Beaux Arts Gallery
Foundation date: 1923
Dissolution date: 1965
Function: Dealers gallery
Meeting schedule: annual
History or description: Founded and operated by portrait sculptor Federick Lessore in 1923, the gallery was run by his wife Helen Lessore, a painter, until it closed in 1965.
Activities: exhibitions (open to non-members)
Publications: exhibition catalogues
Associated People
Directors included Frederick Lessore
1923 - 1951
Founded the gallery and later ran it in partnership with his wife, Helen Lessore.
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Henry Lessore, ‘Lessore de Saint-Foix , Helen [Helen Lessore] (1907–1994)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55098, accessed 27 July 2009]
Who was Who
December 2007
‘LESSORE, Frederick’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U239805, accessed 27 July 2009]
Citing this record
'Beaux Arts Gallery', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=ann_1248727093, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
