Mrs Emma Marie Cadwallader-Guild
Other names: Cadwalader-Guild (US spelling), also Mrs Guild
Born 27 August 1843
Died 1911 (Presumed)
Active: 1876 - 1911
Country of birth and death: United States
Sculptor, medallist
Born in Zanesville, Ohio. She was a self-taught sculptor. By 1876, when she exhibited a sketch in plaster at the Women's Pavilion of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, she had married and was living in Waltham, Massachusetts. Cadwallader-Guild is said to have attended anatomy lectures given by William Rimmer in Boston.
In the mid-1880s she moved to the UK, and is thought thereafter to have lived chiefly in Europe, only returning to the US to fulfill portrait commissions. Her preferred media were marble, granite and bronze. Cadwallader-Guild's known portrait commissions include G.F. Watts, President Lincoln, President McKinley and Andrew Carnegie. Between 1885-98 she exhibited portraits and ideal works at the Royal Academy in London. Cadwallader-Guild also showed work at the Glaspalast in Munich (from 1883); the Paris Salon (1894); Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (1891, 1893); and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904. There is some doubt about the date and location of her death but it is said to have been around 1911.
This record includes information submitted by Chris Mees, Editor of the online database, 'Arts: Search', and from 'Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary' compiled and edited by Mary S. Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt, Kent, Ohio, 2000. There are six works listed in the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS).
Locations
Studio located at The Avenue, 76 Fulham Road London | View on map
1885 (Circa) - 1888 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1885 - 1898
Exhibited 7 times, 1-2 works per year.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1891
1891
Endymion (cat. no. 1266, 'Yet Judge it better indeed / To seek in life, as now I know I sought / Some fair impossible love, which slays our life, / Some fair ideal raised too high for man', Epic of Hades, Lewis Morris, £5 5s., or in bronze £21); An Indian Rider (cat. no. 1268, plaster, bronzed, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
Henry Thode, Esq. (cat. no. 1157, not for sale); G. F. Watts, Esq., RA (cat. no. 1227, bronze bust, not for sale).
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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor who exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, from 1885 to 1898. Forrer notes that there are some unnamed portrait medallions by the artist (no dates are given). See vol. 7, (1923), p. 405.
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third, 1893 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1893
pp. 42-45.
Citing this record
'Mrs Emma Marie Cadwallader-Guild', 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_1240841455, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
