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Édouard Lantéri
Édouard Lantéri (31 October 1848 – 22 December 1917) was a French-born British sculptor and medallist whose romantic French style of sculpting was seen as influential among exponents of New Sculpture. His name is also frequently spelled without accents as Edouard Lanteri and his first name sometimes given in its English form as Edward. Biography Lantéri was born in Auxerre, France but later took British nationality. He studied art in the studios of François-Joseph Duret and Aimé Millet and at the school of fine arts under Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. A period of poverty led him to becoming a cabinetmaker, but in 1872, at the age of 24, on the recommendation of fellow sculptor Jules Dalou, he moved to London to work as a studio assistant to Joseph Edgar Boehm. He stayed at the studio until 1890 and influenced Boehm's pupil Alfred Gilbert. Lantéri's sculptures were mainly modelled in clay before being cast in bronze, though he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Legros
Alphonse Legros (8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later took British citizenship. He was important as a teacher in the British etching revival. Life Legros was born in Dijon; his father was an accountant, and came from the neighbouring village of Véronnes. While young, Legros visited the farms of his relatives, and the peasants and landscapes of that part of France are the subjects of many of his works. He was sent to the art school at Dijon with a view to qualifying for a trade, and was apprenticed to Maître Nicolardo, house decorator and painter of images. In 1851, Legros left for Paris to take another situation; but passing through Lyon he worked for six months as journeyman wall-painter under the decorator Beuchot, who was painting the chapel of Cardinal Bonald in the cathedral. In Paris, Legros studied with Charles-Antoine Cambon, scene-painter and decorator of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Aston Webb
Sir Aston Webb (22 May 1849 – 21 August 1930) was a British architect who designed the principal facade of Buckingham Palace and the main building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other major works around England, many of them in partnership with Ingress Bell. He was President of the Royal Academy from 1919 to 1924. He was also the founding Chairman of the London Society. Life The son of a watercolourist (and former pupil of the landscape artist David Cox), Edward Webb, Aston Webb was born in Clapham, South London, on 22 May 1849 and received his initial architectural training articled in the firm of Banks and Barry from 1866 to 1871, after which he spent a year travelling in Europe and Asia. He returned to London in 1874 to set up his own practice. From the early 1880s, he joined the Royal Institute of British Architects (1883) and began working in partnership with Ingress Bell (1836–1914). Their first major commission was a winning design for the Victoria Law C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Moore
Esther Mary Moore (6 November 1857–1934) was a British artist known for her sculptures, metalwork and jewellery. Biography Moore was born in Burnley in Lancashire, one of the eight children of Mary Margerison and Henry Moore, who was a master spinner who employed over 900 mill workers plus a number of servants for the family home. After his wife died, he relocated the family to Hampshire and then, in the early 1890s to Bedford Park at Chiswick in London. Esther Moore worked as a designer for a silversmith until she won a scholarship to the National Art Training School, NATS, where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri. Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were a number of other female sculptors including Margaret Giles, Ruby Levick, Florence Steele, Lilian Simpson and Lucy Gwendolen Williams. After further training in Paris, Moore established a studio in Chiswick and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, RA, in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Marsden
Walter Marsden (1882–1969) was an English sculptor born in Lancashire. He saw active service in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, like many other sculptors who were also ex-servicemen, he carried out sculptural work on war memorials. Most of these were erected in Lancashire. Marsden also spoke at speaking engagements about a wide variety of art-related topics. In 1944 he became an instructor at Saint Martin's School of Art and continued teaching until about 1952. Personal and career life Walter Marsden, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Church near Accrington in Lancashire, England in 1882.''Walter Marsden MC.'' Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 23 August 2012 Starting in 1901 he was an apprentice at the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Levick
Ruby Winifred Levick (11 September 1871 – 31 March 1940) was a Welsh sculptor and medallist who had many of her works exhibited at the Royal Academy. Biography Levick was born in Llandaff, Glamorgan, the daughter of George Levick, a civil engineer from Blaina, and Jeannie Sowerby. Her younger brother was the explorer George Murray Levick. She studied at the National Art Training School, NATS, in London between 1893 and 1897, where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri and where she won a gold medal for her statuette ''Boys Wrestling''. Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were several other notable female sculptors including Margaret Giles, Esther Moore, Florence Steele, Lilian Simpson and Lucy Gwendolen Williams. Throughout her career Levick specialised in bronze statuettes and garden pieces, often of children at play or of people in motion. Her statuettes of male athletes and groups of working people, for example ''Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Ledward
Gilbert Ledward (23 January 1888 – 21 June 1960), was an English sculptor. He won the British Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1913, and in World War I served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and later as a war artist. He was professor of sculpture at the Royal College of Art and in 1937 was elected a Royal Academician. He became president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a trustee of the Royal Academy. Early life Born in Chelsea in west London, Ledward was the third of the four children of Richard Arthur Ledward (1857–1890), a sculptor, by his marriage to Mary Jane Wood. His grandfather, Richard Perry Ledward, had been a Staffordshire master potter with the firm of Pinder, Bourne & Co. of Burslem. His father died when Ledward was only two. He was educated at St Mark's College, Chelsea until 1901, when his mother took the family to live in Germany. In 1905 Ledward began to train as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art under Édouard Lantéri, and in Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sargeant Jagger
