Albert Bruce Joy ARHA, RHA
Other names: Albert Bruce-Joy, A.B. Joy
Born 21 August 1842
Died 22 July 1924
Active: 1868 - 1914
Country of birth: Ireland
Country of death: England
Sculptor, medallist
Born in Dublin, Ireland. He was the son of William Bruce Joy (6 September 1800-28 January 1885, born in Ireland, died in London) a physician and member of the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland and of Arminella (Vance, born c.1814, Ireland died 28 March 1888, London). Aged nine Albert was sent to a school run by Dr Becker, author of Becker's grammar in Offenbach, Germany, and was later a student at King's College, London, and in Paris. He trained in art at the South Kensington Schools, Royal Academy Schools and worked as an assistant to John Henry Foley. Bruce Joy died at Shottermill,near Haslemere, in Surrey.
This record includes information submitted by George H. Joy.
Works
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Portrait Bust, Marquis of Salisbury, KG
Portrait Bust, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP
Bust of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, VC, Commander-in-Chief
The Late Dean of Canterbury, Dr Tamer, FRS
Medallion Portrait - Rev. Dr Hawkins, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford
Medallion Portrait of Mrs Trevelyan
Medallion Portrait of Mrs D. McIver
Rough Sketch: Model of the Late John Platt, Esq., MP
Medallion Portrait of a Young Lady
Medallion Portrait of the Rev. Romney Robinson, FRS
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, VC
Major-General Sir Edward Hutton, KCMG
Cyril Joy, Son of George W. Joy, Esq.
Captain Thomas Cyril Bruce-Joy, 1st Devons
Countess Laure Przezdziexka
1870
Medallion Portrait of F. W. Burton, Esq.
1870
Sunshine
1870
Beatrice
1870
Prince Herman de Solms Braunfels - Medallion Portrait
1870
Sunshine
1870 (Presumed)
Beatrice
1870 (Presumed)
Lord Napier of Magdala
1870 (Presumed)
Prince Herman de Solms Braunfels
1870 (Presumed)
J. W. Burton, Esq.
1870 (Presumed)
Countess Laure
1870 (Presumed)
Prezezdzieçka
1870 (Presumed)
Bust of Professor Max Muller
1878
Medallion of Professor Malden
1878
The First Flight
1878
The First Flight
1880 (Presumed)
Prof. G. G. Stokes, MA, FRS
1880 (Presumed)
Viscountess Monck
1880 (Presumed)
Prince Herman de Sohns, Bramfels
1880 (Presumed)
Rev. Dr Lloyd, FRS
1 June 1880 - 1880 (Presumed)
Miss Evelyn Farrar
1880 (Presumed)
Miss Sibyl Tarrar
1880 (Presumed)
Mr Scott Siddons
1880 (Presumed)
Prince Hermon de Solono
1880 (Presumed)
J. Stow, Esq., town clerk of Bath
1880 (Presumed)
A Lady
1880 (Presumed)
Lord Napier
1880 (Presumed)
J. Stone, Esq.,
1881
Dr Harvey
1881 (Presumed)
Professor Max Muller
1881 (Presumed)
Mrs Scott Siddons
1881 (Presumed)
Prince Leopold
1881 (Presumed)
Viscountess March
1881 (Presumed)
HRH Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, KG
1882
The First Flight
1883 (Presumed)
Miss Mary Anderson
1886
Roschen von Taubenhayn
1886 (Presumed)
Medallion Portrait
1887
The Archbishop of Canterbury
1887 (Circa)
The Marquis of Salisbury, KG
1887 (Circa)
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP
1887 (Circa)
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
1888
The Marquis of Salisbury, KG
1892
Sir Erskine May (Lord Farnborough)
1892
William Spottiswoode, Esq.
1893
Buste du marquis de Salisbury
1894
Portrait, Buste
1894
The Honble Colonel Louden Snowden
1894
Bronze - Napoleon III
1896 (Presumed)
