Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams
Other names: Mrs. Morris Meredith Williams, Mrs. Morris Meredith, Alice Williams
Born 1877 (Circa)
Died 3 March 1934
Active: 1903 - 1929
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, decorative painter, illustrator, stained glass designer
Born in Liverpool. She was the daughter of David Williams (born c.1833 in Denbigh, Denbighshire), registered physician surgeon. Her older sister Grace (born c.1869 in Liverpool) was a student of music and art c.1891 and her brother, Robert, became a doctor.
Alice moved to Edinburgh in 1906 or 1907 on her marriage to Morris Meredith Williams. She designed the Paisley War Memorial on the theme of 'the spirit of the crusaders' (a Crusader knight on horseback among Great War infantrymen). Williams also designed a war memorial in the form of a Reredos for St. James the Less Episcopal Church, Penicuik, Midlothian (dedicated in May 1921). Three years later (1924) she designed a plaque for the same church which was carved by Mr. Good of Reigo Street, Edinburgh. Alice and Morris moved to Devon in 1929.
This record includes information supplied to the project by Margaret Coull.
Works
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Modelled The Scottish National War Memorial: St Michael & architectural carving
1927 (Presumed)
Echo
1914
Modelled The Scottish National War Memorial: Multiple Exterior & Interior statues and panels
1927
Collaborated on The Scottish National War Memorial: Designs and cartoons for bronze frieze in shrine, etc.
1927
Locations
Address 2 Hardman Street Liverpool | View on map
1903
This was her brother Robert's home, who was a doctor
Address 27 Danube Street Edinburgh | View on map
1907 (Circa) - 1910 (Circa)
Address 38 Danube Street Edinburgh | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1928 (Circa)
Address 19 Circus Lane Edinburgh | View on map
1929 (Circa)
Address North Wyke North Tawton | View on map
1929 - 1934
Studio located at The Studio Cottage Peppard Henley-on-Thames | View on map
1916 (Circa) - 1918 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Ninth Exhibition, 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1903
'Adam and Eve'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1908
'An Angel'
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
Honeysuckle (cat. no. 1497, £4 4s.); Seated Mercury (cat. no. 1502, plaster, £8 8s.).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
Modelled Design for a Letter-Box (cat. no. 1344, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Adam and Eve (cat. no. 1407, sketch model, not for sale).
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1907 - 1929
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 20 times: 1907 (3 works), 1908 (1 work), 1909 (1 work), 1910 (1 work), 1911 (2 works), 1912 (3 works), 1913 (3 works), 1914 (3 works), 1915 (1 work), 1917 (1 work), 1918 (2 works), 1919 (1 work), 1920 (4 works), 1921 (3 works), 1922 (3 works), 1923 (2 works), 1924 (2 works), 1927 (1 work), 1928 (1 work) and 1929 (1 work)
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1913 - 1927
Exhibited 7 times altogether, 6 times post First World War, chiefly statuettes in bronze or carved in wood.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1928 - 1934
Died in 1934.
Collaborated with Donaldson & Burns
1927 (Circa)
Donaldson & Burns did stone carving for Meredith-Williams on the Scottish National War Memorial
Collaborated with William and Alexander Clow (W & A Clow)
1927 (Circa)
Alice Meredith Williams modelled the archangel Michael in the shrine which was carved in wood by the Clow brothers
Personal and Professional Connections
May be connected to Williams
It is quite possible that as an artist and resident of Liverpool, Alice Williams would have worked for the Della Robbia pottery
Nominated by Alexander Carrick
1928 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Charles John Allen
1928 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Wife/husband/spouse to Morris Meredith Williams
1906
Sources
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Eleventh Exhibition.
1916
p.56, p.78, p.144.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Ninth Exhibition.
1910
p.144.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1903
1903
Cat. No. 541, pp. 54, 86
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1908
1908
Cat. No. 489, pp. 44, 95
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 2942 folio 115 page 35
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers
1980
The Scottish Modern Arts Association; Thirtieth Annual Report for year 1936
1936
The Scottish National War Memorial, A Record and Appreciation
1928 (Circa)
Citing this record
'Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams', 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_1214305341, accessed 24 Mar 2023]
