2012.''Ernest Procter''. Brown University, The Modernists Journal Project. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
Personal life and education
Ernest Procter was born into a
Quaker
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family in
Tynemouth
Tynemouth () is a coastal town in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside, North East England. It is located on the north side of the mouth of the River Tyne, hence its name. It is 8 mi (13 km) east-northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne ...
,
Northumberland
Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey.
It is bordered by land o ...
Leeds University
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, t ...
professor who specialised in leather chemistry. He was also a
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemati ...
.''Ernest Procter'' Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012. Edward painted his father's portrai
Procter, like his father, attended school first in
York
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at the Quaker
Bootham School
Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.
The school ...
. From 1907 to 1910 he was a student of
Stanhope Forbes
Stanhope Alexander Forbes (18 November 1857 – 2 March 1947) was a British artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. He was often called 'the father of the Newlyn School'.Newlyn, Cornwall
Newlyn ( kw, Lulyn: Lu 'fleet', Lynn/Lydn 'pool') is a seaside town and fishing port (the largest fishing port in England) in south-west Cornwall, UK.Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End''
Newlyn lies on the shore of Mount ...
. He contributed to the school's publication, ''The Paper Chase'' in 1908 and 1909, was an assistant to Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, and was a successful, well-respected student. At Forbes' Procter met his future wife Doris "Dod" Shaw; They were "amongst the Forbes' star pupils."
In 1910 and 1911 Procter studied in Paris at Atelier Colarossi. Dod Shaw was also a student at Atelier Colarossi. Ernest and Dod were both influenced by
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passag ...
and
Post-impressionism
Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction ag ...
and the artists that they met in France, such as
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Re ...
and
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically di ...
. In 1912 Procter married Dod at the church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris.''Dod Procter'' Cornwall Artists. 3 October 2012. They had a son together named Bill and stayed in Paris until 1918.
;Influential artists' works
File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party - Google Art Project.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''
Luncheon of the Boating Party
''Luncheon of the Boating Party'' french: Le Déjeuner des canotiers is an 1881 painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Included in the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882, it was identified as the best painting in the s ...
'', 1880–1881, The
Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin ...
, Washington, D.C.
File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Artist's Family (La Famille de l'artiste) - BF819 - Barnes Foundation.jpg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ''The Artist's Family'', 1896, The
Barnes Foundation
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, Merion,
Pennsylvania
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File:Baie de Marseille, vue de l'Estaque, par Paul Cézanne.jpg, Paul Cézanne, ''The Bay of Marseilles, view from L'Estaque'', 1885
File:Paul Cézanne 014.jpg, Paul Cézanne, ''Bather'', 1885–1887,
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of th ...
In 1918 Procter and his wife returned to Newlyn, where they primarily lived from that point onward. On 21 October 1935, after years of high blood pressure, Procter died of a
cerebral haemorrhage
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain, into its ventricles, or into both. It is one kind of bleed ...
in
North Shields
North Shields () is a town in the Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England. It is north-east of Newcastle upon Tyne and borders nearby Wallsend and Tynemouth.
Since 1974, it has been in the North Tyneside borough of Tyne and W ...
conscientious objector
A conscientious objector (often shortened to conchie) is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. The term has also been extended to object ...
, serving with the
Friends' Ambulance Unit
The Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was a volunteer ambulance service, founded by individual members of the British Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), in line with their Peace Testimony. The FAU operated from 1914–1919, 1939–1946 and 19 ...
Étaples
Étaples or Étaples-sur-Mer (; vls, Stapel, lang; pcd, Étape) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is a fishing and leisure port on the Canche river.
History
Étaples takes its name from having been a medieval ...
, The Convoy Yard'', Imperial War Museum
File:Ernest Procter - Nissen Huts, St Omer - Imperial War Museum.jpg, ''
Nissen hut
A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure for military use, especially as barracks, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated iron. Designed during the First World War by the American-born, Canadian-British engineer and inventor Major ...
s, St Omer'', Imperial War Museum
File:Ernest Procter - The Interior of a Garage, Boulogne - Imperial War Museum.jpg, ''The Interior of a Garage,
Boulogne
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...
'', Imperial War Museum
File:Ernest Procter - The Interior of the BRCS and Order of St John Garage, Boulogne - Imperial War Museum.jpg, ''The Interior of the BRCS and Order of St John Garage, Boulogne'', Imperial War Museum
Career
After the war Dod and Ernest Procter returned to Newlyn, where Ernest was a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. In 1920 Ernest and Harold Harvey established the Harvey-Procter School. They taught painting of still life, figures and landscapes in watercolour and oil. He and his wife, accepted a commission to decorate the Kokine Palace, Rangoon, in 1919 and 1920.
Procter created in 1931 what he called Diaphenicons, which were "painted and glazed decorations that provided their own light source."
Leicester Galleries
Leicester Galleries was an art gallery located in London from 1902 to 1977 that held exhibitions of modern British, French and international artists' works. Its name was acquired in 1984 by Peter Nahum, who operates "Peter Nahum at the Leiceste ...
exhibited these works.
