Professor Edouard Lanteri
Other names: Lantéri
Born 1 November 1848
Died 18 December 1917
Active: 1898 - 1913
Country of birth: France
Country of death: United Kingdom
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Auxerre, Burgundy, France. Showing precocious talent, Lanteri studied at the Petite Ecole de Dessin, Paris (c1863-5) whilst working for Francois-Joseph Duret. He then studied more formally at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Pierre-Jules Cavelier and Eugène Guillaume (c.1865–c.1868).
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) Lanteri worked as a cabinet maker's assistant. In 1872, through his friend, Jules Dalou, Lanteri obtained a position in London with Joseph Edgar Boehm where he remained until the latter's death in 1890. He was one of the staff to travel in Boehm's funeral cortège: "In the fifth carriage were the following members of the professional staff of the deceased - Mr. R. Glassby, Mr. E. Lanteri, Signor Finili, and Herr Gross."
From 1880-1917 Lanteri taught at the National Art Training School (later renamed Royal College of Art), South Kensington where he became the first Professor of Sculpture and Modelling in 1901. Using his teaching notes as the basis Lanteri wrote a three-volume text 'Modelling: a Guide for Teachers and Students' (1902–11) which soon became the standard work in the field.
Wealth at death: £2,335 7s. 1d.
Probate date: 11 June 1918
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Designed Medals: obv. 'Augustus Harris, Esq.', rev. 'Tragedy, Comedy', etc.
R. Phene Spiers, Esq.
1905 (Presumed)
Le Sacristain
1909 (Presumed)
Locations
Address Oakley Studio 1 Upper Cheyne Row London | View on map
1900 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Address South Kensington London | View on map
1906 (Presumed)
Address given as 'Royal College of Art' in RA nominations book in 1906.
Address Royal College of Art London | View on map
1907 (Circa) - 1913 (Circa)
Died at 50 Perryn Road East Acton London | View on map
18 December 1917
Mark Stocker, ‘Lanteri, Edward (1848–1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62455, accessed 22 July 2009]
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Sixth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1906
'Travailleur'
Exhibited at Seventh Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1907
'Fisherman and Mermaid'
Exhibited at Exhibition of Fair Women (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1908
Multiple works
Exhibited at Ninth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1909
'Monsignor'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1905
'R. Phene Spiers, Esq.'
Exhibited at The Eighty-Third Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1909-1910
'Le Sacristain'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1885 - 1917
Exhibited 33 times, an average of two works per year.
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1896 - 1910
Exhibited 4 times (an average of 2 works per show)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
The Fisherman and the Mermaid (cat. no. 1468, bronze group, not for sale).
Exhibited at Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the British School 1878-1903, and Sculpture (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1903
September 1903
Lanteri exhibited three sculptures (all of the works were undated).
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1907 - 1913
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 3 times: 1907 (1 work), 1911 (1 work) and 1913 (2 works).
Exhibited at Exhibition of sculpture by the late Prof. E. Lanteri (Leicester Galleries), 1920
January 1920 - January
Posthumous showing of his work
Institutional and Business Connections
Associated with Joseph Hemming and Co.
1889 (Presumed)
Employee of Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1888 - 1889
Examiner of prizes for the Modelled and Modelled Design course.
Member of Art Workers Guild
May 1901 - 1906
Resigned in 1906.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1905 - 1917
Amongst those 'Invited to join without the formality of proposal and seconding' [January 10 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]. Died in 1917.
Professor of sculpture at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1900 - 1917
See a list of 'Previous Holders of the Post of Professor' in the School Prospectus (1926-1927), unpaged.
Teacher of modeling at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1880 - 1917 (Circa)
See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60.
In 1901, Lanteri was appointed as the college's first Professor of Modelling and Sculpture (see separate relationship)
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant was Oliver Sheppard
1901 - 1902
Assisted by Ernest Fuller Fabian
1888
As students at the National Art Training School Ernest Fuller and Michael Murphy helped run a summer course to teach teachers from art schools around Britain the art of clay modelling. The course was led by Edouard Lanteri and superintended by Felix Martin Miller.
