First Prize at the Slade

The University College London and the Slade School of Fine Art are linked and in the UCL art archives are many painting from the Slade’s past. Many are nudes and it turns out, they are the winners of the Slade School of Art prize for Figure Painting. I have not included all the paintings – some are un-named and un-dated but must fit in the missing spaces. I have put them in order of date and many of the names listed are surprisingly famous.

Frederick Brown was appointed as Slade Professor in 1892 and introduced new prizes for the 1893-4 session. The prizes for life painting and drawing, anatomical drawing and new figure composition. The prizes were abandoned in 1965 and in 1966 students could choose what they presented. I don’t know what the prizes were for Figure Drawing but I do know Stanley Spencer won the Slade Summer Composition Prize in 1912 and it was £25, today with inflation that is £2,800. 

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 Augustus Edwin John – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1898

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 Evelyn Cheston – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1898

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 William Orpen – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1899

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 Albert Rutherston – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1901

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 Elinor Proby Adams – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1906

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 Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1909

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 Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1909

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 Elsie McNaught – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1910

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 Edward Alexander Wadsworth – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1911

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 Thomas Saunders Nash – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1912

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 Dora Carrington – Figure Painting, Second Prize, 1912

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 Eileen Lambton – Figure Painting, Third Prize, 1912

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 Dora Carrington – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1913

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 Thomas Tennant Baxter – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1914

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 Thomas Tennant Baxter – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1914

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 Arthur Outlaw – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1914

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 Grace English – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1916

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 Neville Lewis – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1916

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 Helen G. Young – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1916

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 Enid M. Fearnside – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1917

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 Rita Nahabedian – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1917

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 Henry Charles Bevan-Petman – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1917

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 Alice Joyce-Smith – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1918

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 Dorothy Josephine Coke – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1918

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 L. A. (Ida) Knox – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1918

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 Mabel Greenberg – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1919

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 Ralph Nicholas Chubb – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1919

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 Amy Nimr – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1919

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 Robin Guthrie – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1920

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 C. E. Roberts – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1920

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 Rodney Joseph Burn – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1920

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 Daphne Pollen – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1920

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 Daphne Pollen – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1920

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 Rodney Joseph Burn – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1921

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 Walter Thomas Monnington – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1921

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 Muriel Holinger Hope – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1921

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 Allan Gwynne-Jones – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1922

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 Theodora Meares – Figure Painting, Second Prize, 1922

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 Robert Boyd Morrison – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1923

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 John Hookham – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1923

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 William D. Dring – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1924

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 Rex Whistler – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1924

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 Robin Bartlett – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1925

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 Leila Faithfull – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1925

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 Jesse Dale Cast – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1925

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 Alice van den Bergh – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926

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 Francis E. Hopkinson – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926

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Glynn O. Jones – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926

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 Kathleen Hartnell – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926

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 Ena Muriel Russell Higson – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1927

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 Helen Lessore – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1927

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 Joseph H. Rogozen – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1928

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 Dorothy I. Reid – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1928

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 Bryan William Bodington – Figure Painting, First Prize,
1930

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 Olga Lehmann – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1931

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 Elizabeth Brown – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1931

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 Margaret A. Berry – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1932

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 Thelma Carstensen – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1933

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 Guy Anthony William Burn – Figure Painting, First Prize,
1937

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 Mary Kent Harrison – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1938 

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 Nora B. Braham – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1939

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 William D. W. Paynter – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1940

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 Jean Muriel Brett – Figure Painting, Second Prize, 1943

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 Nancy Mellor – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1948