Sidney Nicholson Boyes
Born 1878 (Circa)
Active: 1901 - 1931
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Southampton, Hampshire. In 1902 he was awarded a free studentship by the Board of Education at South Kensington to study at Southampton School of Art for two years.
Works
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Panel - Music
1906 (Circa)
Portrait
1906 (Circa)
Aspiration
1908
Locations
Address 51 St. Swithun Street Aberdeen Scotland | View on map
1907 (Circa)
Address 7 Wentworth Studios Manresa Road London England | View on map
1910 - 1911
Address 63 Hafton Road Catford London SE England | View on map
1915 (Circa)
Address 1 Glenuce Road Blackheath London SE3 England | View on map
1921 (Circa) - 1929 (Circa)
Address 2 Cambridge Road Lee London SE2 England | View on map
1924 (Circa) - 1927 (Circa)
Address 'Beulah' Upton Road Bexleyheath England | View on map
1931 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-First, 1907
'Rev. Alexander Webster'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1906
'Panel - Music'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1908
'Aspiration'
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 3 April 1928
Name removed from list of members for 3 months in 1928 [reason unspecified]. Resigned on the 3 April, 1928.
Committee member of Royal Society of Arts
1919 (Presumed) - 1921
Served as a Member of the Council
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1908 - 1929
Name removed from list of members for 3 months in 1928 [reason unspecified].
Professor of sculpture at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen
1904
Head of Sculpture
Teacher of modeling at Central School of Arts and Crafts
September 1916 - June 1926
S. Boyes is listed as teacher of early evening classes in design and modelling in the department of Silversmiths' Work and Allied Crafts. From 1920 he is listed as teacher of the apprentice class for design and modelling in the School of Silversmiths Work and Allied Crafts. Last listed in the 1925-1926 prospectus.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by William Goscombe John
2 November 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [2 November 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Nominator of Onslow Ernest Whiting
1920 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Seconded by Edouard Lanteri
2 November 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [2 November 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist & Art Master' overwritten with 'Sculp', also listed as a worker and employed on own account
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist (Sculp)' working on own account at home
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Thirteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1908
September 1908
p. 54
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twelfth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1906
September 1906
p. 51
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 1053; Folio: 95; Page: 47
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN378 RG78PN12 RD4 SD1 ED5 SN547
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
1878; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; District: Southampton
County: Hampshire; Vol: 2c; p.24
Gray's School of Art Prospectus 1904-1905
1904
Head of Sculpture
Gray's School of Art Prospectus 1904-1905
1904
p. 1
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus and Time-Table of Session beginning 27 September 1920
27 September 1920
Unpaged timetable.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 November 1908.
The Builder, Vol LXXXIII, No. 3116, 25 October 1902
1902
p. 377
Citing this record
'Sidney Nicholson Boyes', 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_1220008501, accessed 29 Sep 2023]