T. E. Collcutt (1840–1924) c.1902 (?)
Frank Lynn Jenkins (1870–1927)
The Royal Institute of British Architects
Frank Lynn Jenkins [also known as F. Lynn Jenkins and Frank Lynn-Jenkins] was born in Torquay, Devon, England, on 14 April 1870 and was the son of Henry Tozer Jenkins, a stonemason and quarry merchant. He trained as a carver in his father's workshops and studied art at the Western College in Weston-super-Mare; the South London Technical School of Art; and, from 1893, at the Royal Academy Schools in London where he was taught by Alfred Gilbert and George Frampton. He also became friends with fellow student Gerald Moira (1867–1959), with whom he later collaborated on several decorative schemes in coloured plaster bas-reliefs, notably the interiors of the Trocadero Restaurant on Shaftsbury Avenue in London; the cupola above the stage at Salle Bechstein [later Wigmore Hall)] on Wigmore Street, London; Throgmorton Restaurant in London; Hotel Metropole in Folkestone, Kent; and Passmore Edwards Library, Shoreditch, Middlesex [now London].
Jenkins exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London from 1896 to 1915. He also exhibited at the London Salon, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and International Society in London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at the Paris Salon. He participated in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St Louis in 1904; International Exhibition in Dublin in 1907; and Franco-British Exhibition in London in 1908.
Jenkins was elected a member of the Art Workers Guild in 1900; a member the Royal Society of British Sculptors (RBS) in 1904; a member of the Architectural League of New York in 1920; an Associate of the National Sculpture Society in 1921; and a full member of the National Sculpture Society in 1923.
Jenkins' address is given as 12 Bedford Gardens, London in 1896 and 1904; 181A King's Road, London in 1905 and 1907; 23 Pembroke Road, London in 1907; and at 1 Logan Studios, Logan Place, Kensington, London in 1908 and 1916. In 1916 he moved to New York City where he remained for the rest of his life. Following his move to America he continued to work and exhibit. He died in New York City on 1 September 1927. Jenkins' younger brother, Gilbert Henry Jenkins (1875-1957, was an architect and landscape designer
His work is included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/
