Charles William Dyson-Smith
Born 1891
Died 1960
Active: 1921 - 1951
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Sculptor
Works
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The autumn dance
1927
Illusion
1927
Vesta
1927
W. Smithson-Broadhead, Esq.
1927 (Presumed)
Woman seated
1938
Youth
1938
Locations
Address No 5, The Studios 14a Cheyne Walk London SW3 | View on map
1927 - 1938
Address 5 Studio 143 Cheyne Row London | View on map
1927 (Circa) - 1928
Studio located at 12 Avenue Studios 76 Fulham Road London SW3 | View on map
1932 (Presumed) - 1940 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-First, 1927
'Vesta'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twelfth, 1938
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1931
'Illusion'
Exhibited at The Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1927-1928
31 October 1927 - 4 February 1928
Won prize Commission for a Statue of Henry Ford (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1946
1946
Awarded the commission.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1936 - 1938
Became fellow in 1938.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1949
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1943 - 1945
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1921
Awarded a first prize of £15 and silver medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life, and a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture, in 1921. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1921', (1922), p. 33.
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1932 and 1935.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Algernon Maylow Talmage
30 March 1932 (Presumed)
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by George Spencer Watson
30 March 1932 (Presumed)
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Alfred Turner
30 March 1932 (Presumed)
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Oliver Hall
1 April 1932 (Presumed)
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by William Reid Dick
30 March 1932 (Presumed) - March 1951 (Presumed)
Four nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], 1932-1951, all unsuccessful. Dates of nominations not specified as 'start date' or 'end date': March 1940, March 1949.
Nominated by William McMillan
26 April 1935 - April 1943
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1935 and 1943, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by George Harcourt
26 April 1935 (Presumed)
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Malcolm Osborne
26 April 1935 - March 1951
Four nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], 1935-1951, all unsuccessful. Date of nominations not specified as 'start date' or 'end date': March 1940, March 1949.
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
March 1949 - March 1951
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1949 and 1951, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by Stephen Frederick Gooden
March 1951
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominator of George Victor Haywood
1945 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-first Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1931
November 1931
p. 57
Catalogue for the Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1927
1927
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.190.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.50.
Citing this record
'Charles William Dyson-Smith', 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_1216999254, accessed 31 Mar 2023]