W. Bryant, Esq.
1896
Medallion Portrait
1897
The late Archbishop of Canterbury
1897
Field Marshall Earl Roberts, KG
1901
The late Lord Cairns
1903
Old Man's Head
1903
Medallion Portrait of Sir George Gabriel Stokes
1905
Medallion Portrait
1905 (Presumed)
Medallion of Sir G. Gabriel Stokes, FRS
1905 (Presumed)
F. M. Earl Roberts, VC
1905 (Presumed)
Portrait - Bust
1905 (Presumed)
Portrait Medallion of Dr Salmon, late Provost of Trinity College Dublin
1905 - 1906
commemorative, part of commission
The late Dean Farrar, FRS
1908
Alfred Russell Wallace, FRS, LLD
1908
Mary Anderson
1891 (Presumed) - 1930 (Presumed)
Locations
Address Blue ? Cottage London Hill Harrow England | View on map
1861
Address 7 Vicolo di San Nicolo Rome Italy | View on map
1867 (Circa)
Address 16 Pembridge Gardens Bayswater London England | View on map
1870 (Circa) - 1878 (Circa)
Address 32 Mountjoy Square Dublin Ireland | View on map
1872 - 1880
Address 44 Piccadilly London W England | View on map
1901 (Circa) - 1902 (Circa)
Address Chase Lodge Shottermill Haslemere England | View on map
December 1903 - December 1925
Address also used in 1899 [See Graves (1906) p. 291]
Studio located at 8 The Avenue Studios 76 Fulham Road London England | View on map
1880 (Circa) - 1881 (Circa)
Studio located at The Studio, Beaumont Road West Kensington London W England | View on map
1883 (Circa) - 1915 (Circa)
Studio located at The Studio, 26 Savile Row London England | View on map
1887 - 1889
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Entered competition Franco-British Exhibition of Science, Art and Industries (London), 1908
11 May 1908 (Circa)
Joy hoped that his works would be included in the selection for display. 'A letter from Mr. Bruce-Joy, asking for further consideration of his work which he desired to submit for the Franco-British Exhibition, was read. The Secretary was instructed to say that it was too late to re-open the matter' (11 May 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1).
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1870
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1878
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1881
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1882
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1886
'Miss Mary Anderson'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1887
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1888
'His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1889
'William Ferguson, Esq.'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1892
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1893
'William Spottiswoode, Esq.'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1894
'The Honble Colonel Louden Snowden'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1897
'The late Archbishop of Canterbury'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1899
'Medallion Portrait '
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1901
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1905
'Medallion Portrait of Sir George Gabriel Stokes'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1908
'Alfred Russell Wallace, FRS, LLD'
Exhibited at The Autumn Exhibition, at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham), 1883
'The First Flight'
Exhibited at The Autumn Exhibition, at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham), 1886
'Roschen von Taubenhayn'
Exhibited at The Seventy-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1905
Multiple works
Exhibited at Yorkshire Fine Art Society, Autumn Exhibition, 1880
Multiple works
Exhibited at National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, 1868
'Beatrice'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1889
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1901
'Portrait of a Lady'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1906
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1908
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1874
'Portrait of a Young Lady'
Exhibited at Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1875
'Rough Sketch: Model of the Late John Platt, Esq., MP'
Exhibited at Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1876
'Medallion Portrait of a Young Lady'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Third Autumn Exhibition, 1905
'Portrait Bust'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Eighteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1900
'Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, VC'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
'The Late Archbishop Benson'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition, 1907
Multiple works
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
Multiple works
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
Multiple works
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Twentieth Autumn Exhibition, 1902
'Cyril Joy, Son of George W. Joy, Esq.'
Exhibited at Twenty-Sixth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1887
'The Archbishop of Canterbury'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1887
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, 1905
1905
Exhibited at Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists (Ulster Museum), 1927
Exhibited at Drawings & Watercolours &c., Exhibition by The Belfast Architectural Association, 1896
1896
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1866 - 1934
Exhibited 47 times, between 1868-1893 typically showed 5 or 6 works per year, thereafter usually 1 or 2.
Exhibited at Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1870
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibited at Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (and Loan Museum of Works of Art), 1872
1872
Fine Arts, Sculpture.
p. 81, no. 47:'The Fairy Tale'.
Owned by the artist.
p. 82, no. 60:'Collection of Medallions:
1. Mrs. Scott Siddons
2. F.W. Burton, Esq., RHA
3. Prince Herman
4. W. Bruce Joy, Esq., MD
All above owned by the artist.
p. 82, no. 61:' Collection of Medallions':
1. A.P. Graves, Esq.
2. Countess Laura Przezdziecka
3. Rev. F.W. Farrar, B.D.
4. Joaquin Miller
5. Miss Sybil Farrar
All above owned by the artist.
p. 82, no. 62: 'Sunshine'
p. 82, no. 63: 'Beatrice'.
p. 83, no. 99: 'Lord Napier of Magdala'.
All three above owned by the artist.
