Samuel Ferres Lynn
Other names: Ferris
Born 1836
Died 5 April 1876
Active: 1856 - 1876
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor, architectural sculptor
Born at Fethard, co. Wexford. Died at his brother's house, Crumlin Terrace, Belfast. Brother was William Henry Lynn, architect. Samuel lived almost entirely in London until 1873, when he returned to Belfast.
Works
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Designed Manufacture
1856 (Circa)
architect for Belfast Customs House
Designed Peace
1856 (Circa)
Designed Commerce
1856 (Circa)
Designed Industry
1856 (Circa)
Sketch for a Statue of the late Rev. Henry Cooke, DD, LLD
1872
Locations
Address 152 Buckingham Palace Road London | View on map
1872
Address 5 Albert Street Pimlico London | View on map
1856 (Circa) - 1871 (Circa)
Address used in RA Summer Exhibition catalogues between these dates.
Address Buckingham Palace Road London | View on map
1869 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The International Exhibition, London, 1862
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1872
'Sketch for a Statue of the late Rev. Henry Cooke, DD, LLD'
Exhibited at Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists (Ulster Museum), 1927
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1856 - 1875
Exhibited 17 times (usually 1 or 2 works per year).
Institutional and Business Connections
Received prize from Belfast School of Art
Prize for modelling.
Student at Belfast School of Art
1850 (Circa)
Student at Royal Academy Schools
1855
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1859 (Presumed) - 1867
Awarded a gold medal and book prize for 'Historical Sculpture' on the 10 December, 1859: see the Royal Academy 'Annual Report', (1861), p. 28. Lynn was also awarded a travelling scholarship in sculpture for two years from 1866, the first of which would be spent in England: see Royal Academy 'Annual Report', (1867), p. 38. In 1867, however, the Council declined Lynn's request to spend his second year of the scholarship in England, believing that this would 'set a bad precedent' for the award. Lynn thus resigned from the scholarship. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports', (1868), p. 17.
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by William Calder Marshall
22 June 1869
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconded by John Callcott Horsley
22 June 1869
For RA; unsuccessful.
Studio assistant to George MacD. Kane
Studio assistant to Patrick MacDowell
Studio assistant to John Henry Foley
1862 - 1863
Worked with Thomas Fitzpatrick
1856 (Circa)
On architectural carving for Belfast Customs House
Sources
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists 1927
1927
International exhibition 1862, official catalogue, fine art department
1862
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
L. H. Cust, ‘Lynn, Samuel Ferris (1836–1876)’, rev. Paula Murphy, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17269, accessed 29 July 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1869.
Citing this record
'Samuel Ferres Lynn', 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_1204190442, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
