Mary Morton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 March 1879 Stroud, England |
| Died | 15 June 1965 (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Bristol School of Art Royal College of Art |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
| Years active | 1907–1948 [1] |
Mary Morton (21 March 1879 – 15 June 1965) was a British sculptor.
Morton was born in Stroud, England on 21 March 1879. Her father was George Morton, a surgeon who was born around 1839 in the East Indies. She attended the Bristol School of Art before studying at the modelling school of the Royal College of Art between 1911 and 1913. [2]
In 1913 Morton became a Royal West of England Academy Academician. In 1928 she became an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors before becoming a Fellow in 1948. [2] Her work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. [3] She also worked closely with the Associate of the Society of Women Artists and exhibited 105 works with the society between 1913 and 1960. [2]
Her sculpture of Charles Kennedy Scott is held by the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance [4] and her woodcarving, Study of a Nude Girl beneath a Tree Carved with Foliage, is held by the Royal West of England Academy. [5] During World War II she worked as an ARP warden at Princess Beatrice Hospital. [2]
Morton died on 15 June 1965 in Sopworth House, 4 Rosecroft Avenue, Hampstead, London. At the time of her death, her estate was worth £22,900. [2]
Henry Holiday was an English Victorian painter of historical genre and landscapes, also a stained-glass designer, illustrator, and sculptor. He was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, many of whom he knew.
Edith Agnes Kathleen Young, Baroness Kennet, FRBS was a British sculptor. Trained in London and Paris, Scott was a prolific sculptor, notably of portrait heads and busts and also of several larger public monuments. These included a number of war memorials plus statues of her first husband, the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes her as "the most significant and prolific British women sculptor before Barbara Hepworth", her traditional style of sculpture and her hostility to the abstract work of, for example Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, has led to a lack of recognition for her artistic achievements.
Frank Owen Dobson CBE was a British artist and sculptor and during his time was considered one of the best sculptors in Europe. He was a contemporary of Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore.
Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke was an English medieval historian. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Queen's University, Belfast, and the Victoria University of Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at the University of Oxford. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1946.
Dame Laura Knight was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for female artists.

Anne Crawford Acheson was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and internationally. She was awarded the CBE in 1919. During the First World War she worked for the Surgical Requisites Association at Mulberry Walk in Chelsea, London. Acheson received the Gleichen Memorial Award in 1938. She divided her time between London and Glenavy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Elsa Fraenkel née Rothschild (1892–1975) was a German–born British sculptor raised in Heidelberg, Germany.
Arthur Ambrose McEvoy was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour.
Anthony Imre Alexander Gross was a British printmaker, painter, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent.

Clifford Hall, ROI, NS, was a British painter of street scenes and bohemian life. One of his more recognizable post-war phases was that of people covered to various degrees by a towel or blanket. Some have their faces turned from the viewer or hidden.
Hazel Ruthven Armour was a Scottish sculptor and medalist.
Ethel Gresley Ball, was an Irish artist working in both paintings and sculpture. She is best known for her studies of animals at the Royal Zoological Gardens, Dublin.

Averil Mary Burleigh born Averil Mary Dell was a British artist and painter. Based in Sussex, Burleigh was known for painting in egg tempera with the subject usually involving a central figure. Her husband and daughter also painted but she is the best regarded of the three.
Alice Lindley-Millican (1885–1930) was a British sculptor known for her figurative works.
Edward Louis Lawrenson was an Irish painter of landscapes and an etcher.
Alfred Ernest Egerton Cooper, RBA, ARCA, was a British painter of portraits, landscapes and other figurative work. In the era of Modernism, he continued to work in traditional style from his studio in Chelsea, London.

Hilda Annetta Walker FRSA was an English sculptor, and a painter of landscapes, seascapes and horses, flourishing between 1902 and 1958. She was a war artist painting in England during the First and Second World Wars, and described as "escapist". Some of her early work was the production of oilette postcard paintings for Raphael Tuck & Sons, of firemen and horses. She was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to a family of blanket manufacturers who had the means to foster her art education. She grew up in the Protestant work ethic of Congregationalism, and attended Leeds College of Art, where she studied under William Gilbert Foster of the Staithes group and William Charles Holland King, sculptor of Dover Marine War Memorial. She signed her works "Hilda Walker" or sometimes "Hilda A. Walker".
Catherine Gardiner was a British theatre actress, artists' model, amateur golfer and amateur artist. She was married to the portrait painter David Jagger RP, ROI (1891-1958).
William Edwards Miller FSA was a British artist known as a society portrait painter as well as an antiquarian horological collector.