Miss Emily Addis Fawcett
Born 3 April 1852
Died 13 June 1947
Active: 1883 - 1908
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Kensington, London. She was the daughter of Walter Thomas Fawcett, stock broker who died leaving effects valued at under £90,000 in 1877. Fawcett exhibited at the Society of Women Artists in 1895,1896 and 1908 as well as the Salon des Artists Français.
Works
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Resting
1855
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1885
Multiple works
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1885
1885
Study of a Negro's Head (cat. no. 1427, bronzed plaster, £5 5s.); Dorcas (cat. no. 1456, terracotta, £6 6s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the nineteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1889
1889
Defiance (cat. no. 1544, £7 7s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1890
1890
Study of a Child's Head (cat. no. 1315, plaster medallion, £6 6s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1891
1891
La Belle Orqueilleuse (cat. no. 1228, plaster, bronzed, £10 10s.).
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' working on own account
Sources
Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth, 1885 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1885
pp. 85-87.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 19; Folio: 178; Page: 21
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Emily Addis Fawcett
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1852
Registration district: Kensington
Inferred County: Greater London, London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 24
London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
2010
Name: Emily Addis Fawcett
Record Type: Baptism
Estimated Birth Date: abt 1852
Baptism Date: 23 Jun 1852
Father's Name: Frances Fawcett
Mother's Name: Walter Thomas Fawcett
Parish or Poor Law Union: Paddington St James
Borough: Westminster
Citing this record
'Miss Emily Addis Fawcett', 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=msib3_1204127721, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