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the third (Free Public Library and Museum, Liverpool), 1873
1873
The Rev. W. Clayton Green, MA (cat. no. 1029, marble, not for sale); W. Bruce Joy, Esq., MD (cat. no. 1035, bronzed bust, not for sale); A Roman Boy (cat. no. 1036, marble bust, £63); Dr Romney Robinson, FRS (cat. no. 1038, £10 10s.); Mrs Scott-Siddons (cat. no. 1039, £10 10s.); A. T. Squarey, Esq. (cat. no. 1040, not for sale); Mrs D. Maciver (cat. no. 1041, not for sale); H.I.M. Napoleon III (cat. no. 1042, £10 10s.); Lord Napier of Magdala (cat. no. 1046, £13 13s.); Joaquin Miller, Esq., Author of Songs of the Sierras, &c., &c. (cat. no. 1049, £10 10s.); Professor G. G. Stokes, MA, FRS (cat. no. 1050, £10 10s.); Mrs Thompson (cat. no. 1051, not for sale); Professor J. C. Adams, FRS (cat. no. 1052, £10 10s.); Mrs J. R. Leggatt (cat. no. 1053, not for sale); Beatrice (cat. no. 1055, plaster bust, £15 15s.).
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fourth (Free Public Library and Museum, Liverpool), 1874
1874
Portrait of a Young Lady (cat. no. 1095, plaster bust, £12 12s.); Miss Eveline Farrar (cat. no. 1102, medallion, not for sale); The Viscount Monck (cat. no. 1103, not for sale); Rev. Dr Lloyd, FRS (cat. no. 1104, medallion, not for sale); Portrait (cat. no. 1105, medallion, not for sale); Portrait of a Gentleman (cat. no. 1106, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fifth (Free Public Library and Museum, Liverpool), 1875
1875
The Fairy Tale (cat. no. 1076, terracotta, £189); Mrs Laurence R. Baily (cat. no. 1080, marble bust, not for sale); Medallion of a Young Lady (cat. no. 1086, plaster bronzed, not for sale); Forsaken (cat. no. 1092, terracotta, £1260 in marble); William Bryant, Esq., late of Surbiton (cat. no. 1099, plaster, not for sale); The Little Visitor (cat. no. 1109, £26 5s.); The late Emperor Napoleon III (cat. no. 1111, bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the seventh (Liverpool), 1877
1877
The First Flight (cat. no. 1292, terracotta, not for sale); Professor Max Muller (cat. no. 1296, terracotta, not for sale); W. Bruce Joy, Esq., MD (cat. no. 1309, marble, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1878
1878
The First Flight (cat. no. 1060, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibited at Art Exhibition opened at the Drill Hall, Merthyr Tydfil, 1880
27 May 1880 - 1880
Exhibited at Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1881
1881
Besides the listed objects, Joy also exhibited 'Two Small Medallions', exhibit no. 64/7-8.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the eighteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1888
1888
H. B. Ferguson, Esq., of Dundee (cat. no. 1395, bronze, not for sale); Frank Griffin, Esq., of California, USA (cat. no. 1397, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1890
1890
Marquis of Salisbury (cat. no. 1280, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts (Antwerp), 1894
1894
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1897
1897
The late Archbishop of Canterbury (cat. no. 1339, bronze bust, not for sale); Frank Griffin, Esq., of New York (cat. no. 1340, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
Frank Griffin, Esq. (cat. no. 1370, medallion portrait, not for sale); The Late Archbishop of Canterbury (cat. no. 1393, model of the large medallion on Dr Benson's Memorial in Rugby School Chapel, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Medallion Portrait (cat. no. 1463, silver, not for sale).
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1903
1903
£15 15s.
p. 24, no. 280: The late Lord Cairns.
p. 24, no. 281: Old Man's Head.
p. 26, 4 miniatures by Bruce Joy, amongst 35 listed works in miniature:
no. 28: A Portrait - Silver Medallion.
no. 29: Boy - Plaster Medallion.
no. 30: Portrait - Silver Medallion
no. 31: Portrait - Cyril Joy - Silver Plaque.
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
1907
Irish Fine Art Section: Pictures, Drawings, Engravings and Sculpture, by Irish Artists.
Sculpture, Gallery V: 'Hermoine' (plaster bust), p. 117 (475), lent by the artist (the number '5' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £5); 'Portrait Study' (plaster bust), p. 117 (476), lent by the artist (the number '5' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £5); 'The Late Marquis of Salisbury' (plaster bust), p. 117 (480), lent by the artist (the number '50' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £50); 'Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, KG' (bronze bust), p. 117 (483), lent by the artist (the number '50' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £50); 'Medallion Portrait of Sir George Gabriel Stokes', p. 118 (489), lent by the artist (the number '5' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £5); 'Medallion Portrait', p. 118 (490), lent by the artist (the number '5' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £5); 'Medallion Portrait', p. 118 (491), lent by the artist (the number '5' annotated in black ink alongside perhaps denotes that this object subsequently sold for £5).
