William George de Saulles
Active: 1880 - 1902
Medallist
Works
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Design for Reverse of a Florin
Medals and Plaquettes
1901 (Presumed)
Harvest
1901 (Presumed)
Impressions from the Seal and Counter-Seal
1901 (Presumed)
Case of Medals
1902 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Thirty-sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1901
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Seventy-Sixth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1902
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1902
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1904
Multiple works
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Case of Medals (cat. no. 1646, not for sale).
Speaker at Die Sinking (Art Workers Guild), 1902
Institutional and Business Connections
Apprenticed to John Wilcox
1880 (Circa) - 1884 (Circa)
De Saulles was apprenticed to Wilcox. See Forrer, vol. 6 (1916), p. 500.
Elected professional associate member of Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1901 - 1903
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as an Associate member in Spring 1901. Last lised as an Associate in Spring 1903; never elected to full membership of the Society.
Personal and Professional Connections
Apprenticed John Robert Pinches
1898 (Circa)
Dates uncertain but according to Pinches obituary in 'The Times' this was prior to studying at the Slade from 1899
Apprenticed to Joseph Moore Snr
William George de Saulles was an apprentice to Moore: see Forrer, vol. 1, (1902), p. 385, no dates are given. De Saulles worked for Moore from 1888 to 1892: see Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 141.
Employee of John Pinches Snr
1884 - 1888
See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 548.
Work positively reviewed by John Harvey Pinches
1903
Pinches wrote a review of De Saulles work for the 'Numismatic Chronicle' in 1903. See Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 549.
Worked with Margaret Winser
1904 (Circa)
Winser designed the reverse of a Medal in 1904 'by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with the approval of King Edward VII [...] The dies were engraved by G. W. De Saulles. Three medals are awarded annually.' See Forrer, vol. 6, (1916), pp. 513-514.
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 I, 1902 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as an 'engraver at the Royal Mint, London' by Forrer in 1902. Apprenticed to Joseph Moore, Birmingham, and then to 'Mr. Pinches'. Employed at the Mint by Sir E. Freemantle (then Deputy Master). Produced a number of portrait medallions including the Diamond Jubilee medal of the Queen (1897), and the Stokes Jubilee medal of Professor Gabriel Stokes, Oxford University (1899). De Saulles exhibited various medals in the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1899. Forrer also cites a quotation by M. H. Spielmann in the 'Magazine of Art' (February, 1900), who describes the artist as a 'talented craftsman, who is the engraver of the Royal Mint, has done much good work in the feeling of the French school, and is not only a modeller and artist of exceptional gifts, but the most expert man in England, perhaps, in the use of the graver' [summary]: see Forrer, vol. 1, (1902), p. 385.
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1902, p.6.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1902
1902
Cat. No. 379, p. 37, 60
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1904
1904
Cat. Nos. 429, 431, 432, 433, pp. 43, 44, 91
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1901
1901
pp. 3, 61
Citing this record
'William George de Saulles', 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_1209419866, accessed 03 Jun 2023]
