Benjamin Sheppard

Institutional and Business Connections

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 1910
Wrote to Society in 1908 to ask that his membership be suspended, since he 'had to go abroad for his health, [and] was quite unable to practice his profession, or pay his subscription'. Suspension approved [2 March 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].

Personal and Professional Connections

Nominated by William Silver Frith
15 January 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

Seconded by Thomas Stirling Lee
15 January 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.

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 V, 1912 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist living in London. Exhibited a portrait plaquette and a portrait medal in the Royal Academy Exhibitions of 1906 and 1907. See Forrer, vol. 5, (1912), p. 494.

Sources

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 V, 1912 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1912
p. 494.

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
15 January 1906; 2 March 1908.