Jessie Lipscomb
Jessie Lipscomb, married. Elborne ( born June 13, 1861 in Grantham ( Lincolnshire ); † January 12, 1952 ) was an English sculptor. She was friends with Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin spent time working with them together in a studio in Paris.
Life
Jessie Lipscomb was born in 1861 in Grantham, daughter of a colliery agent and a waitress. In 1875 the family moved to Peterborough. Jessie attended the National Art Training School in South Kensington, the institutional predecessor was founded in 1896 the Royal College of Art was. She won the 1882 Queen's Prize and the National Silver Medal in 1883.
In 1884 Jessie Lipscomb began studying in Paris at the Académie Colarossi. Her mother arranged an accommodation for a monthly food allowance of 200 francs at the friendly banker family Claudel in the Rue Notre- Dame-des -Champs 111 A few houses in the Rue Notre- Dame-des -Champs 117 had the daughter of Louis - Prosper Claudel Camille Claudel since 1882 along with two other former graduates of the Art Training School - Singer Amy and Emily Fawcett - shared a studio in which the young women by Alfred Boucher were taught. During a trip to Italy by Alfred Boucher it comes to the first meeting with Auguste Rodin, who is teaching the young women in the studio Rue Notre -Dames des Champs accepts on behalf of Boucher. A short time later from November 1885 working alongside Camille Claudel and Rodin Jessie Lipscomb in his studio in the rue de l' université 182 as Rodin 's assistant. Jessie Lipscomb will include work on the famous group of figures attributed to Rodin The Burghers of Calais.
Camille Claudel made 1885 a bust of Jessie Lipscomb, which she presented at an exhibition in Nottingham 1887. In her first major exhibition at Nottingham Castle Jessie Lipscomb 1885 showed a terra cotta bust of S. Lipscomb, a portrait study of terracotta and a terracotta bust of William Elborne.
In 1886 Jessie Lipscomb and Camille Claudel traveled together to England to visit the parents of Jessie in Peterbourough. Rodin, who worked at that time in England, both women visited in Peterbourough. Jessie Lipscomb was the best confidant of Camille Claudel. However, they also had to Auguste Rodin a close relationship, which is reflected in numerous letters, which discuss Rodin Lipscomb with the difficult relationship with Camille Claudel. In August 1886 Jessie Lipscomb visited along with Camille and Paul Claudel, the Isle of Wight. Here was a cycle of charcoal drawings by Camille Claudel. In the same year Jessie Lipscomb presented together with Camille Claudel at the 6th Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil on Water Colour and Design in Nottingham Aachitectural out together. While Camille Claudel was a portrait study in bronze, Jessie Lipscomb was a terracotta work, Day Dreams, represented.
In 1887, both women work in his own studio in various works. From Jessie some photographs of sculptures have survived. She presented again in Nottingham from this year a portrait study of terracotta by Camille Claudel, another portrait study and one of her best-known sculptures, Sans Souci.
In the late 1880s, the relationship between Claudel and Rodin increasingly problematic and tense. Jessie Lipscomb now came to the role of mediator between the two artists. Despite the discord of Rodin and Claudel and also a heated argument late in 1887 between her and Camille Claudel they remained on friendly terms with both. Rodin visited her in later years when he was in England. Jessie Lipscomb was one of the few friends that Camille Claudel also visited when it was spent because of paranoid delusions in a psychiatric hospital in 1913, where she spent the last 30 years of her life. Proven visited Jessie Lipscomb, married Elborne Camille Claudel in Montdevergues (Vaucluse ) in 1924 and again in March 1929. Occasion of this latest encounter some photographs were of William Elborne made that made Jessie Paul Claudel come with a request to take a closer to Camille Claudel worry about.
Family
On December 26, 1887, she married the pharmacist and chemist William Elborne.
William Elborne taught at the medical faculty of the University of London and studied even in Cambridge, and settled as an analyst in the near Peterborough. The marriage produced four children. One of their sons, Sydney Elborne Lipscomb (1890 - 1986) was a prominent lawyer, justice of the peace and winner of the Order of the British Empire.
With the marriage of William Elborne she ended her artistic career. Occasionally made Jessie Lipscomb Elborne to some private terracotta portraits of her family. She died at the age of 90 years on 12 January 1952.
Works
Works by Jessie Lipscomb are known only from the years 1885 to 1887 when she worked with Camille Claudel in Paris. The Lipscomb attributed works include among others
Exhibitions
Reception
- Camille Claudel - a film by Bruno Nuytten, 1988, StudioCanal Images
- Camille Claudel - in tot he fire