Sarah Ann Terry
Born 1840 (Circa)
Died 25 December 1913
Active: 1862 - 1881
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, medallist
Born in Buckinghamshire. Sarah was the daughter of Edward Terry (born c.1800 in Buckinghamshire), master brewer. After her father's death she lived with her mother in Richmond and then with her sister in Hastings from about 1901. In 1869 Terry made a pair of statuettes that were reproduced in Parian by Copeland. The first, entitled 'Evangeline', is the eponymous heroine of a poem by Longfellow of 1847, and the second, 'Marguerite', is a character in Goethe's 'Faust'. Terry exhibited a terracotta statuette entitled 'Maidenhood' at the International Exhibition of 1871, London (Official Catalogue of the Fine Arts Department, Division I, Class II, East Galleries, cat. no. 2764, p. 135). She practiced as an artist up to 1881 but seems to have ceased activity after this date. She died in Hastings in 1913.
Wealth at death: £7,969 17s. 1d.
Probate date: 13 February 1914
Locations
Address Walton Terrace Aylesbury | View on map
1862 - 1871
Living here with her family
Address 6 Pembroke Villas Richmond | View on map
1873 (Circa) - 1879 (Circa)
Address 4 Montague Terrace Onslow Road Richmond | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address 14 St Matthew's Drive Hastings | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1913
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1862 - 1879
Exhibited 9 times, 11 works in all (a mixture of ideal works, portraits and medallions)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
None
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Artist'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Living on Own Means'
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 1412 folio 38 page 23
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 843; Folio: 83; Page: 20; GSU roll: 1341199
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 871 folio 130 page 19
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Sarah Ann Terry
Probate Date: 13 Feb 1914
Death Date: 25 Dec 1913
Death Place: St Leonards-On-Sea, Sussex, England
Registry: Lewes
The Parian Phenomenon: A Survey of Victorian Parian Porcelain Statuary and Busts
1989
pp. 152, 170, and 263.
Citing this record
'Sarah Ann Terry', 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/person.php?id=ann_1285433089, accessed 03 Oct 2023]
