Stephen Leslie Rickard
Active: 1937 - 1950
Sculpture student
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Beneficiary of Leverhulme Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1932-1951
1948
In 1939 Rickard won the Edward Scott Travelling Studentship of £200, for a composition in sculpture. It is recorded in 1948, however, that as Rickard was unable to travel abroad, he was awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship of £200 in 1948, 'to assist him in commencing work as a professional sculptor' (see 'Annual Report, 1948', 1949, pp. 14, 16).
Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1939
Two years
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1950
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1937 (Presumed) - 1948 (Presumed)
Awarded a first Landseer Prize of £20 and silver medal for two models of busts from the life, and a first Landseer Prize of £30 and silver prize for a set of three models of a figure from the life, in 1937. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1937', (1938), p. 44. In 1938, he won a £10 Landseer Prize and silver medal for a model from the antique. See 'Annual Report, 1938', (1939), p. 42. The following year, he won a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture and the Edward Scott Travelling Studentship of £200, for a composition in sculpture. It is recorded in 1948, however, that as Rickard was unable to travel abroad, he was awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship of £200 in 1948, 'to assist him in commencing work as a professional sculptor'. See 'Annual Report, 1948', (1949), p. 14.
Citing this record
'Stephen Leslie Rickard', 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_1264173296, accessed 25 Nov 2020]