Charles Sargeant Jagger (17 December 1885 – 16 November 1934) was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war. He is best known for his war memorials, especially the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner and the Great Western Railway War Memorial in Paddington Railway Station. He also designed several other monuments around Britain and other parts of the world. Biography Jagger was the son of a colliery manager, and was educated at Sheffield Royal Grammar School. At age 14 he became an apprentice metal engraver with the Sheffield firm Mappin & Webb. He studied at the Sheffield School of Art before moving to London to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1908–11) under Édouard Lantéri. Jagger worked as Lanteri's assistant, and also as instructor in modelling at the Lambeth School of Art. He counted among his friends William Reid Dick and William McMillan. His early works dealt with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Hutchinson
Allen Hutchinson (8 January 1855 – 28 July 1929 London) was an English sculptor. Hutchinson was born in Staffordshire, England. He trained in London under Édouard Lantéri. He travelled to Canada and California in 1886. In 1888, he moved to Hawaii, where he modeled busts of King Kalākaua, Robert Louis Stevenson, and president of the Republic of Hawaii Sanford B. Dole. While in Hawaii, Hutchinson married, and the couple had a daughter. In 1894, he was one of the founders of the Kilohana Art League. In 1899, Hutchinson and his family left Hawaii for Australia and New Zealand. He returned to the United States in 1902, and moved back to London in 1928. He died in London on 28 July 1929.Kamerling, 1989 The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale University), the Bishop Museum (Honolulu), the Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Giles
Margaret May Giles (20 May 1868 – 31 March 1949) was a British painter, sculptor, and medallist. She was a member of the Society of Medallists and exhibited at their first exhibition in 1898 which was held at the Dutch Gallery in London, where her piece "Two Medals" was favorably critiqued. Biography Giles was born in Clifton, Bristol, the daughter of Richard William Giles, a barrister, and Frances Elizabeth Giles. Her older sister was the painter Frances Giles. Margaret was educated at Kensington High School and in Brussels and Heidelberg. She spent eight years at the National Art Training School, NATS, in London. Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were a number of other female sculptors including Ruby Levick, Esther Moore, Florence Steele, Lilian Simpson and Lucy Gwendolen Williams. During the 1890s Giles won a number of national art prizes with her model ''Hero'' winning the Art Union of London's statuette competition in 1895 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis William Doyle-Jones
Francis William Doyle Jones, sometimes Francis William Doyle-Jones, (11 November 1873–10 June 1938) was a British sculptor. Although principally a portrait sculptor, Jones is notable for the number of war memorials he created for British towns and cities following both the Boer War and World War I. Biography Jones was born, to Irish parents, in Hartlepool. He was the eldest son of a stonemason and monumental sculptor, Francis Jones (c. 1846–1918), from County Monaghan and for a time worked for his father before studying in Paris. Jones returned to England to study at the National Art Training School in London, where he was taught by Édouard Lantéri. After graduating, Jones established a studio at Chelsea in west London and had his first sculpture shown at the Royal Academy in 1903. Between then and 1936, Jones had about thirty works, including portraits and statuettes, exhibited at the Academy. Throughout the 1910s, he also regularly exhibited with the International Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Carrick
Alexander Carrick (20 February 1882 – 1966) was a Scottish sculptor. He was one of Scotland's leading monumental sculptors of the early part of the 20th century. He was responsible for many architectural and ecclesiastical works as well as many war memorials executed in the period following World War I. As head of sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, and as a leading member of the Royal Scottish Academy, Carrick had a lasting influence on Scottish sculpture. Early years Alexander Carrick was born in 1882, the son of a blacksmith in the small town of Musselburgh, just east of Edinburgh. In 1897 he enrolled as a student at Edinburgh College of Art and was apprenticed as a stonemason working in the yard of one of the prominent monumental sculptors of the period, Birnie Rhind. He won the Queen's Prize allowing him to go to London to study for two years at the South Kensington College under the French-born sculptor Professor Édouard Lantéri. He then returned to Edinburgh, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Clemens
Benjamin Clemens (5 October 1875 – 27 December 1957) was a 20th-century sculptor who worked in London. Early life Clemens was born in Dalston, North London, the son of Richard Clemens, a salesman and warehouse worker originally from Cornwall. He received some schooling at Lonsbury College at Hackney Downs but at the age of 15 was working as a haberdasher's assistant. By his mid-twenties he was studying art, first at the North London School of Drawing and then at the Royal College of Art. Clemens submitted works to the British Institution's student competition, and his talent was recognized with a two-year scholarship in sculpture paying £50 a year and inclusion in the associated exhibition at the Tate Museum. After his studies at the Royal College of Art Clemens was appointed assistant master under Professor Édouard Lantéri. He exhibited his sculpture regularly in major British exhibitions, including the Royal Academy's Annual Exhibition, where ''The Collector and Art Critic' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