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected to membership of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1891
ARHA in 1891, RHA in 1893.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 21 November 1910
Resigned in 1910 [see separate entry].
Member of Midland Arts Club
December 1910 - 1924
Honorary member.
President of Midland Arts Club
1891 - 1892
Resigned from Royal Society of British Sculptors
21 November 1910 (Circa)
Joy wrote to the Royal Society of British Sculptors expressing his intention of exhibiting at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition and offering to resign if appropriate; Society suggested that he should resign [21 November 1910, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Student at Royal Academy Schools
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Work declined for exhibition by Royal Society of British Sculptors
11 May 1908 (Circa)
'A letter from Mr. Bruce-Joy, asking for further consideration of his work which he desired to submit for the Franco-British Exhibition, was read. The Secretary was instructed to say that it was too late to re-open the matter' [11 May 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by John Callcott Horsley
15 October 1877
For RA; unsuccessful. Note written by RA secretary Walter Lamb (secretary 1913-1951) in margin of nominations book: 'Lapsed and cancelled Jan.1920'.
Seconded by William Powell Frith
15 December 1877
For RA; unsuccessful. Note written by RA secretary Walter Lamb (secretary 1913-1951) in margin of nominations book: 'Lapsed and cancelled Jan.1920'.
Studio assistant to John Henry Foley
1874
On Foley’s death in 1874 Joy inherited his employer's commission for statue of ‘Robert James Graves’ for the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin. 1877.
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 III, 1907 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist born in Dublin. Exhibited medals and portrait plaques at the Royal Academy in 1897, 1898, 1899, 1903 and 1904. See Forrer, vol. 3, (1907), p. 91.
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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer lists a number of additional portrait medals and medallions produced between 1905 and 1914. See vol. 7, (1923), p. 131.
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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer notes numerous medallic works that were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1868, 1871, 1872, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1881-1886, 1888, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904. See vol. 7, (1923), p. 491.
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 I, 1902 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a 'contemporary medallist' who was 'mentioned by M. F. Mazerolle in the 'Gazette numismatique française', 1898, p. 285, for some work he exhibited in the past year.' See Forrer, vol. 1, (1902), p. 168.
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' working on own account at home
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' working on own account
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Sculptor' and employer
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Student at Kings' College'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Sculptor Artist'
Sources
A Catalogue of the Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition 1881
1881 (Presumed)
p.77
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh, 1897 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1897
pp. 44-47.
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the eighteenth, 1888 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1888
pp. 54-56.
Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth, 1890 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1890
pp. 46-48.
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Irish Portraits by Ulster Artists 1927
1927
Catalogue of Drawings & Watercolours &c., Exhibition by The Belfast Architectural Association, 1896
1896
Catalogue of the Autumn Exhibition (Yorkshire Fine Art Society, Leeds) 1880
1880
Cat. Nos. 508, 509, 526, 528, 529, 537, pp. 54, 55, 56, ix
Catalogue of The Belfast Art Society Annual Exhibition, Belfast Public Library, 1905
1905
p. 19-20
Catalogue of the Eighteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1900
1900
Cat. No. 251, pp. 45, 48
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1874
1874
Cat. Nos. 669, 670, 677, 678, 692, 696, pp. 61, 62, 63, 64, 72
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1875
1875
Cat. Nos. 806, 819, 822, pp. 75, 76, 85
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1876
1876
Cat. Nos. 913, 918, 919, pp. 79, 80, 91
Catalogue of the First Spring Exhibition 1880
1880
Cat. Nos. 742, 750, 752, 754, 756, 758, pp. 64, 65, xiii
Catalogue of the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds 1868
1868
Cat. No. 636p, p. 205
Catalogue of the Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
1899
Cat. Nos. 242.1, 242.2, 248, pp. 42, 43, 44
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1889
1889
Cat. Nos. 134b, 134c, pp. 19, 101
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1901
1901
Cat. Nos. 194, 201, 429, pp. 23, 24, 41, 54
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1906
1906
Cat. No. 854, pp. 71, 80
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1908
1908
Cat. Nos. 758, 760, 770, pp. 61, 74
Catalogue of the Twentieth Autumn Exhibition (Manchester Art Gallery), 1902
1902
Cat. No. 236, pp. 41, 45
Catalogue of the Twenty-Fifth Autumn Exhibition, 1907
1907
Cat. No. 264, pp. 48, 53
Catalogue of the Twenty-First Autumn Exhibition, 1903
1903
Cat. No. 269, pp. 44, 50
Catalogue of the Twenty-Fourth Autumn Exhibition, 1906
1906
Cat. Nos. 272, 273, pp. 48, 49, 52
Catalogue of the Twenty-Third Autumn Exhibition, 1905
1905
Cat. Nos. 280, 287.1, 287.2, 288, pp. 46, 47, 51
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2005
Class: RG 9; Piece: 782; Folio: 70; Page: 16; GSU roll: 542700
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Series RG10
Piece number 36
Folio number 16
Page 23
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 28; Folio: 116; Page: 60; Line: ; GSU roll: 1341006.
