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Miss Margaret J. Wrightson

Born 1877
Died 1976

Active: 1906 - 1961

Country of birth and death: Great Britain

Sculptor

Born in Norton, County Durham. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Wrightson (c.1839-1921), a manufacturer of engineering parts and magistrate whose effects were valued at £212,074 5s. 6d at his death. A statue of 'The Viking landing on the Northumberland Coast', by Wrightson, dating from 1925, stands in the grounds of County Hall, Morpeth. It was formerly at Doxford Hall, the home of Sir Walter Runciman, later Baron Runciman, sailor and shipowner. (See http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/10072/ accessed 23 February 2014, the PMSA entry was drawn to our attention by Roger Hawkins).

Locations

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Address Norton Hall Stockton | View on map
1881 (Circa)

Address Neasham Hall Darlington | View on map
1906 - 1912

Address 56A Bedford Gardens London W8 | View on map
1913 (Circa) - 1961 (Circa)

Address 56B Bedford Gardens London W8 | View on map
1946 (Presumed)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1906 - 1961
Exhibited 19 times, twenty-six works in all (a few statuettes, a fountain group for Wynyard Park in 1913 (cat. no. 1819), the great majority of works were portrait busts and heads).

Selection committee member of Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1940

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
13 November 1929 - 1943
Became fellow in 1943.

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1943 - 1945

Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1946 (Presumed)

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1941 - 1944

Personal and Professional Connections

Nominated by Gilbert William Bayes
For membership of the RSBS

Nominated by Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
1929 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Sources

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Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Members and Craftsmen
1946 (Probable)
p.58.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 4894 folio 98 page 23

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. VI SHERR-ZUL
1982
p. 336

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. 4.

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. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1944, to be Presented at the Forty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1945
March 1945
p. 3.

Citing this record

'Miss Margaret J. Wrightson', 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_1210680416, accessed 20 Mar 2023]

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