Miss Susan Ruth Canton

Works

Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.

Danseuse

A Skirt Dance

Carnival Coquetry

A Sea Sprite

A West Wind

An East Wind

Feeding the Peacock

Masks of Comedy and Tragedy: Suggesting Irving and Toole

Masks of Drama and Farce: Suggesting Beerbohm Tree and Penley

Endymion
1881 (Presumed)

Spring
1881 (Presumed)

Gareth, and the Star of Evening
1881 (Presumed)

Locations

View all on map 

Address 40 St. Martin's Lane Charing Cross London | View on map
1880 (Circa) - 1888 (Circa)
Living here with her father for a number of years prior to 1880 - perhaps this was the address of his dental practice.

Address 84 Cornwall Road Bayswater London | View on map
1890 (Circa) - 1892 (Circa)

Address 16 John Street Bedford Row London WC | View on map
1895 (Circa)

Address 6 Beaumont Street Portland Place London W | View on map
1897 (Circa) - 1909 (Circa)

Address 2 Kensington Garden Square Kensington London | View on map
1911 (Circa)

Address 8 Kensington Garden Square Kensington London | View on map
1912 - 1917
This may be a mis-transcription for 2 Kensington Gardens Square.

Address 4 Garway Road Leinster Square London | View on map
1932
Living here at the time of her death.

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Colour (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1881
Multiple works

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'Danseuse'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1903
Multiple works

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1906
Multiple works

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'Feeding the Peacock'

Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Thirteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1895
'Masks of Comedy and Tragedy: Suggesting Irving and Toole'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1880 - 1917
Exhibited 17 times, twenty-two works in all (medals, statuettes, reliefs in bronze and terracotta up to 1897 and after a gap from 1908 showed reliefs, miniatures and (possibly) statuettes mostly in coloured wax)

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1895
1895
Serpentine Dancing (cat. no. 1302, £5 5s.); Skirt Dancing (cat. no. 1308, £5 5s.).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
A Nurse (cat. no. 1406, statuette, £7 7s.).

Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
A Sea Spirit (cat. no. 1471, wax medallion, £10 10s.); A Skirt Dance (cat. no. 1482, statuette, £8 8s.).

Institutional and Business Connections

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1882
Awarded a silver medal for a design of a medal. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1881', (1882), p. 38.

Descriptions of Practice

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Modeller Artist (?)' and overwritten 'Painter'

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist living on own means'

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist (Modeller)' employer London County Council

Sources

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1881, 1882 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1882
p. 38.

Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures in Oil and Water Colour (Nottingham Castle Museum) 1881 Nottingham Castle Museum Exhibition Catalogues
1881
p. 48.

Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth, 1895 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1895
pp. 47-50.

Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. No. 840, p. 79

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1903
1903
Cat. Nos. 342, 352, 401, pp. 37, 38, 43, 69

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1906
1906
Cat. Nos. 450, 451, pp. 42, 80

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. No. 243, pp. 25, 70

Catalogue of the Thirteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1895
1895
Cat. Nos. 634, 636, pp. 54, 57

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 328; Folio: 52; Page: 9; GSU roll: 1341071

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 102; Folio: 23; Page: 37

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN70 RG78PN3 RD1 SD3 ED2 SN234

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Susan R Canton Birth Date: abt 1848 Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1932 Age at Death: 84 Registration District: Paddington Inferred County: London Volume: 1a Page: 84

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Susan Ruth Canton Probate Date: 6 Dec 1932 Death Date: 24 Oct 1932 Death Place: Middlesex, England Registry: London, England

London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
2010
Name: Susan Ruth Canton Record Type: Baptism Baptism Date: 10 Apr 1849 Father's Name: Crueifix Canton Mother's Name: Susan Canton Parish or Poor Law Union: Westminster St Martin in the Fields Borough: Westminster Register Type: Bishop's Transcript

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
p. 266

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 1: Abbayne to Carrington
1905
p. 389