Edwin Smyth
Born 1885 (Circa)
Active: 1920 - 1957
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, stone mason, monumental sculptor, mosaicist
Born in Sunderland, co. Durham. The son of William Smyth, ship joiner, born in Polworth, Berwickshire, c. 1847. Apprenticed as a stone mason around 1900, also studied at Sunderland School of Art c1902.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Locations
Address 2 Willmore Street Sunderland | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Also at this address: James Smyth, age 23, art teacher (working on own account)
Address 1 Dunbar Street Sunderland | View on map
1920 (Circa) - 1946 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1920
Multiple works
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1946 (Presumed)
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Stone Mason’s Apprentice'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Monumental Sculptor' and an employer
Sources
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Members and Craftsmen
1946 (Probable)
p.48.
British Phone Books, 1885-1984
2007
Year: 1952; Area: Lincoln, York, Northumberland; Page: 249; Details:
Edwin Smyth, Sculptor, Westlands, Sunderland; (Residence) 1 Dunbar Street, Sunderland (accessed 13 April 2010)
Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, July 1920
July 1920
Cat. No. 502, p. 31, 41
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 4709; Folio: 91; Page: 8
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN30164 RG78PN1740 RD555 SD1 ED21 SN394
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Apr-May-Jun 1885; Sunderland, Durham; Vol. 10a Page 574 (accessed 13 April 2010)
Citing this record
'Edwin Smyth', 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_1240312109, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
