Samuel William Ward Willis

Works

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The Dawn of Thought

Vanity's Harvest
1901 (Presumed)
£31 10s.

Locations

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Address 20 Kilburn Park Road London | View on map
1899 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)

Address 1 Fitzroy Road Regent's Park London | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1915 (Circa)

Address 1 Fitzroy Square Regent's Park London | View on map
1912 (Circa)
This may be a mistake in the source and it should be Fitzroy Road.

Address 5 Adelaide Road London NW3 | View on map
1916 (Circa)

Address The Studio 5A Regent's Park Road London NW | View on map
1917 (Circa) - 1918 (Circa)

Address 4 Belsize Studios Glenisla Road London NW3 | View on map
1919 (Circa) - 1935 (Circa)

Address 28 Woodside Road Parkstone | View on map
1948
Living at this address when he died.

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
'The Dawn of Thought'

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1897
1897
The Dawn of Thought (cat. no. 1300, bust, not for sale).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
'Do!' (cat. no. 1363, plaster bust, £15 15s.).

Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Fifty-Sixth, 1901
1901

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1904 - 1935
Exhibited 19 times, twenty works in all (statuettes, busts, and groups in bronze where medium is given).

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1912
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 1 time: 1912 (1 work)

Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1932
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 1 time: 1932 (1 work)

Promoted Prize for Distinguished Service to Sculpture (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1923-1949
1923
The prize was originally proposed by T. M. Crook and 'seconded' by Ward-Willis, to the Council of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1928 (Circa)
Resigned in 1928 only to rejoin in 1946.

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1909 - 1948

Rejoined Royal Society of British Sculptors
1946 - 1948 (Circa)
Died in 1948.

Personal and Professional Connections

Nominated by Francis Derwent Wood
4 January 1909
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [4 January 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].

Seconded by Arthur George Walker
4 January 1909
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [4 January 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].

Descriptions of Practice

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Draper's Assistant' worker (presume for his father who was a draper).

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist (Sculptor)' working own account at home

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist Sculptor' worker

Occupation given in London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
1895
'Sculptor'

Sources

A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures at the Second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers 1899
1899
p.35.

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh, 1897 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1897
pp. 44-47.

Catalogue for the Fifty-Sixth Exhibition of the Bristol Academy for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, 1901
1901

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 1046; Folio: 48; Page: 29; GSU Roll: 6096156

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 133; Folio: 37; Page: 4

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN680 RG78PN23 RD9 SD1 ED29 SN1

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Samuel William W Willis Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1868 Registration district: Kensington Inferred County: London Volume: 1a Page: 31

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Samuel William Willis Probate Date: 7 May 1948 Death Date: 1 Mar 1948 Death Place: Dorset, England Registry: London, England

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Augustine, Paddington, Register of marriages, P87/AUG, Item 012.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1946, to be Presented at the Forty-Third Ordinary General Meeting, 1947
March 1947
p. 3.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
4 January 1909.

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 8: Toft to Zwecker
1906
p. 301

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 4, R-Z
1991
p.379

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 4, R-Z
1991
p.433