Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Born 12 June 1824
Died 4 June 1887
Active: 1850 - 1883
Country of birth and death: France
Sculptor, teacher of modelling
Born at Anizy-le-Château. Initially trained as a goldsmith's apprentice. From 1840 Carrier-Belleuse was sponsored by Pierre-Jean David d'Angers to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. However he only stayed there briefly, moving instead to study decorative arts at the Petite École.
Between 1848 or 1850 and 1855, Carrier-Belleuse worked in England as a modelling instructor at Stoke School of Art and as a designer for Mintons and other companies including Coalbrookdale Ironworks and Graham & Jackson furniture makers.
On his return to Paris, Carrier-Belleuse exhibited regularly at the Salon whilst continuing to work for English companies. In the 1860s secured the patronage of Emperor Napoléon III and became immensely successful. He completed many public commissions and sold finished work directly through his studio and at auction. In December 1865 Carrier-Belleuse was appointed director of the state Manufacture de Sèvres. He died at Sèvres in 1887.
Works
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Undine
1893 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1893
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1873
Exhibited once, one work (statuette, terracotta, cat. no. 1486).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
L'Agriculture (cat. no. 1422, ceramique vase, not for sale).
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Minton and Company
1848 (Circa) - 1885 (Circa)
Atterbury and Batkin suggest that the artist moved to England in 1848 and began to work as a modeller at Minton. He continued to model for Minton, Wedgwood and Copeland after he returned to Paris in 1885: see 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 259.
Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1851 (Circa)
Modelled a figure 'Charity' for Wedgwood which was exhibited at the Great Exhibition, London, in 1951: see Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 76.
Sources
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 40.
The Dictionary of Minton
1990
p. 259.
The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 76.
Citing this record
'Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse', 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_1219071829, accessed 30 May 2023]
