Benjamin Sheppard
Born 1876
Died 1910
Active: 1905 - 1912
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, medallist
Suffered illness in 1908
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
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.
Citing this record
'Benjamin Sheppard', 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_1219945442, accessed 19 May 2022]