page_title: John Hutchison (sculptor)
section_title: Last years
hierarchical_section_title: John Hutchison (sculptor) / Works / Last years
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaster bust of Tuke wearing contemporary dress, sculpted by John Hutchison. The sitter, Tuke, died in 1913, but the sculptor John Hutchison died in 1910, so it was sculpted before 1910.
context_page_description: John Hutchison was a Scottish sculptor based in Edinburgh. He was the son of an unnamed builder, and his artistic life began as a thirteen-year-old woodcarving apprentice. He attended art school in the evenings, then later became a student at the Trustees Academy. and attracted the patronage of its owner, Patrick Allan Fraser, who gave him commissions to fund his study in Rome. Although after Rome he continued to enjoy ancient Roman sculptural themes, he remained in Edinburgh for the rest of his life, working in wood, clay and marble, and concentrating on portraiture of Scottish people, and images of Scottish myth and history. He created the bust of Sir Walter Scott in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. He was a successful artist who received commissions from Queen Victoria.
context_section_description: In his last decade, Hutchison exhibited only until 1905, and to begin with in 1900 he only showed one work: The late Professor William Rutherford, MD, FRS, Professor of Physiology, Edinburgh University. In 1901 he showed three works from previous years: Pasquecia, Her late Majesty the Queen, and Il Condottiere, besides new works including The Good Shepherd, Rev. David Macrae, Aeneas J. G. Mackay, Esq., KC, Sheriff of Fife & Kinross and Henrietta. In 1902 he again showed Bust of lady and Study of a Roman Girl, along with the new work James Grahame, Marquis of Montrose. In 1903 he produced Thomas Aird, and A Florentine. In 1905 he showed his last exhibited work, Sir John Batty Tuke, MD, MP.
caption: John Batty Tuke (1905)
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