Lady Muriel Wheeler
Other names: née Bourne
Born 1888
Died 1979
Active: 1919 - 1969
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, painter
Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Muriel met her future husband while they were studying in Wolverhampton. She had moved there with her family and her father was working as a Canal District Superintendant. She exhibited as a painter at the Royal Academy in 1919, then sculptures from 1925.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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The Firstborn
1927 (Presumed)
Cupid
1946 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 32 Gunter Grove Chelsea London | View on map
1925 - 1929
Address 21 Tregunter Road South Kensington London | View on map
1931 (Circa) - 1949
Address Garden Studio 2a Cathcart Road London | View on map
1950 - 1969
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1946
'Cupid'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, 1927
'The Firstborn'
Exhibited at Children in Sculpture (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1947
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1919 - 1969
Exhibited 40 times (22 times prior to 1951), she usually exhibited one or two works per year (all sculpture apart from a painting in 1919 under the name of Bourne).
Won prize Constance Fund, 1944-
1948
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
31 March 1942
Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1946 - 1948
Studied at Wolverhampton Municipal School of Art and Crafts
1911 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of Polly Hill Clarke
1946 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominator of Arthur John Fleischmann
1949
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Wife/husband/spouse of Charles Thomas Wheeler
24 August 1918
Sources
Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, Leeds City Art Gallery 1927
1927 (Presumed)
Cat. No. 326, pp. 23, 31
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN17024 RG78PN1051 RD369 SD4 ED15 SN94
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Registered between April-June 1888; District: Atcham; County: Montgomeryshire, Shropshire; Vol: 6a; Page: 676
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Sarah Crellin, ‘Wheeler, Sir Charles Thomas (1892–1974)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31824, accessed 8 Jan 2010]
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1946 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1946
p. 13.
Citing this record
'Lady Muriel Wheeler', 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_1210849203, accessed 10 Jun 2023]