John Poyntz Spencer (1835–1910), 5th Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty (1892–1895) 1933
Arthur Pollen (1899–1968) and Morris Singer Art Foundry Ltd (founded 1927)
Parliamentary Art Collection
Sculptor, grandson of John Hungerford Pollen, a member of the second Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His work was first published while he was a schoolboy in Flight magazine, 1917, but colour blindness caused him to take up sculpture. After schooling at Downside Abbey Pollen studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1919–23, painting with Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer, sculpture with Havard Thomas, 1922–3, and Frank Dobson, 1923–4. In 1926 he married Daphne Baring, a fellow Slade student. In the late 1920s with her he worked in the South Kensington studio where John Singer Sargent had lately completed his ambitious public murals for Boston, in America. Pollen joined the LG in 1929, early exhibitions including the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, RA Summer Exhibition and NEAC.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
