Frances Isobel Swan
Frances Isobel Swan | |
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_with_Reginald_Keble_Swan_(left)_and_Frances_Isobel_Swan_(center)%252C_circa_1927.jpg) Swan (center) with Reginald Keble (left) and her son Christopher Morcom (right), circa 1927 | |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
| Years active | 1895—1903 |
Frances Isobel Swan Morcom^ (1875–1941) was an English artist and sculptor.
She is notable for raising student athlete and astronomer Christopher Morcom, a childhood friend of English computer scientist Alan Turing. She also created a statue of her late father, Sir Joseph Swan, an inventor of the incandescent light bulb.
Biography
In 1875, Swan was born[1][2] in Low Fell, Gateshead, Durham.[2]
Between 1895 and 1903, she lived in 58 Holland Park, London,[3] which was also her period of prominent exhibition.[4]
Her statuette Marbles was exhibited in 1899 at the Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition.[5]
In 1903, she created the bronze sculpture Adeline which was exhibited at that year's Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition.[6]
The following year, she married Reginald Keble Swan (1877–1961).[3][7]
On September 19, 1906, she gave birth to her first son, Alfred Rupert Morcom. He would become a research director and chemist for Bellis & Morcom Ltd.[3]
On the 13 June 1911, she gave birth to Christopher Collan Morcom. A noted prankster, astronomer, and student athlete, he would become a noteworthy friend of Alan Turing before his premature death in 1930.[3]
In 1924, she gifted a bronze statue of her late father Joseph Swan to The Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle in Newcastle upon Tyne.[8]
She died on February 26, 1941, in Bromsgrove at the age of 63.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ "Art UK: Frances Isobel Swan". Retrieved 28 August 2026.
- 1 2 "Frances Isobel Swan - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "MORCOM/BE ONE NAME STUDY Person Page 395". www.morcoms.co.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
- ↑ "The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768- - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
- ↑ "Marbles by Frances Isobel Swan - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
- ↑ "Adeline by Frances Isobel Swan - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
- ↑ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
- ↑ "Sculpture of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828–1914)". ArtUK.