Sydney Lee RA, RE
Born 27 August 1866
Died 31 October 1949
Active: 1888 - 1949
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, etcher, wood engraver, medallist, wood carver
Born in Manchester. Studied at the Academy Colarossi, Paris.
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery, First Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, 1891
'Two Medallions'
Exhibited at Art Workers Guild, Third Exhibition, 1905
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
Medallion for Preservation of Life at Sea (cat. no. 1198, not for sale).
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
21 April 1922 - 11 February 1930
Elected RA in 1930.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
11 February 1930 - 1 January 1942
Then became Senior RA until his death in 1949. Lee's Diploma Work was entitled 'The Red Tower': see Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1930', (1931), p. 84.
Member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1931
Served as a Member of the Council from 1931. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1930', (1931), p. 43.
Student at Manchester School of Art
1891 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
14 December 1931
For RA.
Nominator of Thomas Mewburn Crook
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of James Alexander Stevenson
March 1933
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ernest George Gillick
March 1934
For RA.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
March 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Winifred Turner
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Edgar Allan Howes
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Alfred Frank Hardiman
March 1935
For RA.
Nominator of Edwin Whitney-Smith
March 1935
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of E. Roland Bevan
26 April 1937
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful. Possibly some later ammendment made to nomination [see Nominations for Associateship, c.1938-c.1961, p.34].
Nominator of (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of John Francis Kavanagh
22 April 1937
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Exhibited a design for a medallion at the Royal Academy, London, in 1888. Forrer notes that the artist was 'styled as a medallist' in the accompanying exhibition catalogue. See vol. 7, (1923), p. 543.
According to Forrer he was living in Prestwich, near Manchester in 1888, confirmed by Census Returns of 1891.
Class: RG12; Piece: 3272; Folio 58; Page 32; GSU roll: 6098382.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1905, p.9.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.170, p.267, p.292.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third, 1893 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1893
pp. 42-45.
Catalogue of the 75th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1934
1934
p. 1
Catalogue of the 76th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1935
1935
pp. 1, 59
Catalogue of the 79th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1938
1938
p. 3
Catalogue of the 80th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1939
1939
p. 1
Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1891
1891
Cat. No. 95, pp. 11, 125
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.18.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
pp.18-19, p.34, p.61, p.70, p.79, p.96, p.119, pp.143-144, pp.149-150, p.210, p.241.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.34.
Who was Who
December 2007
‘LEE, Sydney’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U228104, accessed 25 July 2009]
Citing this record
'Sydney Lee RA, RE', 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_1215704365, accessed 24 Mar 2023]