The
Glasgow School of Art
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and ...
appointed him Director of Studies in Design and Craft in 1934.
Works
Procter's works included portraits and landscapes.
Paintings
* ''All the Fun of the Fair''Ernest Procter Art Magick. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
* ''Aphrodite''
* ''Delphiniums'', 1907** ''Earth, Water, Fire, Air'', 1928
* ''Feather leaves'', 1934, a painted ceramic plate, Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
* ''Helston Flora Dance'', 1926
* ''Mother & Child'', 1924
* ''Malo Gate, Dunkirk'', 1924
* ''Night and Evening''
* ''Porthgwarra'', oil on canvas, Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
* ''Rising Tide'', 1936, Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
* ''Spring Hawthorn''
* ''The Edge of the Shadow'', 1921, for a Royal Academy Exhibition
* ''The Four Elements''
* ''The Mischievous Boy''
* ''The Road to Sancreed''
* ''The Terrace'', 1921
* ''The Zodiac'', 1925, oil on canvas, Tate''The Zodiac.'' Tate. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
* ''Those Who Dare''
* ''Versailles'', 1921
Portraits
* Sir
Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic and the Roya ...
, 2nd Bt''Ernest Procter.'' National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
* Sir Thomas Beecham Conducting '' A Mass of Life'' at the
Queen's Hall
The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, Langham Place, London, opened in 1893. Designed by the architect Thomas Knightley, it had room for an audience of about 2,500 people. It became London's principal concert venue. Fro ...
, 1929
*
Frederick Delius
Delius, photographed in 1907
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted atte ...
Landon Ronald
Sir Landon Ronald (born Landon Ronald Russell) (7 June 1873 – 14 August 1938) was an English conductor, composer, pianist, teacher and administrator.
In his early career he gained work as an accompanist and ''répétiteur'', but struggled ...
Church or other commissions
* St Mary's Church altar screen, Chapel Street, Penzance – which in 1985 was destroyed during a fire
* Kokine Palace decorations, Rangoon, 1920 with his wife Dod.
* St Hilary Church, Cornwall:
** Depicted
St Mawes
St Mawes ( kw, Lannvowsedh) is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of t ...
pulpit
A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin ''pulpitum'' (platform or staging). The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, access ...
Melissa Hardie. 100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery '. Hypatia Publications; 1 June 1995. . p. 1915. Note: previous page to where this link lands, ironically not a page 1914.
**
Reredos
A reredos ( , , ) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a church. It often includes religious images.
The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular architecture, for e ...
of the
Altar
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of the Dead for the St Hilary Church
** ''Visitation'', 1933, St Hilary Church
** ''Deposition'', 1935, St Hilary Church
** Dod also made works for the St Hilary Church. Ernest and Dod's works are still on view at the church.
World War I
* ''Étaples, The Convoy Yard'', 1918, pencil and watercolour, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920
* ''Nissen Huts, St Omer'', chalk and gouache, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920
* ''The Interior of a Garage, Boulogne'', pastel drawing, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920
* ''The Interior of the BRCS and Order of St John Garage, Boulogne'', pastel drawing, Imperial War Museum, Gift of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1920
Book illustrations and other works
* ''Crowns Mine, Botallack'', pencil drawing. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
* ''In Newlyn (untitled)''. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
* ''No Breakfast for Growler'', 1901, book illustrations. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.
* ''Young Witches at Play in the Night Sky'', pastel drawing. Penlee House Gallery and Museum.''Young Witches at Play in the Night Sky''. Penlee House Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
Museums and galleries
His works are part of collections at the
Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...
,
Tate
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...
,
Leeds
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He was a member or affiliated to the following organisations:
*
Associate of the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...
(ARA), from 1932
* International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers (IS), from 1925
*
New English Art Club
The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1885 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. It continues to hold an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and ...
(NEAC), from 1929
* Newlyn Art Gallery (NAG), also called the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
* Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA), Newlyn, Cornwall – member from 1924 to 34, trustee 1928 to 34
Exhibitions
Procter's work was exhibited:
* 1904 +: Newlyn Art Gallery (NAG) – starting 1904, first sale 1909
* 1913: Fine Art Gallery
* 1916 +: International Society
* Leicester Galleries
*
Royal Academy
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(49)
* Leicester Galleries (99)
Memorial exhibitions in 1936:
* Leicester Galleries
* Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Posthumous:
* 1985: Painting in Newlyn 1900-1930, Newlyn Art Gallery (NAG) & Barbican Art Gallery
* 1987: Looking West, Paintings inspired by Cornwall
* 1989: A Century of Art in Cornwall, CCC centenary, Truro
* 1990: Dod Procter RA and Ernest Procter ARA, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
* 1992: Royal West of England Academy, Bristol: Artists from Cornwall
Gallery
File:Ernest Procter - The Zodiac - Tate.jpg, Ernest Procter, ''The Zodiac'', 1925, oil paint on canvas, Tate Museum
File:Ernest Procter - Porthgwarra - Penlee Museum.jpg, Ernest Procter, ''Porthgwarra'', oil on canvas, Penlee House