Alexander Handyside Ritchie

Works

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Statue of Hugh Miller, Cromarty
1859 (Circa)

Locations

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Address Musselburgh | View on map
1831 (Circa) - 1870 (Circa)
Recorded in Musselburgh from 1831-1842 and then again from 1866 til his death.

Address 1 Mound Place Ramsay Lane Edinburgh | View on map
1857 (Circa) - 1862 (Circa)

Address 5 Coates Place Edinburgh | View on map
1864 (Circa)

Address 130 Pleasance Edinburgh | View on map
1864 (Circa)

Address given as 92 Princes Street Edinburgh | View on map
1843 (Circa) - 1854 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1830 - 1868
Exhibited 6 times (twice post-1851), an average of two works per year, all portrait busts apart from one work shown in 1857 ('A Scotch Lassie', statue in marble, cat. no. 1250).

Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1831 - 1926
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 35 times: 1831 (6 times), 1834 (3 works), 1836 (7 works), 1837 (3 works), 1838 (8 works), 1839 (7 works), 1840 ( works), 1841 (6 works), 1842 (2 works), 1843 (6 works), 1844 (3 works), 1845 (2 works), 1846 (3 works), 1847 (3 works), 1848 (3 works), 1849 (6 works), 1850 (2 works), 1851 (3 works), 1852 (2 works), 1854 (3 works), 1855 (8 works), 1857 (2 works), 1858 (2 works), 1859 (1 work), 1860 (1 work), 1862 (1 work), 1863 (4 works), 1864 (1 work), 1866 (3 works), 1867 (1 work), 1869 (2 works), 1871 (1 work), 1880 (1 work), 1916 (1 work) and 1926 (2 works)

Institutional and Business Connections

Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1946

Studied at The Edinburgh College of Art
1823 (Circa)
Studied art, architecture and anatomy at Edinburgh School of Arts under Samuel Joseph.

Studied at Trustees Academy of Arts
1824 (Circa) - 1826 (Circa)
Trustees' School of Design

Personal and Professional Connections

Assistant was John Ritchie

Brother/sibling of John Ritchie
His brother John Ritchie assisted in Alexanders' studio.

Taught John Rhind Snr
1840 (Circa)

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post-Office Directory 1850-1851
p. 286

Publications

Advertised in Edinburgh & Leith Post-Office Directory 1860-1861

Sources

Edinburgh & Leith Post-Office Directory 1850-1851
1850
p. 286

Edinburgh & Leith Post-Office Directory 1860-1861
1860
p. 400

Public Sculpture of Glasgow Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2002
p. 496

The Builder, Vol. 17, 25 June 1859
25 June 1859
p. 429

The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 6: Oakes to Rymsdyk
1906
p. 307

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 4, R-Z
1991
p.55