Frederick Lessore
Other names: Frederick Lessore de Saint- Foix
Born 19 February 1879
Died 14 November 1951
Active: 1905 - 1951
Sculptor, art dealer, gallery owner
Born in Southwick, Sussex. His grandfather was Emile Lessore (the Wedgwood ceramics painter). His sister was the painter (Elaine) Thérèse Lessore. He married the painter Helen Lessore (née Brook).
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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The Right Hon. Lord Reading, Lord Chief Justice
Youthful Pan
1903 (Presumed)
The Spirit of Melody
1903 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 4 Fulham Studios 454A Fullham-road London | View on map
1903 (Presumed)
Address 1 Charterhouse EC London | View on map
1915 (Presumed) - 1921 (Presumed)
Address 7 Bruton Place W1 London | View on map
1921 (Presumed) - 1950 (Presumed)
Used this studio as the Beaux Arts Gallery from 1923.
Studio located at Regent's Park Studios Park Village East London NW | View on map
1907 (Circa) - 1915 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Ninth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1909
'Beatrice'
Exhibited at Twelfth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1912
'Girl's Head'
Exhibited at The Autumn Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Seventeenth London Exhibition), 1914
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Ninth Exhibition, 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
'Madonna and Child'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Seventh Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1903
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'Mother and Child'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition, 1907
'Mark Fisher, Esq.'
Exhibited at Exhibition of Old English Watercolour Drawings (Art Workers Guild), 1936
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1905 - 1933
Exhibited 14 times, usually showing 1 work.
Speaker at The Principles Governing Relief in Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1909
Speaker at Sculpture in Wood (Art Workers Guild), 1911
Speaker at The Treatment of Costume in Painting and Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1911
Speaker at Realism in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Portraiture and Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Speaker at American Sculptors (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at Humorous Art (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at The Golden Names of the Guild (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Speaker at Tradition and (or versus) Individuality in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1923
Speaker at The Present Position of Symbolism and Allegory (Art Workers Guild), 1923
Speaker at Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1924
Speaker at Flower Painting (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Rodin (Art Workers Guild), 1927
Speaker at The Ideal Museum (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Brancusi and Abstractionist Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Modern Architectural Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1930
Speaker at Lesser Known Sculptors of Florence (Art Workers Guild), 1931
Speaker at Sculpture, Carved and Modelled (Art Workers Guild), 1933
Speaker at Pre-Raphaelite Sculptors (Art Workers Guild), 1937
Speaker at Portraiture in Coins (Art Workers Guild), 1916
Speaker at Co-operation of the Architect and the Craftsman (Art Workers Guild), 1922
Institutional and Business Connections
Director of Beaux Arts Gallery
1923 - 1951
Founded the gallery and later ran it in partnership with his wife, Helen Lessore.
Member of Art Workers Guild
November 1910 - 1951
Committee member 1933-1935.
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1905 (Presumed) - 1906 (Presumed)
Awarded a second prize of £15 for a set of four models of a figure from the life, in 1905. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1905', (1906), p. 32. In 1906, Lessore won a second prize silver medal for a model of a bust from the life, and a first prize of £20 and a silver medal for a set of four models of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1906', (1907), p. 33.
Teacher at Central School of Arts and Crafts
September 1908 - June 1909
Listed as a teacher of 'Decorative Plaster Work' in 1908. Not listed in the 1909-1910 prospectus.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors 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 living in London. Exhibited a portrait plaque in bronze 'of Mark Fischer' at the Royal Academy in 1905. See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 422.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1909, p.5; 1910, p.8; 1911, pp.6-7 and all lists of members' addresses, 1910-1912.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1913, p.13; 1916, p.7; 1922, pp.7-10; 1923, pp.4-6; 1924, p.7; 1925, p.5; 1927, p.6; 1928, p.8; 1929, p.8; 1930, p.8; 1931, p.11; 1933, p.9, and all lists of members' addresses 1913-1933.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.268.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Ninth Exhibition.
1910
p.131, p.144, p.146.
Catalogue of the Autumn Exhibition, 1914, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W. (Seventeenth London Exhibition)
1914
p.41, p.44.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. No. 235, pp. 25, 79
Catalogue of the Twenty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition, 1907
1907
Cat. No. 274, pp. 49, 57
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus & Time-Table for the Session Commencing 21 September 1908
21 September 1908
p. 2.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Henry Lessore, ‘Lessore de Saint-Foix , Helen [Helen Lessore] (1907–1994)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/55098, accessed 27 July 2009]
The fifty-fourth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1938
1938
p.15.
The fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1937
1937
p.13.
The sixty-eighth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1951
1951
Notice of death.
The sixty-fifth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1949
1949
p.22.
Who was Who
December 2007
‘LESSORE, Frederick’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U239805, accessed 27 July 2009]
Citing this record
'Frederick Lessore', 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_1204245754, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
