Herbert Smithies
Born 1887 (Circa)
Active: 1901 - 1911
Country of birth and death: England
Art metal worker
Born in Middleton, Lancashire. He worked for his father, James Smithies, who ran a successful art metal work business in Wilmslow. However, little is known at present about Herbert's role or the duration of his employment.
This entry includes information submitted by Lynden Easterbrook.
Works
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Made Door Plate
Locations
Address Manchester Road Wilmslow | View on map
1901
Address The Cot Mount Pleasant Manchester | View on map
1911
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Arts & Crafts Exhibition, 1904
1904
£3
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with W. J. Pearce
1904
Collaborated with James Smithies
1904 (Circa)
£3
Daughter/son/child of James Smithies
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Art Metal Worker' also listed at this address were his father James Smithies 'Art Metal Craftsman' employer and Herbert's aunt (James Smithies' sister-in-law) Edith Allmark (born c.1874) 'Repoussée Metal Worker'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Art Metal Worker' worker
Sources
Catalogue of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition 1904
1904
Cat. Nos. 632, 1106, pp. 40, 65
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
RG13 piece 3319 folio 75 page 4
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN21513 RG78PN1282 RD445 SD1 ED4 SN125
Citing this record
'Herbert Smithies', 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_1209587592, accessed 24 Jan 2022]
