Thomas Tyrrell FRBS
Born 1857 (Circa)
Died 7 May 1929
Active: 1881 - 1928
Country of birth: Ireland
Country of death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Dublin, St Andrew's (presume parish), Ireland. He studied at South London Technical Art School (SLTAS), Kennington and the Royal Academy Schools (1884). Afterwards he went back to SLTAS to teach and, in 1895, became assistant modelling instructor when William Silver Frith reduced his hours. The two instructors worked side by side for many years until Frith's death in 1924. Tyrrell lived another five years and died in Lambeth.
Wealth at death: £139 18s. 2d.
Probate date: 8 June 1929
Locations
Address 23 Methley Street Kennington London | View on map
1884 (Circa)
Address 4 Dalyell Road Stockwell London | View on map
1887 (Circa) - 1889 (Circa)
Address 124 Kennington Park Road London SE11 | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1929
Studio located at Kennington Studios Prince's Square London SE | View on map
1898 (Circa) - 1928 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1884 - 1928
Exhibited 21 times, twenty-two works in all (statuettes, groups, busts and reliefs in marble, terra cotta and bronze)
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
1907
Irish Fine Art Section: Pictures, Drawings, Engravings and Sculpture, by Irish Artists.
Sculpture, Gallery V:
'The Whisper' (plaster group), lent by the artist (the number '10' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £10); 'Sylvan Harmony' (plaster covered with copper), p. 116 (466), lent by the artist (the number '10' annotated alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £10).
Institutional and Business Connections
Invited to join Royal Society of British Sculptors
2 March 1905 - 3 April 1905
Amongst the suggested second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]: but name removed from list following further discussion at next meeting [3 April 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 1919 (Circa)
May have ended membership in 1923, date of his death [List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors].
Teacher of modeling at South London Technical School of Art (also Lambeth School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School)
1895 - 1924 (Circa)
Worked with William Silver Frith, the year of Tyrrell's retirement is not yet known.
Worked for Farmer and Brindley
1894 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Mother/father/parent of Norman Frederick Tyrrell
Mother/father/parent of Percy James Tyrrell
Mother/father/parent of Thomas Walter Tyrrell
Nominated by William Silver Frith
5 February 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconded by Thomas Stirling Lee
5 February 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor and Teacher of Modelling' at City and Guilds, also an employer
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' and listed as a worker
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 594; Folio: 19; Page: 32; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341136
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 53; Folio: 49; Page: 30
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN1993 RG78PN70 RD25 SD2 ED19 SN98
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Thomas Tyrrell
Probate Date: 8 Jun 1929
Death Date: 7 May 1929
Death Place: Surrey, England
Registry: London
International Exhibition, Dublin 1907, Fine Art Catalogue
1907
Irish Fine Art Section:
Pictures, Drawings, Engravings and Sculpture, by Irish Artists;
Sculpture [located in] Gallery V.
p. 116, no. 457:'The Whisper'.
Plaster Group.
Lent by the artist. The number '10' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps this object subsequently sold for 10-0-0.
p. 116, no. 466:'Sylvan Harmony'. Plaster covered with Copper.
Lent by the artist. *The number '10' annotated alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 10-0-0.
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905; 3 April 1905.
The New Sculpture
1983
pp. 26, 80, 83
Who was Who
December 2007
‘TYRRELL, Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U218428, accessed 27 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'Thomas Tyrrell FRBS', 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_1219853286, accessed 19 Sep 2021]
