Léon Albert Vincent Solon

Works

Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Vide No. 60

Moths

Le Printemps

Le Coeur Libre

A Profile

Children of a Hundred Arts

Children of a Hundred Arts
1897 (Presumed)

Moths
1897 (Presumed)

After the Shower
1901 (Presumed)

Locations

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Address Bank House Stoke-on-Trent | View on map

Address Bank House Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1897 (Presumed)

Address Bank House Vine Street Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1899 (Presumed) - 1889 (Presumed)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Seventy-First Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1897
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Thirty-sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1901
Multiple works

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1898
'Moths'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1898 - 1905
Exhibited 5 times, on four occasions as a sculptor (1898-1903) and once as a painter (1905), his sculptures were all in relief or ceramic, exhibited one or two works per year.

Institutional and Business Connections

Employee of Minton and Company
1900 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)
Art Director [see Stuart 'People of the Potteries' (1985), p. 196. See also Haggar (1953), p. 49, who gives the dates 1900-1905 for the artists employment at Minton.]

Student at Hanley School of Art
1880 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
See Haggar (1953), p. 24.

Personal and Professional Connections

Daughter/son/child of Louis Marc Emmanuel Solon
Father (L. M. E. Solon) and son (L. V. Solon).

Granddaughter/grandson/grandchild of (Joseph) Léon F. Arnoux

Descriptions of Practice

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Potters Art Director (Earth)'

Sources

A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 24 and p. 49.

Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition.
1899
p.30, p.81.

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. Nos. 891, 892, 893, 894, pp. 85, 108

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1898
1898
Cat. No. 263, pp. 29, 74

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
RG11 piece 2728 folio 34 page 1

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 2608; Folio: 126; Page: 41

People and the Potteries. A Dictionary of Local Biography Volume 1
1985
p. 196.

Potters
2004
p. 28, fn. 4

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. VI SHERR-ZUL
1982
p. 40

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Seventy-first Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1897 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1897
p. 64.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1901
1901
p. 59.

The Dictionary of Minton
1990
p. 303.

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 7: Sacco to Tofano
1906
p. 209