William Beattie

Works

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Group of Boys - Comedy
1855 (Presumed)

The Good Race - Parian Group
1855 (Presumed)

Bruce
1856

Wallace
1856

Daniel in the lion's den
1858

Sir William Wallace
1867

Locations

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Address 53 Albion Place Hockley Birmingham | View on map
1855 (Presumed)

Address Bootham Villa Stoke-on-Trent | View on map
1850 (Circa)

Address Albion Place Stockley Birmingham | View on map
1856 (Circa) - 1867 (Circa)

Address 8 Keir Street Edinburgh | View on map
1867 (Circa)

Address 100 Westbourne Park Road Paddington London | View on map
1867
Place of death

Studio located at 18 Newman Street St Pancras London | View on map
1863 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
Source describes this as a studio address

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row (Birmingham Society of Artists), 1855
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Thirtieth, 1856
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-First, 1867
'Sir William Wallace'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Thirty-Second, 1858
'Daniel in the lion's den'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1829 - 1864
Exhibited 10 times (3 times from 1851), 11 works in all (a mixture of portraits, embossed silver plate and medallions)

Institutional and Business Connections

Designed for Elkington & Co.
1851 (Circa)
'The Triumph of science and the industrial arts in the Great Exhibition'

Employed at Minton and Company
1850 (Circa) - 1860 (Circa)
Designed models for Parian production: see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 250.

Employed at Copeland (William Taylor Copeland)
1850 (Circa) - 1860 (Circa)
Designed models for Parian production: see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 250.

Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1850 (Circa) - 1864 (Circa)
Designed models for Parian production: see Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 250. Described in Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980) as a modeller for Wedgwood, employed at Etruria from 1856 to 1864 [summary].

Personal and Professional Connections

Mother/father/parent of William Challen Beattie

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors 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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a sculptor and chaser who exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, between 1829 and 1864. Forrer also notes that Beattie produced a portrait medallion of Lord Fecho in 1863. See vol. 7, (1923), p. 58.

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
'Sculptor & Sundries' also Thomas W Reeve (born c.1834) 'Moddeler's App[rentice]' (sic)

Sources

A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 85-7

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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1923
p. 58.

Birmingham Society of Artists. Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row, 1855
1855
p. 27.

Birmingham Society of Artists. Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row, 1855
1855
p. 27.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2004
HO107 piece 2006 folio 137 page 31

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: William Beattie Probate Date: 19 Feb 1868 Death Date: 31 Dec 1867 Death Place: Middlesex, England Registry: Principal Registry

The Dictionary of Minton
1990
p. 250.

The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 37.

The Edinburgh College of Art Report by the Board of Management for the session 1914 -1915
1915
p. 16

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. 152

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. 105