William Beattie
Born 1802 (Circa)
Died 31 December 1867
Active: 1829 - 1867
Country of birth: Scotland
Country of death: England
Sculptor, potter's modeller
Born in Edinburgh. His son William Challen Beattie (born 1839 in Marylebone, London) also became a sculptor and modeller.
Wealth at death: £200 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 19 February 1868
Works
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Group of Boys - Comedy
1855 (Presumed)
The Good Race - Parian Group
1855 (Presumed)
Bruce
1856
Wallace
1856
Sir William Wallace
1867
Locations
Address 53 Albion Place Hockley Birmingham England | View on map
1855 (Presumed)
Address Bootham Villa Stoke-on-Trent England | View on map
1850 (Circa)
Address Albion Place Stockley Birmingham England | View on map
1856 (Circa) - 1867 (Circa)
Address 8 Keir Street Edinburgh Scotland | View on map
1867 (Circa)
Address 100 Westbourne Park Road Paddington London England | View on map
1867
Place of death
Studio located at 18 Newman Street St Pancras London England | 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].
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
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851
2005
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
Citing this record
'William Beattie', 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=msib6_1203328550, accessed 29 Sep 2023]