Francis (Frank) Wiles
Born 7 January 1889
Died 20 September 1956
Active: 1915 - 1951
Country of birth and death: Northern Ireland
Sculptor
Born Larne, Co. Antrim. He was the son of David Wiles (born c.1852, Co. Antrim), clerk to the Petty Sessions in Lairne. Frank's mother, Margaret (born c.1867, Co. Armagh) was a woodcarver. He studied at Belfast School of Art with Seamus Stoupe and then Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin under Oliver Sheppard. He died at the Smiley Hospital, Larne.
Wealth at death: £480 16s. 10d.
Probate date: 27 February 1957
Works
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Bpon (Greek Alphabet)
1921 (Presumed) - 192 (Presumed)
£40
Master Muir Mackean of Larne
1921 (Presumed) - 192 (Presumed)
Portrait Bust
1911
Vanity (in Bronze)
1916
The Wine Carrier
1917
Sydney Carton (in Plaster)
1917
My Sister Dorothy
1921 (Presumed)
Statuette
1922 (Presumed)
Mrs Wood
1922 (Presumed)
Dorothy
1922 (Presumed)
Portrait Relief, George W. Kinkead, Esq.
1923 (Presumed)
Master Norman Kinkead
1923 (Presumed)
Mr Justice Meredith
1925 (Presumed)
An Old Lady
1925 (Presumed)
Leslie Pielou
1926 (Presumed)
Doris Stopford White
1926 (Presumed)
Sanchia Pielou
1926 (Presumed)
Sketch Design for a War Memorial
1927 (Presumed)
Lion
1927 (Presumed)
Silent O'Moyle
1928 (Presumed)
William Millar Lawson
1929 (Presumed)
Margaret Elizabeth Lawson
1929 (Presumed)
The Butterfly
1929 (Presumed)
£65
Michael
1929
Cupid
1929
Head of an Old Lady
1930 (Presumed)
Love Downcast
1930 (Presumed)
Master James Herbert Long O'Brien
1931 (Presumed)
Faun Garden Ornament, completed with Pedestal in Cement
1931
Deidre
1932 (Presumed)
£70
Mrs Margaret Hunter
1932 (Presumed)
Pysche
1935 (Presumed)
£15
Mrs Jerkatis
1935 (Presumed)
William Henry Brown
1936
Spring
1937
Sea-Nymph
1938
The Poppy Girl
1944
Childhood
1946
Study of a Turkey
1946
Study of a Boy
1947
Mrs S. C. Chen, Principal, Trinity College, Foochow, China
1949
Margaret
1950
Glynn Bridge
1951
An Irish Turkey
1951 (Presumed)
£50
Locations
Address Crannie Cairncastle Road Larne | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1956
Address 73 Lower Baggot Street Dublin | View on map
1921 (Circa) - 1927 (Circa)
Wiles did not live at this address between 1925/1926. He recorded this as his address again from 1927
Address Kildare Street Dublin | View on map
1925 - 1926
Used the Metropolitan School of Art address in these years, afterwards returned to 73 Lower Baggot Street
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Chinese Bronzes (Art Workers Guild), 1921
'Bpon (Greek Alphabet)'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1911
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1917
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1918
Multiple works
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, 1951
1951
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, 1950
1950
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1949
1949
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1944
1944
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1938
1938
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1937
1937
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1936
1936
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1935
1935
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1931
1931
Exhibited at 48th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1929
1929
Exhibited at 47th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1928
1928
Exhibited at 46th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1927
1927
Exhibited at 42nd Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1923
1923
Exhibited at 40th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1921
1921
Exhibited at 49th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1930
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1946
1946
Exhibited at Exhibition of The Ulster Academy of Arts, 1947
1947
Exhibited at 45th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1926
1926
Exhibited at 44th Annual Exhibition of The Belfast Art Society, 1925
1925
Exhibited at Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists (Ulster Museum), 1927
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1921
1921
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1922
1922
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1923
1923
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1924
1924
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1925
1925
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1926
1926
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1927
1927
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1929
1929
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1930
1930
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1931
1931
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1932
1932
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1935
1935
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1951
23 April 1951 - 2 June 1951
Institutional and Business Connections
Received prize from Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
1915
Winner of Gold Medal at MSA, Dublin, 1913-1914, for 'Modelled figure from the Nude'.
Also received a commendation: 'Modelled figure from the Nude', , subject 19e.
Received scholarship from Belfast School of Art
1909
W. H. Patterson Scholarship
Received scholarship from Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
1911
Student at Belfast School of Art
1905 - 1909
Student at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
1911 - 1915
Personal and Professional Connections
Studied under (James) Seamus Stoupe
1905
Studied under Oliver Sheppard
1911 - 1915
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census of Ireland 1901/1911
1911
'Art Student' also staying with the family was Philip Reid Paul (born c.1888 in Scotland) 'Art Teacher - Drawing'.
Sources
A Catalogue of the Permanent Collection. Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1988 Ulster Museum publication
1988
pp. 101-104
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists 1927
1927
Census of Ireland 1901/1911
2007
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/Larne/Cairncastle_Road/196179/ (accessed 13 June 2012)
Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century, 1996
1996
p. 538
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Francis Wiles
Probate Date: 27 Feb 1957
Death Date: 20 Sep 1956
Death Place: Antrim, Ireland
Registry: Belfast
Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin - Prize List and Awards, 1915 Annual Distribution of Prizes
1915
p. 12, winner of Gold Medal at MSA, Dublin, 1913-1914, for 'Modelled figure from the Nude', subject 19e.
p. 13, also received a commendation, 'Modelled figure from the Nude', subject 19e.
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Eighth Exhibition, 1917 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1917
p. 23 (291-92, 297)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Ninth Exhibition, 1918 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1918
p. 28 (347)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Seventh Exhibition, 1916 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1916
p. 36 (512)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Eighth Exhibition, 1927
1927
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Fifth Exhibition, 1924
1924
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Fourth Exhibition, 1923
1923
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Second Exhibition, 1921
1921
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Seventh Exhibition, 1926
1926
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Sixth Exhibition, 1925
1925
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Third Exhibition, 1922
1922
p.23
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and First Exhibition, 1930
1930
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Second Exhibition, 1931
1931
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Sixth Exhibition, 1935
1935
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Third Exhibition, 1932
1932
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Twenty-Second Exhibition, 1951
1951
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundredth Exhibition, 1929
1929
Citing this record
'Francis (Frank) Wiles', 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_1216218880, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
