Leonard Stanford Merrifield FRBS

Works

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Faith
1915 (Presumed)

Hope
1915 (Presumed)

Charity
1915 (Presumed)

Timber Hauling
1924 (Presumed)
£50

The Navy
1925 (Presumed)
£38 17s.

Disarming
1931 (Presumed)
£45

The Navy
1931 (Circa)

Disarming
1933 (Circa)

Cupid
1933 (Circa)

The Slave
1935 (Circa)

Cupid
1937

The Miner
1938

The Miner's Wife
1938

Bust of Lord Carson
1938

Locations

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Address 26 Coberg Avenue Fulham London | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Also at this address as lodgers: Richard Whiteman (26) stone carver, born in Worcester and Gilbert H Biffen (21) stone carver, born in Cheltenham.

Address 116D King's Road Chelsea London | View on map
1912 (Circa) - 1923
Prior to this address was Stamford Bridge Studios, Fulham (1906-12)

Address 48 Glebe Place Chelsea London SW | View on map
1923 - 1941 (Presumed)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventieth Annual Exhibition, 1931
'The Navy'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
'The Slave'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Disarming'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937
'Cupid'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1906 - 1943
Exhibited 36 times, usually two or three works.

Exhibited at Exhibition in aid of the funds of the Welsh Military Hospital, Netley, 1913
13 December 1915 - 18 December 1915

Exhibited at The Seventy-Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1924
1924

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1924 - 1940
Exhibited 5 times (one work per show)

Exhibited at The Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925-1926
2 November 1925 - 6 February 1926

Exhibited at South Wales Art Society 43rd Annual Exhibition of Modern Art, 1931
2 October 1931 - 21 October 1931

Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938

Speaker at Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1924

Speaker at Rodin (Art Workers Guild), 1927

Speaker at Animals in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at Carpeaux and His Times (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Speaker at The Artist and Scientist View of Truth (Art Workers Guild), 1932

Speaker at American Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1935

Took part in Gold Beating and the Use of Gold Leaf (Art Workers Guild), 1929

Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1904

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1926
Became fellow in 1926

Elected to membership of Chelsea Arts Club

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1926 - 1943
Died in 1943.

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1909 - 1943

Member of Art Workers Guild
10 June 1922 - 1943
Committee member 1929-1931.

Member of The South Wales Art Society
1931
The artist is listed as an honorary member in 1931.

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1921 - 1942
Served as a Member of the Council from 1921 to 1924, from 1929 to 1935, and from 1938

Received award from Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
1939
Awarded the Gold Medal [Fifty-sixth annual report of the Committee of the Art Workers' Guild, p.19].

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1904 (Presumed)
Awarded a first prize of £30 for a model of a design and a one year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture, in 1904. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1904', (1905), p. 28.

Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], despite nominations in 1917, 1925, 1933 and 1941.

Personal and Professional Connections

Nominated by William Goscombe John
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].

Nominated by Thomas Brock
26 April 1917
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by George Clausen
26 April 1917 - 1925
two nominations for RA, in 1917 and 1925, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by George James Frampton
26 April 1917 - 1925
Two nominations for RA, in 1917 and 1925, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by Alexander Stanhope Forbes
26 April 1917
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Arthur Hacker
26 April 1917
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Goscombe John
26 April 1917 - 1925
Two nominations for RA, in 1917 and 1925, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by Frederick William Pomeroy
26 April 1917
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Hamo Thornycroft
26 April 1917
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by (Edgar) Bertram Mackennal
26 April 1917
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by David Murray
26 April 1917 - 1925
Two nominations for RA, in 1917 and 1925, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Llewellyn
1925
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Samuel Melton Fisher
1925
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
November 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Alfred Turner
November 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Walter Westley Russell
November 1933 - March 1941
Two nominations for For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1933 and 1941, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
March 1941
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William McMillan
March 1941
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominator of Philip Lindsey Clark
1922 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Charles Sykes
March 1938 - March
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Nominator of Herbert William Palliser
1939 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Seconded by Harold Parker
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

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 VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist living in London. Forrer notes that the artist exhibited the 'Glamorgan County Council First Aid Medal' and 'The Sacrifice Triumphant' plaque at the Royal Academy, London, in 1918. See vol. 8, (1930), pp. 56-57.

Listed under Sculptors The London Directory, 1930 Post Office/Kelly London Directories

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Stone carver'

Sources

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-first Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1931
November 1931
p. 61

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-Third Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1935
November 1935
p. 70

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1904, 1905 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1905
pp. 28-29.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1924, 1925 Royal Academy Annual Reports
20 February 1925
pp. 2, 9

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1922, p.12; 1924, p.7; 1927, p.6; 1929, p.6, pp.8-9; 1932, p.12 and all lists of members' addresses 1922-1933.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.59.

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 VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1930
pp. 56-57.

Catalogue for Exhibition in aid of the funds of the Welsh Military Hospital, Netley
1915

Catalogue for the Eightieth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1925
1925

Catalogue for the Seventy-Ninth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1924
1924

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 65; Folio: 118; Page: 20

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938 The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Vol. V LAWR-SHER
1981
p. 143-4

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.86.

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.33.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1921. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1921
1921
p. 3

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1922. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1923
26 February 1923
p. 1

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 31 December 1923. To be Presented at the Twentieth Ordinary General Meeting, 1924
1924
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1928, to be Presented at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary General Meeting, 1929
March 1929
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1929, to be Presented at the Twenty-Sixth Ordinary General Meeting, 1930
March 1930
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1930, to be Presented at the Twenty-Seventh Ordinary General Meeting, 1931
March 1931
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1933, to be Presented at the Thirteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1934
March 1934
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1934, to be Presented at the Thirty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1935
March 1935
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1935, to be Presented at the Thirty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1936
March 1936
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1938, to be Presented at the Thirty-Fifth Ordinary General Meeting, 1939
March 1939
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1939, to be Presented at the Thirty-Sixth Ordinary General Meeting, 1940
March 1940
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1940, to be Presented at the Thirty-Seventh Ordinary General Meeting, 1941
March 1941
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1941, to be Presented at the Thirty-Eight Ordinary General Meeting, 1942
March 1942
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1942, to be Presented at the Thirty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting, 1943
March 1943
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1943, to be Presented at the Fortieth Ordinary General Meeting, 1944
March 1944
p. 5.

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

South Wales Art Society 43rd Annual Exhibition Catalogue.
1931

The fifty-second annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1936
1936
p.9.

The fifty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1940
1940
p.19, p.41.

The London Directory, 1930 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1930
p. 1354

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 3, L-P. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1991 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1991
p. 213

The sixtieth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1944
1944
p.9.

Who was Who
December 2007
‘MERRIFIELD, Leonard Stanford’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U229212, accessed 19 Jan 2009]