Artists’ Papers Register
A location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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Artists’ Papers RegisterA location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland |
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| GB/NNAF/P33353 Blow, Detmar Jellings (1867-1939) Gender: Male Functions, occupations and activities English architect; born (24 November 1867); in 1888 while in France, he met John Ruskin and they toured Italy together; Ruskin persuaded him to give up his architectural training to learn about building, and in 1891 he was apprenticed to a working mason in Newcastle upon Tyne; in 1892 he won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Pugin Scholarship; the same year he was elected to the Art Workers' Guild; in 1900-10 he had a practice designing country houses and was also involved in the repair of churches for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; in 1905 he went into partnership with the French architect Fernard Billerey (1878-1951); in 1916 he became a full-time agent to Richard Grosvenor, the 2nd Duke of Westminster, and largely gave up his architectural practice; however, in 1933 the Duke made serious, and largely unfounded, financial accusations against Blow, who retired to his country house Hilles, near Painswick, Glos, an Arts and Crafts house that he had built between 1914 and 1917; died there (7 February 1939). Thesaurus ARCHITECTS Archival Resources Number noted: 4 Drawings Held at: Royal Institute of British Architects Library Other information: National Heritage Memorial Fund annual report 1987-88 Papers relating to involvement with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Held at: Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Correspondence with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1904-1919 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design Document reference: MA/1/B1716 Comments: Access by appointment only Letter from, to Sydney Cockerell, 1892 Held at: Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library Document reference: MSL/1957/696/227 Comments: Access by appointment Date of creation: 07 November 2002
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