(James) Seamus Stoupe
Other names: James Stoupe
Born 27 October 1872
Died 20 May 1949
Active: 1896 - 1930
Country of birth and death: Northern Ireland
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Belfast. He was the son of Margaret Stoupe (born c.1845 in Belfast), shopkeeper. Seamus worked as a clerk in wholesale warehouse before becoming a teacher of modelling.
Wealth at death: £72 18s. 5d.
Probate date: 25 July 1949
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Miss A. C. Acheson
1906 (Circa)
Alderman James A. Doran, JP (1848-1934)
1921
Theseus seeking the Sword and Sandals
1905
Reconciliation
1905
The Pagan at Prayer
1905
Bean an Tighe
1906
Nora Emer - Daughter of the Artist
1908
Pog
1908 (Presumed)
A Portrait
1909 (Presumed)
Pottery Painter
1910
Eolas
1910
Plaster Bust, M. B.
1910 (Presumed)
Portrait: Miss M. Gaffilsin
1911
Bust of a Young Woman
1911 (Presumed)
John McBurney, Esq., Pres. of U.A.C.
1912
Portrait of the late Joe McCabe, Esq.
1913 (Presumed)
The Kiss. Plaster Model for Group
1913 (Presumed)
Padraic Gregory, Portrait
1914
Head of a Young Girl
1915
Bacchus
1915 (Presumed)
The Four Places of Sorrow
1915 (Presumed)
The Swan Dance
1916
The late William Grey, Esq., MRIA (Electro Medal)
1917
Thoughts
1917
Portrait Bust - Miss Annie Gallagher
1918
The Slave
1918
Edward Wilson, Esq.
1919
Relief Portrait of a Young Man
1919 (Presumed)
Portrait Bust : The Late W. W. Cleland, Esq.
1919 (Presumed)
Spring
1920
The Diver
1921 (Circa)
£10 10s.
Carved Competitive Design for Paisley War Memorial
1922 (Presumed)
Dr Nora E. Stoupe
1930 (Presumed)
Plaster Figure: Resting
1943 (Presumed)
Young China
1943 (Presumed)
Sheila
1943 (Presumed)
Plaster (Agnes)
1943 (Presumed)
Joy
1945 (Presumed)
Speed
1946 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 65 Haypark Avenue Ballynafeigh Belfast | View on map
1908
Address 55 Hanover Street Belfast | View on map
1901 - 1905
Address Annieville Holywood | View on map
1906
Address 25 Denmark Street Belfast | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Living here with his widowed mother and siblings
Address 82 Willow Bank Street Watford Belfast | View on map
1921 (Circa) - 1930 (Circa)
Address 127 Cavehill Road Belfast | View on map
1949
Living here at the time of his death
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1905
'Theseus seeking the Sword and Sandals'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1906
'Miss A. C. Acheson'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1908
'Nora Emer - Daughter of the Artist'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1909
'William Gray, Esq., MRIA'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1910
'Pottery Painter'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1911
'Portrait: Miss M. Gaffilsin'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1914
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1915
'Head of a Young Girl '
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1916
'The Swan Dance'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1917
'Thoughts'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1918
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1919
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1920
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1943
'Plaster (Agnes)'
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1911
1911
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1909
1909
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1906
1906
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1905
1905
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club Annual Exhibition, 1908
1908
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 10th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1915
1915
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 13th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1918
1918
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 14th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1919
1919
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 15th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1920
1920
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 16th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1921
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 17th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1922
1921
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1943
1943
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club Annual Exhibition of Oil and Water Colour Pictures & Craftwork, Municipal Art Gallery, 1945
1945
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 5th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1910
1910
Exhibited at Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists (Ulster Museum), 1927
Exhibited at Ulster Arts Club Annual Exhibition of Oil and Water Colour Pictures and Sculpture, 1946
1946
Exhibited at Ulster Arts Club 7th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1912
1912
Exhibited at Ulster Arts Club 8th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1913
1913
Exhibited at The Ulster Arts Club 6th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1911
1911
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1921
1921
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1930
1930
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected to membership of Royal Ulster Academy
1894
Elected to membership of Royal Ulster Academy
1894
President of Ulster Arts Club
1920 - 1921
Professor of modeling at Belfast School of Art
1904 - 1938
Taught Stone Carving and Plaster Casting
Received scholarship from Belfast School of Art
1896 (Circa) - 1900 (Presumed)
Free Studentship for years 1896-1900
Student at Belfast School of Art
1896 (Circa) - 1900 (Presumed)
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
Personal and Professional Connections
Studied under Edouard Lanteri
Taught Francis (Frank) Wiles
1905
Taught George Galway MacCann
1926 - 1929
While at Belfast College of Art
Taught Frederick Edward McWilliam
1926
Worked with George MacD. Kane
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census of Ireland 1901/1911
1901
'Clerk, Wholesale Warehouse'
Occupation given in Census of Ireland 1901/1911
1911
'Modelling Master Sculptor', languages spoken: English & Irish
Sources
A Catalogue of the Permanent Collection. Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1988 Ulster Museum publication
1988
pp. 97-98
A History of The Ulster Arts Club, 1971
1971
Belfast Government School of Art Report of The Board of Managers for The Year 1896, 1897
1897
p. 8
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists 1927
1927
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition in The Municipal Art Gallery, 1909
1909
p. 16
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition in The Municipal Art Gallery, 1911
1911
p. 15
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, Belfast Public Library, 1905
1905
p. 19-20
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, Belfast Public Library, 1905
1905
p. 20, no. 341
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, Belfast Public Library, 1906
1906
p. 15, no. 236
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 10th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1915
1915
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 13th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1918
1918
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 14th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1919
1919
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 15th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1920
1920
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 16th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1921
1921
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 17th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1922
1922
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 5th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1910
1910
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 6th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1911
1911
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 7th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1912
1912
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club 8th Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1913
1913
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club Annual Exhibition, 1908
1908
Catalogue of The Ulster Arts Club Annual Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, 1943
1943
Census of Ireland 1901/1911
2007
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Antrim/Court_Ward/Hanover_Street/934557/ AND http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Court/Denmark_Street/135279/ (accessed 12 June 2012)
Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century, 1996
1996
p. 483
Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century, 1996
1996
p. 483
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: James Stoupe
Probate Date: 25 Jul 1949
Death Date: 20 May 1949
Death Place: Belfast
Registry: Belfast
Irish Arts Review, Autumn 2008
2008
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Eighth Exhibition, 1917 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1917
p. 24 (301-2, 304)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Fifth Annual Exhibition, 1914 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1914
p. 37 (536)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Ninth Exhibition, 1918 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1918
p. 28 (350-51)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Seventh Exhibition, 1916 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1916
p. 36 (513)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1915 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1915
p. 33 (490)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninetieth Exhibition, 1919 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1919
p. 28 (375-76)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-First Exhibition, 1920 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1920
p. 28 (339)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Second Exhibition, 1921
1921
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and First Exhibition, 1930
1930
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1906 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1906
p. 29 (392)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1905 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1905
p. 32 (429, 430)
Citing this record
'(James) Seamus Stoupe', 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_1205252659, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
