Miss Marion Willis Stanfield
Other names: Stanfield-Braun
Born 1891
Died 17 March 1965
Active: 1927 - 1959
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Plymouth, Devon. She was the daughter of John Charles Stanfield (born c.1854 in Manchester), a Wesleyan Methodist Minister. Stanfield originally trained and worked as kindergarten teacher. She married Walter Braun, a woollen merchant, and subsequently hyphenated her name to Stanfield-Braun.
Wealth at death: £5,091 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 25 June 1965
Works
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Sleepy Baby
1927 (Presumed)
£5 15s.
Laughing Baby
1927 (Presumed)
£10 10s.
Betty
1927 (Presumed)
£7 7s.
Mary Jane
1927 (Presumed)
£6 6s.
Christopher Robin
1927 (Presumed)
£6 6s.
Locations
Address 27 Catherine Street Buckingham Gate London | View on map
1927 (Circa) - 1928
Address 5 Joubert Studios Jubilee Place London | View on map
1932 (Circa)
Address 14 Windsor Street Chertsey | View on map
1943 (Circa) - 1946 (Circa)
Address 92 Palace Gardens Terrace London | View on map
1947 (Circa) - 1950 (Circa)
Address 6 Gunter Grove Fulham Road London SW | View on map
1951 (Circa) - 1959 (Circa)
She was at number 6A
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, 1927
'Child's Head'
Exhibited at The Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1927-1928
31 October 1927 - 4 February 1928
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1932 - 1959
Exhibited 8 times (5 times prior to 1951), ten works in all, a mixture of statuettes, portrait heads and reliefs mostly in bronze
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1950
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 1 time: 1950 (1 work)
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1949
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1946 (Presumed)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Kindergarten Teacher'
Sources
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Members and Craftsmen
1946 (Probable)
Catalogue for the Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1927
1927
Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, Leeds City Art Gallery 1927
1927 (Presumed)
Cat. No. 340, pp. 23, 30
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN17819 RG78PN1090 RD382 SD3 ED12 SN105
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Marion Willis Stanfield
Registration Year: 1891
Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district: Plymouth
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 225
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Marion Willis Braun
[Marion Willis Stanfield-Braun]
Death Date: 17 Mar 1965
Death Place: London, England
Probate Date: 25 Jun 1965
Registry: London, England
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1949, to be Presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting, 1950
February 1950
p. 3.
Citing this record
'Miss Marion Willis Stanfield', 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_1220265129, accessed 01 Jun 2023]