Name given as "A. B. Joy"
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 619; Folio 14; Page 22; GSU roll: 6095729.
Name given as "Albert Bruce Joy"
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 616 folio 31 page 13
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN3135 RG78PN115 RD34 SD4 ED1 SN113
Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts
1894,
Catalogue Général Illustré
1894
Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition
1870
International Exhibition, Dublin 1907, Fine Art Catalogue
1907
Irish Fine Art Section:
Pictures, Drawings, Engravings and Sculpture, by Irish Artists;
Sculpture [located in] Gallery V.
p. 117, no. 475:'Hermoine'.
Plaster Bust.
Lent by the Artist. *The number '5' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 5-0-0.
p. 117, no. 476:'Portrait Study'. Plaster Bust.
Lent by the Artist. *The number '5' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 5-0-0.
p. 117, no. 480:'The Late Marquis of Salisbury'.
Plaster Bust.
Lent by the Artist.*The number '50' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 50-0-0.
p. 117, no. 483:'Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, K.G.'.
Bronze Bust.
Lent by the Artist.*The number '50' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 50-0-0.
p. 118, no. 489:'Medallion Portrait of Sir George Gabriel Stokes'.
Lent by the Artist.*The number '5' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 5-0-0.
p. 118, no. 490:'Medallion Portrait'.
Lent by the Artist.*The number '5' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 5-0-0.
p. 118, no. 491:'Medallion Portrait'.
Lent by the Artist.*The number '5' annotated in black ink alongside - perhaps denoting that this object subsequently sold for 5-0-0.
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1873 Walker Art Gallery
1873
pp. 39-40.
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1874 Walker Art Gallery
1874
pp. 42-43.
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1875 Walker Art Gallery
1875
pp. 41-42.
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1877 Walker Art Gallery
1877
pp. 69-71.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1911 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1911
p. 17.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1912 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1912
p. 17.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1913 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1913
p. 17.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1915 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1915
p. 17.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1918 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1918
p. 15.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1919 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1919
p. 18.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1922 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1922
p. 1.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1923 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1923
p. 15.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report 1924 Midland Arts Club Reports
December 1924
p. 2.
Occasional Proceedings of the Midland Arts Club, Birmingham, Annual Report, 1929 Midland Arts Club Reports
February 1930
p. 6.
Official Catalogue of the Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures and Loan Museum of Works of Art, 1872
1872
Fine Arts, Sculpture.
p. 81, no. 47:'The Fairy Tale'.
Owned by the artist.
p. 82, no. 60:'Collection of Medallions:
1. Mrs. Scott Siddons
2. F.W. Burton, Esq., RHA
3. Prince Herman
4. W. Bruce Joy, Esq., MD
All above owned by the artist.
p. 82, no. 61:' Collection of Medallions':
1. A.P. Graves, Esq.
2. Countess Laura Przezdziecka
3. Rev. F.W. Farrar, B.D.
4. Joaquin Miller
5. Miss Sybil Farrar
All above owned by the artist.
p. 82, no. 62: 'Sunshine'
p. 82, no. 63: 'Beatrice'.
p. 83, no. 99: 'Lord Napier of Magdala'.
All three above owned by the artist.
Official Catalogue, Art Exhibition opened at the Drill Hall, Merthyr Tydfil
1880
Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. I A-Car
1973
pp. 219-20 (under Bruce-Joy)
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1877.
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1903 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogue
1903
pp. 24, 26 (280, 281; miniatures nos 28-31, consisting of silver and plaster medallions and a silver plaque)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1905 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1905
p. 31 (415)
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
11 May 1908; 21 November 1910.
The Midland Arts Club, Annual Report 1910 Midland Arts Club Reports
1910
p. 15.
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 2, E-K. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1991 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1991
p. 308
Exhibited 1880,1881,1887,1889,1890
Who was Who
December 2007
‘BRUCE-JOY, Albert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U194074, accessed 17 June 2009]
Citing this record
'Albert Bruce Joy ARHA, RHA', 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=msib5_1205356326, accessed 22 Sep 2023]
