Francesco Saverio Sortini
Born 1869 (Circa)
Died 1929
Active: 1901
Country of birth and death: Italy
Sculptor
Born and died in Nota, Sicily. Said to have exhibited widely in Europe and to have lived in England and Argentina. Whilst based in London he exhibited at the Royal Academy and may have made a silver centrepiece for a dining table which was acquired by George V.
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
'Mère Gregoire'
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Design for a Decorated Bell (cat. no. 1584, plaster, for sale in bronze, £500).
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1901
Exhibited once, two works (Design for a Decorated Bell, cat. no. 1693 and La Mère Gregoire, bust, bronze, cat. no. 1752)
Sources
Catalogue of the Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
1901
Cat. No. 274, pp. 48, 60
Citing this record
'Francesco Saverio Sortini', 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_1236182190, accessed 22 Sep 2023]
