Miss Martha A. Onions
Born 1874 (Circa)
Active: 1895 - 1898
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Yardley, Worcester. The daughter of John C. Onions a 'director' (born c.1841 in Birmingham). The 'Grange', Martha's address in the mid-1890s, was the family home. They employed two servants in 1881.
Works
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Nancy: a Portrait
1895 (Presumed)
Portrait of my Father
1895 (Presumed)
Portrait of a Friend
1896 (Presumed)
Study of a Head
1896 (Presumed)
Portrait
1897 (Presumed)
The Artist's Sister
1898 (Presumed)
Locations
Address The Grange Tysley Birmingham | View on map
1881 (Circa) - 1897 (Circa)
This was her parent's address
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Sixty-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1895
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Thirty-First Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Royal Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1896
'Portrait of a Friend'
Exhibited at The Seventieth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1896
'Study of a Head'
Exhibited at The Thirty-Second Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1897
'Portrait'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1898
'The Artist's Sister'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
Multiple works
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. No. 813, pp. 76, 105
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 3083; Folio: 108; Page: 56; GSU roll: 1341735
Citing this record
'Miss Martha A. Onions', 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=msib4_1202813508, accessed 30 May 2023]