Assisted by Michael Murphy
1888
As students at the National Art Training School Ernest Fuller and Michael Murphy helped run a summer course to teach teachers from art schools around Britain the art of clay modelling. The course was led by Edouard Lanteri and superintended by Felix Martin Miller.
Employed as studio assistant Lillian Maud Wade (Morris)
1911 (Circa)
Nominated by William Blake Richmond
13 November 1906
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ernest George Gillick
15 January 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Nominator of Richard Reginald Goulden
5 November 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Nominator of James Alexander Stevenson
7 December 1908
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors [7 December 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Nominator of Frank Gatter
1914 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Seconded by William Hamo Thornycroft
13 November 1906
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of Percival (Percy) Herbert Portsmouth
5 November 1906
For memebership of Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconder of Sidney Nicholson Boyes
2 November 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [2 November 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconder of Vincent Hill
7 December 1908
For membership of Royal Society of British Sculptors [7 December 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconder of Joseph Else
5 July 1909
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [5 July 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconder of Charles Vyse
19 June 1911
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [19 June 1911, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconder of Robert Jackson Emerson
21 October 1912
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [1912, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Studio assistant to (Joseph) Edgar Boehm
1872 - 1890
Lanteri received the offer of employment through Jules Dalou (Stocker, ODNB).
Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 302, notes Lanteri's position as Boehm's assistant.
Studio assistant with Robert Glassby Snr
1872 (Circa) - 1890
Glassby was principal studio assistant. After his death, Lanteri helped Glassby's family by organising a fund to provide financial assistance.
Taught Hypatia Rodocanachi
See Forrer, vol. 5, (1912), p. 146, no dates are given.
Taught Francis Derwent Wood
Taught Sophia Rosamond Praeger
Taught (James) Seamus Stoupe
Taught Oliver Sheppard
1888 - 1891
Studied Modelling while at the Royal College of Art.
Taught Lucy Gwendolen Williams
1895 (Circa) - 1897
At the National Art Training Schools (Royal College of Art)
Taught Anne Crawford Acheson
1907 (Circa) - 1910
Taught Charles Thomas Wheeler
1912 - 1917
Wheeler also assisted Lanteri in the studio
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume III, 1907 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor. Assistant to Edgar Boehm at the age of twenty. Suceeded M. Dalou as master of sculpture classes at the National Art Training School (Royal College of Art), London. Memmber of the London Society of Medallists. Forrer cites F. Parkes Weber's 'Nineteenth century English medals by foreign Artists', which lists medals by Lanteri that date from 1888 to 1905. Forrer also cites a passage from Spielmann's 'British Sculpture and Sculptors of to-day' (1901), pp. 127-128. See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), pp. 302-303.
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1901, p.8..
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Papers relating to the founding of the Society
1888 (Circa)
'National Exhibition of the Arts'. Listed as one of 20 sculptors invited to be part of selection and hanging committee.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.132.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
Catalogue of the Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the British School, 1873-1903, and Sculpture, 1903
1903
p. 79 and pp. 86-87.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Edouard Lanteri
Probate Date: 11 Jun 1918
Death Date: 18 Dec 1917
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London
Page 18
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)
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Mark Stocker, ‘Lanteri, Edward (1848–1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62455, accessed 22 July 2009]
Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
Prospectus of the Royal College of Art, 1926-1927 Royal College of Art
1926
Unpaged list of former staff.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1906.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
10 January 1905; 15 January 1906; 5 November 1906; 8 November 1908; 7 December 1908; 5 July 1909; 19 June 1911; 21 October 1912; 17 February 1913.
The Royal College of Art: Its Influences on Education, Art and Design 1900-1950, 1991 Royal College of Art
August 1991
p. 588.
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Late Sir Edgar Boehm..
The Times (London, England), Monday, Dec 22, 1890; pg. 10; Issue 33201. (988 words)
Citing this record
'Professor Edouard Lanteri', 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=msib2_1203709084, accessed 23 Sep 2021]
