Daniel Maclise RA
Born 25 January 1806
Died 25 April 1870
Active: 1829 - 1870
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Painter, illustrator, medal designer
Born in Cork, Ireland. Died at his home in Cheyne Walk, London. In 1859, he submitted a successful design, executed by Leonard Charles Wyon for The Turner Medal, commissioned by the Royal Academy. The medal relates to a bequest of £20,000 from Turner's estate and: "in conformity with the will of the late J. M. W. Turner" for "a medal to be called 'Turner's medal' equal in value to the Gold medal now given by the Royal Academy be awarded to the best landscape painting at the Biennial Distribution".
Wealth at death: £40,000 0s. 0d.
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1868 - 1870
Served as a Member of the Council. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1860 - 1862
Listed as a visitor to the Life School, and to the Painting School in 1860 and 1861: see Royal Academy 'Annual Report', (1861), pp. 26-27. Maclise is also listed as a visitor to the Life School in 1868: see the Royal Academy's 'Annual Report' for 1867 (published 1868), p. 22.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Leonard Cure Wyon
1851 (Presumed)
Maclise is listed in as the 'designer of a medal, engraved by L. C. Wyon, with portrait of the painter Turner, 1871 (Art Union series).' See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 525.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed in 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 III, 1907 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed in as the 'designer of a medal, engraved by L. C. Wyon, with portrait of the painter Turner, 1871 (Art Union series)', and of 'Heaton's Medal of the 1862 Exhibition, etc'. See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 525.
Sources
Royal Academy Collections: Works of Art, Books, Archives
2009
See entry for Daniel Maclise and 'The Turner Medal as executed: reverse and obverse'
Citing this record
'Daniel Maclise RA', 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_1238775731, accessed 03 Dec 2020]
