Jean Milne
Born 1875
Died 1953
Active: 1904 - 1919
Sculptor, meteal worker, rug and tapestry weaver
Born in Benares, India. She was a sculptor who took up rug and tapestry weaving in the 1920s. [Tanya Harrod, p. 149, see also Rosemary Edmonds and Muriel Rose, 'The art of Miss Jean Milne', 'The Journal, Quarterly Journal of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers', no. 9, March 1954, pp. 264-5]
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.
Cain
1912 (Presumed)
A Little Sphinx
1912 (Circa)
Grief
1912
The Threshold
1912
Quietude
1919 (Circa)
Stricken Youth
1919
Visions
1919
Women at the Sepulchre
1919
£60
Locations
Address 7 Carlyle Mansions The Mall London W | View on map
Address 45 Clanricarde Gardens London | View on map
1911
Studio located at 72 Pembroke Walk S.W. London | View on map
1904 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Studio located at Box Tree Studios Pembroke Walk London | View on map
1912 (Circa)
Studio located at 2 Earl's Walk Studios Kensington London | View on map
1913 (Circa) - 1917 (Circa)
In the 1930s her address was 25 Earl's Walk, Pembroke Square, Kensington, London (London Telephone Directories) and she is also listed at The Cottage, Paxton, Berwick-on-Tweed (Year's Art 1933-40)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Sixth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1906
'The Culprit'
Exhibited at Eighth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1908
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1913
'The Threshold'
Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Sixteenth London Exhibition), 1914
'Averil'
Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Eighteenth London Exhibition), 1915
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Autumn Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Twenty-first London Exhibition), 1916
'Two Women'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Arts & Crafts Exhibition, 1904
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1907
'In Bondage'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
'In Bondage'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1919
'Quietude'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1912
'A Little Sphinx'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1919
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1906 - 1915
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 5 times: 1906 (1 work), 1911 (1 work), 1912 (2 works), 1913 (1 work) and 1915 (1 work)
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1907 - 1917
Exhibited 4 times, one work each time except in 1913 when she showed two pieces (reliefs and statuettes).
Descriptions of Practice
Listed in Studio year-book of decorative art, 1909
'Miss Milne designs and executes
metal and plaster work, with figures in relief, for architectural decoration.'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor & Metal Worker' [name listed as Jane]
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Fifteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1912
November 1912
p. 49 (544)
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Sixteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1919
November 1919
p. 44
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.78, p.164, p.172, p.250.
Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1904
1904
Cat. Nos. 251, 1246, pp. 17, 75, 132
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, 1913, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W.
1913
p.11, p.15, p.27.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, 1914, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W. (Sixteenth London Exhibition)
1914
p.33, p.54.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1907
1907
Cat. No. 725, pp. 57, 80
Catalogue of the Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
1906
Cat. No. 274, pp. 49, 58
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN140 RG78PN5 RD2 SD2 ED1 SN178
Studio year-book of decorative art, 1909
1909
p. 58
The crafts in Britain in the 20th century
1999 (Circa)
p. 149 and footnote 45, p.473, plus other references in the text
Citing this record
'Jean Milne', 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_1203719428, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
