Winifred Turner
Other names: Mrs Winifred Paget
Born 13 March 1903
Died 30 October 1983
Active: 1924 - 1983
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Kensington, London. From the beginning of her career Turner was based in a studio adjacent to her father's at 44 Munster Road, Fulham, London, where she stayed until 1932, when she moved to Studio K, 416 Fulham Road. On the death of her father in 1940 she moved to Burwash Common, Etchingham, Sussex and two years later married the coin and medal designer, Thomas Humphrey Paget (1893-1974). She died in Sussex.
Wealth at death: £143,946 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 27 March 1984
Works
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Locations
Address Broom Cottage Westdown Lane Etchingham England | View on map
1940 (Circa) - 1962 (Circa)
Studio located at Studio, 44 Munster Road Fulham London SW6 England | View on map
1924 (Circa) - 1960 (Circa)
Occupied a studio adjacent to her father's, Not continuously at this address, between c.1933-40 she had a studio in Fulham Road
Studio located at Studio K 416 Fulham Road London SW6 England | View on map
1933 (Circa) - 1940 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1924 - 1962
Exhibited 30 times (9 times after 1951), 36 works in all, chiefly statuettes, many in terracotta
Won prize Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1939
Won the prize for her statue entitled 'Young Girl', that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1939.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
3 April 1930 - 1943
Became fellow in 1943.
Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1943 - 1969
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1942 - 1944
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1925 (Presumed) - 1926 (Presumed)
Awarded a first Landseer Prize of £30 and bronze medal for a model of a design, a first prize of £5 and silver medal for two models of a bust from the life, and a first prize of £30 and silver medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life, in 1925. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1925', (1926), pp. 36-37. In 1926, Turner won a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture. See 'Annual Report, 1926', (1927), p. 36.
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1934, 1941 and 1948.
Personal and Professional Connections
Daughter/son/child of Alfred Turner
Nominated by Ernest George Gillick
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Laura Knight
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Sydney Lee
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Alfred Turner
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
27 April 1934 - March 1941
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], 1934 and 1941, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by Algernon Maylow Talmage
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Terrick Williams
27 April 1934
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Charles March Gere
March 1941 - March 1948
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1941 and 1948, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by William McMillan
March 1941
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Rosamund Mary Beatrice Fletcher
1945 (Circa)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Wife/husband/spouse to Thomas Humphrey Paget
1942
Date of marriage.
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN351 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED14 SN160
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Helen Shiner, ‘Turner , Winifred (1903–1983)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64423, accessed 10 July 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.210.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.72.
Citing this record
'Winifred Turner', 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_1217000511, accessed 27 Sep 2023]
