John Edward Hyett
Born 1867
Died 18 November 1936
Active: 1891 - 1936
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, wood and stone carver
Born in Haydon, Gloucestershire. He was the son of John Edward Hyett (c.1838-73), a gentleman farmer who left effects valued at about £1,500 on his death. The family was farming at Walton, Cardiff in the early 1870s but after John Edward senior's death, his widow, Ann and the children moved back to her native city of Cheltenham, where she became a lodging house keeper. John Edward was probably apprenticed to one of the local wood and stone carving businesses, such as Richard Boulton, H.H. Martyn or Alfred Emms. Certainly by 1891 he was working in Exeter as a wood and stone carver probably for Harry Hems' workshop as his lodgings were in the same street as the latter's home.
Around 1901, Hyett moved to London and began studying sculpture. He remained in London from this date and worked from St Oswald's Studios adjacent to Harold Brownsword and Herbert Cawood, among others. Hyett established himself as a portrait sculptor and showed regularly at the Royal Academy from 1904 until the year before his death.
Wealth at death: £234 2s. 1d.
Probate date: 22 December 1936
Works
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The Late Bishop Ellicott
1907 (Presumed)
£50
Locations
Address Walton Cardiff Wales | View on map
1871 (Circa)
Address 2 Hewlett Street Cheltenham England | View on map
1881 (Circa)
Address 1 Park Place St Sidwell's Exeter England | View on map
1891 (Circa)
Address 2 Vereker Road West Kensington London England | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1914 (Circa)
Address 16 Clarence Square Cheltenham England | View on map
1905 (Circa) - 1907 (Circa)
Address 4 St Oswald's Studios Sedlescombe Road London SW6 England | View on map
1916 (Circa) - 1936
Living here at the time of his death.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1904 - 1935
Exhibited 15 times, nineteen works in all (entirely portraits, chiefly in bronze)
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Annual Spring Exhibition for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, The Sixty-Second, 1907
1907
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1936
Died in 1936.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1915 - 1936
Nominated in 1915 by F. D. Wood and J. E. Stevenson. Died in 1936.
Personal and Professional Connections
Employee of Harry Hems
1891 (Circa)
Based on the proximity of Hyett's lodgings to Hems' home address.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Wood & Stone Carver Jr' [NB last letters probable abbreviation of Journeyman] worker
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Art Student (Sculpture)'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' working on own account
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
RG10 piece 2680 folio 62 page 19
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 2569 folio 30 page 11
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 1687 folio 143 page 17
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 63 folio 41 page 21
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN309 RG78PN10 RD3 SD4 ED6 SN269
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: John E Hyett
Birth Date: abt 1867
Date of Registration: Dec 1936
Age at Death: 69
Registration District: Kensington
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 139
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: John Edward Hyett
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1867
Registration District: Tewkesbury
Inferred County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 419
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: John Edward Hyett
Probate Date: 22 Dec 1936
Death Date: 18 Nov 1936
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: Lincoln
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 2, 1913-1922
1922 (Presumed)
19 April 1915
Citing this record
'John Edward Hyett', 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_1220272937, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
