Edith Anna Bell
Born 1870 (Circa)
Active: 1896 - 1912
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor, modeller, medallist
Born in Dublin. She seems to have come to London in the mid-1890s and by 1901 was teaching modelling. Based on the Census Returns, Bell was still working for the LCC as a teacher in 1911. Between 1896 and 1912 she exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the New Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Liverpool Autumn Exhibition). It is not known whether she stayed in Britain or returned to Ireland.
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Locations
Address 3 Asburn Place Cromwell Road London England | View on map
1896 (Circa)
Address 52 Sterndale Road West Kensington London England | View on map
1899 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Address 21 Aynhoe Mansions Brook Green London England | View on map
1903 (Circa) - 1912 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1896 - 1912
Exhibited 6 times, nine works in all (portrait medallions and statuettes, in bronze where medium given)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1897
1897
Naomi (cat. no. 1307, silver medallion, not for sale). Artist listed as 'Miss Edith A. Bell'.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist 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 I, 1902 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a modeller and medallist. Exhibited at the First Exhibition of the Society of Medallists at the Dutch Gallery (c. 1898), and her medallion of 'Naomi' was illustrated in the 'Studio', July 1898: see Forrer, vol. 1, (1902), p. 67.
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Teacher of Modelling' overwritten 'School'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Teacher of Modelling LCC School of Art'
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh, 1897 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1897
pp. 44-47.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 48; Folio: 160; Page: 26
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN6533 RG78PN324 RD120 SD1 ED3 SN193
Citing this record
'Edith Anna Bell', 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_1238159604, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
