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Annual Mithras Lecture
John Lockwood Kipling
‘The William Morris of India’
A lecture to be given by Julius Bryant
of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 – 6pm for 6.30pm
at The Dutch Church,
Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA
JULIUS BRYANT is Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria and
Albert Museum. He was previously Chief Curator and Director
of Museums and Collections at English Heritage (1990–2005).
Among major exhibitions he has co-curated are James ‘Athenian’
Stuart, 1713-1788, The Rediscovery of Antiquity: V&A and Bard
Graduate Center, NY, 2007; Art and Design for All: V&A (Bonn
and Budapest, 2011) and William Kent: Designing Georgian
Britain (BGC and V&A, 2013).
His publications include Kenwood: Paintings in the Iveagh
Bequest (Yale, 2005), Art and Design for All: The Victoria and
Albert Museum (V&A, 2011) and Alec Cobbe: Designs for Historic
Interiors (V&A, 2014).
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911)
As a man of letters, artist and teacher, Kipling was also a heritage activist in the 19th century
struggle between art and industry. Friend of Rossetti and Swinburne, brother-in-law of
Edward Burne-Jones and Edward Poynter, he belonged at the heart of England’s Arts and
Crafts movement, and worked to secure recognition for the craft skills of India.
At the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum) from 1860 to
1864, he made terracotta decoration for the new buildings. Between 1865 and 1875 he taught
at the J.J. School of Art in Mumbai. After a century of British influence and imports to South
Asia, craft traditions had suffered, but Kipling encouraged his students to explore their own
heritage and local skills. In 1875 he was appointed Principal of the new Mayo School of Art
(today Pakistan’s National College of Art) and curator of its museum in Lahore, known locally
as the Ajaib-Gher or ‘Wonder House’. Kipling is lovingly described as the ‘Keeper of Images’
there by his son Rudyard in the novel Kim (1904).
He could be summed up as the William Morris of India.
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