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.
Augustus Edwin John – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1898
Evelyn Cheston – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1898
William Orpen – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1899
Albert Rutherston – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1901
Elinor Proby Adams – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1906
Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1909
Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1909
Elsie McNaught – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1910
Edward Alexander Wadsworth – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1911
Thomas Saunders Nash – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1912
Dora Carrington – Figure Painting, Second Prize, 1912
Eileen Lambton – Figure Painting, Third Prize, 1912
Dora Carrington – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1913
Thomas Tennant Baxter – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1914
Thomas Tennant Baxter – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1914
Arthur Outlaw – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1914
Grace English – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1916
Neville Lewis – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1916
Helen G. Young – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1916
Enid M. Fearnside – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1917
Rita Nahabedian – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1917
Henry Charles Bevan-Petman – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1917
Alice Joyce-Smith – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1918
Dorothy Josephine Coke – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1918
L. A. (Ida) Knox – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1918
Mabel Greenberg – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1919
Ralph Nicholas Chubb – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1919
Amy Nimr – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1919
Robin Guthrie – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1920
C. E. Roberts – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1920
Rodney Joseph Burn – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1920
Daphne Pollen – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1920
Daphne Pollen – Figure Painting, Second Prize (Equal), 1920
Rodney Joseph Burn – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1921
Walter Thomas Monnington – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1921
Muriel Holinger Hope – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1921
Allan Gwynne-Jones – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1922
Theodora Meares – Figure Painting, Second Prize, 1922
Robert Boyd Morrison – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1923
John Hookham – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1923
William D. Dring – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1924
Rex Whistler – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1924
Robin Bartlett – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1925
Leila Faithfull – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1925
Jesse Dale Cast – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1925
Alice van den Bergh – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926
Francis E. Hopkinson – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926
Glynn O. Jones – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926
Kathleen Hartnell – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1926
Ena Muriel Russell Higson – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1927
Helen Lessore – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1927
Joseph H. Rogozen – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1928
Dorothy I. Reid – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1928
Bryan William Bodington – Figure Painting, First Prize,
1930
Olga Lehmann – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1931
Elizabeth Brown – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1931
Margaret A. Berry – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1932
Thelma Carstensen – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1933
Guy Anthony William Burn – Figure Painting, First Prize,
1937
Mary Kent Harrison – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1938
Nora B. Braham – Figure Painting, First Prize, 1939
William D. W. Paynter – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1940
Jean Muriel Brett – Figure Painting, Second Prize, 1943
Nancy Mellor – Figure Painting, First Prize (Equal), 1948
