Caroline Louisa Byng Lucas
Born 1886
Died 27 December 1967
Active: 1935 - 1950
Sculptor, painter, gallery owner, print maker
She was the daughter of Charles Davis Lucas, a rear Admiral and JP. Caroline studied art in Paris, Rome and London. She lived and ran a gallery in Lewes in East Sussex with her sister, Frances Byng-Stamper. They staged over 40 exhibitions, which included work by Matisse, Roualt and Duncan Grant, a near neighbour, as well as Lucas' own work. The sisters had founded the Miller's Press (named after their house) in 1945 with the purpose of encouraging British artists to work in the little used medium of colour lithography. They commissioned and published prints by a number of artists, including Vanessa Bell, David Jones, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde; the first portfolio of eight hand-pulled lithographs was published in an edition of 250. In addition they founded the Society of London Painter-Printers in conjunction with the Redfern Gallery, London in 1948.
Based on information from the British Council Collection see http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection/artist/5/18405
Wealth at death: £5,918 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 15 May 1968
Works
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Roma
1935 (Presumed)
Cow and Milkmaid
1935 (Presumed)
Wheat
1935 (Presumed)
Bull
1935 (Presumed)
Recumbent Bull
1935 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Contemporary Welsh Art (National Museum of Wales), 1935
15 October 1935 - 30 November 1935
Also had paintings included in the exhibition.
Exhibited at Contemporary Welsh Art (Swansea), 1935
12 September 1935 - 3 October 1935
Exhibited at Exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Caroline Byng Lucas (Leicester Galleries), 1939
January 1939
Sources
Catalogue of a Temporary Exhibition. Contemporary Welsh Art
1935
Catalogue of Contemporary Welsh Art Exhibition, Swansea
1935
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
Class: RG14; Piece: 4065; Schedule Number: 11
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Caroline Louisa Byng Lucas
Death Date: 27 Dec 1967
Death Place: Lewes
Probate Date: 15 May 1968
Probate Registry: London
Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd., The Leicester Galleries. An index of 1422 catalogues of exhibitions of European Modern Art and 20th Century British Art, held between 1902 and 1977
http://www.ernestbrownandphillips.ltd.uk (accessed 17 July 2019)
Citing this record
'Caroline Louisa Byng Lucas', 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=msib1_1205496327, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
