Edward William Wyon

Works

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Britomart

Tazza: Hercules and the Hesperides

Designed Proposed Crimean Monument, Sheffield

Tazza
1851

Locations

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Address 28 Gloucester Street Queen's Square London England | View on map
1831 - 1833

Address 2 Nassau Street London England | View on map
1835

Address 35 London Street London England | View on map
1836 - 1842

Address 56 St John's Wood Terrace London NW England | View on map
1841

Address 48 Gower Street London England | View on map
1843 - 1846

Address 26 Charlotte Street Fitzroy Square London England | View on map
1847

Address 68 Mortimer Street London England | View on map
1848 - 1850

Address 48 Chenies Mews Beford Square London England | View on map
1851

Address 36 Stanhope Street Hampstead Road London England | View on map
1851

Address 19 Stanhope Street London England | View on map
1853 (Circa) - 1856 (Circa)

Address 13 Allsop Terrace London England | View on map
1857 (Circa) - 1876 (Circa)

Address 69 Mornington Road London England | View on map
1871 (Circa)

Address 2 Lodge Place Maylebone London England | View on map
1881 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The International Exhibition, London, 1862
'Britomart'

Exhibited at International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Dublin, 1865
p.110, no. 192. 'Britomartis' - plaster. p. 113, no. 241. ' Miranda' - plaster. p. 113, no. 242. 'The Rose of Sharon' - plaster. p. 113, no. 244. ' Briseis' - plaster. p. 113, no. 245. 'The Guardian Angel' - plaster [located in the East Corridor].

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
p.53

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1831 - 1876
Exhibited 39 times, ninety-four works in all (the majority were portraits, either busts or medals, but also some funerary monuments and ideal works).

Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851

Institutional and Business Connections

Commissioned by Art Union of London
On many occasions and in 1856 worked with Wyon to reproduce 'Stepping Stones' in parian (reissued in 1857 and 1858) and again in 1874 to reproduce 'Net Mending' in parian

Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1851 (Circa) - 1859 (Circa)
Modelled figures and busts: see Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 396.

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1829 (Circa)
See Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), p. 396.

Personal and Professional Connections

Sister/sibling of Benjamin Wyon
See Forrer, vol. 6, (1916), p. 572.

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VI, 1916 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer notes that Wyon 'distinguished himself as a sculptor'. He was the son of Thomas Wyon (senior, 1767-1830), and the brother of Thomas Wyon (junior, 1792-1817), and Benjamin Wyon (1802-1858). See Forrer, vol. 6, (1916), p. 586.

Listed under Sculptors Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer notes that 'although the artist was eminently a Sculptor, the Catalogues of the Royal Academy describe a number of medallic portraits by him'. These are dated from between 1833 and 1847. See vol. 8, (1930), pp. 295-296.

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Sculptor'

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor'

Occupation given in London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
1841
'Sculptor'

Sources

Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VI, 1916 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1916
p. 586.

Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1930
pp. 295-296.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2005
Class: HO107; Piece: 1493; Folio: 268; Page: 7; GSU roll: 87822-87823

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 202; Folio: 19; Page: 31; GSU roll: 824591

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 160; Folio: 85; Page: 7; GSU roll: 1341035

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Edward William Wyon Estimated birth year: abt 1811 Registration Year: 1885 Registration Quarter: Jan-Feb-Mar Age at Death: 74 Registration district: Barnet Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District Inferred County: Middlesex Volume: 3a Page: 138

England, Select Births and Christening Records, 1538-1975
2014
Name: Edward William Wyon Gender: Male Birth Date: 12 Jan 1811 Baptism Date: 27 Feb 1811 Baptism Place: Christ Church,Southwark,London,England Father: Thomas Wyon Mother: Ann FHL Film Number: 307685, 307687

Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851 Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
1851

International exhibition 1862, official catalogue, fine art department
1862

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
Name: Edward William Wyon Gender: Male Record Type: Marriage Marriage Date: 7 Dec 1841 Marriage Place: Christ Church, St Marylebone, Westminster, England Father: Thomas Wyon Spouse: Elizabeth Riddel Register Type: Parish Register London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Church of England Parish Registers, 1754-1931; Reference Number: p89/ctc/065

Official Catalogue of Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures 1865
1865
p.110, no. 192. 'Britomartis' - plaster. p. 113, no. 241. ' Miranda' - plaster. p. 113, no. 242. 'The Rose of Sharon' - plaster. p. 113, no. 244. ' Briseis' - plaster. p. 113, no. 245. 'The Guardian Angel' - plaster [located in the East Corridor].

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Philip Attwood, ‘Wyon family (per. c.1760–1962)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64499, accessed 5 Feb 2010]

The Builder, Vol. IX, No. 413, 4 January 1851
4 January 1851
p. 7

The Builder, Vol. XV, 10 October 1857
10 October 1857
p. 581

The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 396.

The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
1855
p.53

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 8: Toft to Zwecker
1906
pp. 389-91

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 8: Toft to Zwecker
1906
pp. 289-91