Allan & Sons
Active: 1910 - 1950
Function: Granite workers and polishers / marble cutters/ monumental sculptors
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.
Installed The Scottish National War Memorial
1927
<p>stone of remembrance: granite floor</p>
Locations
Ran a business at 4 George Place Edinburgh | View on map
1910 (Circa) - 1920 (Circa)
p. 912
Listed under 'Granite workers and polishers'
Works located at Piershill Granite works Portobello Road Edinburgh | View on map
1910 (Circa) - 1920
p. 912
Listed under 'Granite workers and polishers'
Institutional and Business Connections
Successor to Young & Allan
1910 (Circa) - 1920
p. 912
Listed under 'Granite workers and polishers'
Associated People
Commissioned by Robert Stodart Lorimer
1927
p. 30
Worked with William Allan
1910 (Circa) - 1920
p. 912
Listed under 'Granite workers and polishers'
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1910-1911
p. 964
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1920-1921
p. 860
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1930-1931
p. 1205
Listed under Sculptors
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1940-1941
p. 1098
Listed under Sculptors
Listed under Monumental Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1950-1951
p. 1037
listed under Sculptors
Listed under Stone Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1910-1911
p. 912
Listed under 'Granite workers and polishers'
p. 939
Listed under 'Marble Cutters'
Listed under Stone Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1920-1921
p. 774
Listed under Cement and Artificial Stone Cutters
P. 832
Listed under Marble Cutters
Listed under Stone Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1930-1931
p. 1142
Listed under Granite Workers and Polishers
P. 1169
Listed under Marble Cutters
Listed under Stone Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1940-1941
p. 1050
p. 1070
Listed under Marble Cutters
Listed under Stone Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1950-1951
p. 1016
Listed under Granite Workers and Polishers
Listed under Stone Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1950-1951
p. 1035
Listed under Marble Cutters
Sources
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1910-1911
1910
p. 912
Listed under 'Granite workers and polishers'
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1920-1921
1920
p. 774
p. 860
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1930-1931
1930
p. 1142
Listed under Granite Workers and Polishers
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1940-1941
1940
p. 1050
p. 1070
Listed under Marble Cutters
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1950-1951
1950
Listed under Cement and Artificial Stone Merchants.
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1877 Walker Art Gallery
1877
pp. 69-71.
Scottish National War Memorial
October 2004
p. 30
Citing this record
'Allan & Sons', 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=msib6_1218538253, accessed 10 Jun 2023]