William Grant Stevenson ARSA, RSA
Born 1849
Died 1919
Active: 1868 - 1916
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, painter
Studied at Edinburgh College of Art and RSA Life Class, as Sculptor. Executed large statues, portrait busts, statuettes of animal life. Younger brother of DW Stevenson, RSA. Died, Edinburgh.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Sir William Wallace
1885
Dominic Sampson
1886
Bringing Home the Deer
1886 (Circa)
Peter Peebles
1892
Caleb Balderstone
1892
£5
Dandie Dinmont
1893 (Circa)
Model of Twenty-Point Stag Killed by Lord Burton
1894 (Circa)
True till Death
1901
Vidette
1901
Lost
1902 (Circa)
Baillie Nicol Jarvie
1906
Startled
1908 (Circa)
Locations
Address 8 Osborne Terrace Edinburgh | View on map
1901 (Presumed)
Address 4 St. James' Square Edinburgh | View on map
1868 (Circa)
Address 10 St Anthony Place Edinburgh | View on map
1869 (Circa) - 1872 (Circa)
Recorded at another address in 1870
Address Castle Terrace Edinburgh | View on map
1870 (Circa)
Address 2 Castle Terrace Edinburgh | View on map
1873 (Circa) - 1877 (Circa)
Address Albert Institute Studios Shandwick Place Edinburgh | View on map
1878 (Circa) - 1885 (Circa)
Address 1 Dalry Road Edinburgh | View on map
1885 (Circa)
Address Haymarket Terrace Edinburgh | View on map
1886 (Circa)
p. 44
Address 13 Dalry Road Edinburgh | View on map
1890 (Circa)
p. 601
Address 34 Haymarket Terrace Edinburgh | View on map
1892 (Circa) - 1899 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at First Exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, 1892
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1885
'Sir William Wallace'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1886
'Bringing Home the Deer'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1893
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1894
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1902
'Lost'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1906
'Andromeda'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1908
'Startled'
Exhibited at Royal Academy of Art: The Exhibition of Scottish Art, 1939
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1868 - 1943
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 54 times
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fifth (Free Public Library and Museum, Liverpool), 1875
1875
The Pet Lamb (cat. no. 1094, terracotta group, £30).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1895
1895
Startled (cat. no. 1325, bronze, £45).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Taught The Royal Scottish Academy Life School
1887 - 1901
'Visitor to'
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1885
p. xxxii
Elected RSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1896
p. xxxii
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1906 - 1907
Was eleected member but, failing to respond to notice of such from the society, was removed from list of members [18 February 1907, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].
Studied at The Edinburgh College of Art
1903 (Circa) - 1905 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of Archibald Macfarlane Shannan
1900
RSA
Nominator of Louis Reid Deuchars
1914
Robert Gemmell Hutchison RSA (1855-1936) proposed Deuchars for ARSA in 1914 and William Grant Stevenson seconded the nomination. [Information from the RSA Archives submitted by Louise Boreham.]
Sister/sibling of David Watson Stevenson
1842
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1900-1901
p. 743
Listed under Sculptors
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Eleventh Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1902
October 1902
p. 48
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Seventh Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1894
October 1894
p. 45
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Thirteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1908
September 1908
p. 54
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twelfth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1906
September 1906
p. 50
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fifth, 1895 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1895
pp. 47-50.
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Scottish Art 1939, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1939
p.xl
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1900-1901
May 1900
p. 743
Listed under Sculptors
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1875 Walker Art Gallery
1875
pp. 41-42.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
18 February 1907.
The Royal Scottish Academy Life School Registers 1853- 1901
p. 36
Citing this record
'William Grant Stevenson ARSA, RSA', 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_1208876016, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
