Henry Stormonth Leifchild
Other names: Variant spellings in sources used include: 'Stormont', 'Stormouth' and 'Leitchfield'
Born 1823
Died 11 November 1884
Active: 1844 - 1884
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, carver, draughtsman, musician
Born in Moorgate, London. He was the son of William G. Leifchild, a surveyor. Trained at the Royal Academy schools from 1844 and then in Italy from 1848-51. Henry lived with his older brother, George Leifchild, in the 1850s who was a chemical colour manufacturer. He died while resident at 15 Kirkstall Road, Streatham Hill, London.
Wealth at death: £99 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 27 October 1886
Works
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Bust of the Rev. J. Baledwin Brown, BA
Bust of the Rev. J. Leifchild, DD
Bust of the Late G. Wilson, Esq., Chairman of the Anti-Corn Law League
Locations
Address 23 Newman Street Oxford Street London | View on map
1851 (Circa)
Address 111 Stanhope Street Hampstead Road London | View on map
1860 (Circa) - 1866 (Circa)
Also using 243 Stanhope Street as his address c.1866
Address 243 Stanhope Street Regent's Park London | View on map
1868 (Circa) - 1876 (Circa)
Prior to this address was 3 Albert Road, Regent's Park. In 1881 was at East View, Church Road, Upper Norwood.
Address 15 Kirkstall Road Streatham London | View on map
1882 (Circa) - 1884
Resident at this address when he died.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1875
'Bust of the Late G. Wilson, Esq., Chairman of the Anti-Corn Law League'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1844 - 1882
Exhibited 25 times (23 times from 1851), between one and two works per year, a mixture of portrait busts and ideal works.
Exhibited at Ninth Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures, also Loan and Permanent Collection of Pictures, Etc., including the Leifchild Gift of Sculpture (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1889
1889
The artist's works were exhibited posthumously. Five statues in plaster were displayed: 'Thought', p. 75 (638); 'Lot's Wife', p. 75 (639); 'Athene Repressing the Fury of Achilles', p. 76 (640); 'The Dawn', p. 77 (641); 'Andromeda Bound to the Rock', p. 77 (642). All of these works were also exhibited posthumously in the 'Exhibition of Pictures in Oil and Water Colours by Local Artists', Castle Gallery (May 1895).
Exhibited at Exhibition of Pictures in Oil and Water Colours, by Local Artists (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1895
May 1895
The artists' works were exhibited posthumously and given by Mrs H. S. Leifchild and family. Four statues in plaster were displayed: 'Athene Repressing the Fury of Achilles', 'The Dawn', 'Thought' and 'Lot's Wife' (p. 54). All of these works were also exhibited posthumously in the 'Ninth Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures', Castle Gallery, Nottingham (1889).
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of Institute of British Sculptors
Not a member in 1861, but possibly a member before or after this date
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Samuel Cousins
15 December 1866
Pupils included H.S. Wardell
1851 - 1852
Wardell was possibly a pupil or assistant of Leifchild's as he used the more established sculptor's address when exhibiting at the Royal Academy
Seconded by Thomas Faed
15 December 1866
For ARA; unsuccessful.
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Artist Sculptor'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 735-6
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1875
1875
Cat. No. 796, pp. 74, 86
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2005
HO107 piece 1486 folio 794 page 10
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 197; Folio: 99; Page: 8; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341044.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Henry Stormont Leifchild
Probate Date: 27 Oct 1886
Registry: Principal Registry
Death Date: 11 Nov 1884
Death Place: Surrey, England
List of Members: Institute of British Sculptors (or Sculptor's Institute)
2008 (Circa)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
L. H. Cust, ‘Leifchild, Henry Stormonth (1823–1884)’, rev. Christopher Whitehead, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16372, accessed 25 July 2009]
Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
p. 1365
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1866.
Rules of the Institute of Sculptors
1861
p. iv (confirms he was no a member in 1861)
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
Citing this record
'Henry Stormonth Leifchild', 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_1232458176, accessed 04 Jun 2023]
