Sidney Nicholson Boyes

Works

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Panel - Music
1906 (Circa)

Portrait
1906 (Circa)

Rev. Alexander Webster
1907

Aspiration
1908

Locations

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Address 51 St. Swithun Street Aberdeen | View on map
1907 (Circa)

Address 7 Wentworth Studios Manresa Road London | View on map
1910 - 1911

Address 63 Hafton Road Catford London SE | View on map
1915 (Circa)

Address 1 Glenuce Road Blackheath London SE3 | View on map
1921 (Circa) - 1929 (Circa)

Address 2 Cambridge Road Lee London SE2 | View on map
1924 (Circa) - 1927 (Circa)

Address 'Beulah' Upton Road Bexleyheath | 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
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 1053; Folio: 95; Page: 47

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
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.

London County Council. Central School of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus & Time-Table for the Session 1916-1917
1916
p. 2.

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. I A-Car
1973
p. 179

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1919. To be Presented at the Sixteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1919
1919
p. 3.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1921. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1921
1921
p. 10

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1928, to be Presented at the Twenty-Fourth Ordinary General Meeting, 1929
March 1929
p. 4.

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

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. 170