Felix Martin Miller
Born 8 February 1819
Died 1908
Active: 1842 - 1897
Country of birth: France
Country of death: England
Sculptor, teacher
Born in Verdun, France. He was orphaned at an early age and brought up at the London Orphan School. Felix Martin studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1842 on the recommendation of Henry Weekes.
He was for many years a master of modelling at South Kensington (1859-1891). Miller modelled for both Copeland and Minton and also exhibited statues and busts at the Royal Academy. He was a close friend of John Henry Foley who was a great admirer of his work. Miller died in Tonbridge, Kent.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Childhood
1851
Brothers and Sisters in 'Comus'
1851
Titania
1851
Ariel
1851
Spirit of Calm
1851
The attendant spirit of Comus descending on a glancing star
1851
Lycidas
1851
Locations
Address 24 Bloomfield Terrace Pimlico Pimlico | View on map
1847 - 1861
Four previous and six later addresses given in Royal Academy exhibition catalogues.
Address 15 Bloomfield Terrace Pimlico London | View on map
1860 (Circa)
Address Drayton Terrace West Brompton London | View on map
1861 (Circa)
Address 2 Argyle Villas Hereford Square London | View on map
1862 (Circa) - 1863 (Circa)
Address 71 Winchester Terrace Cheyne Walk London | View on map
1864 (Circa) - 1869 (Circa)
Address 61 Pimlico Road London | View on map
1874 (Circa) - 1875 (Circa)
Address South Kensington London | View on map
1877 - 1878
Art Schools, South Kensington Museum
Address 16 Victoria Grove Fulham Road London | View on map
1880 (Circa)
Address 44 Devonshire Street Portland Place London | View on map
1886 (Circa) - 1887 (Circa)
Address 17 Clifford's Inn London EC | View on map
1897 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The International Exhibition, London, 1862
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1877
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1842 - 1880
Exhibited 32 times, around 90 works in all.
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of Institute of British Sculptors
1856 (Circa) - 1861 (Circa)
Student at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1877 (Circa) - 1878 (Circa)
Teacher of modeling at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1859 - 1891
Listed as Modelling Master. See 'List of Staff' in the 'Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1911), p. 60. In 1887-1888, Miller received £75 per annumn, to attend the school on five days and two evenings per week. See 'Staff List', (1887-1888).
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1365
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1803
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
'Sculptor’s apprentice'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
'Master at National Art Training School, S[outh] K[ensington] Museum, Sculpture and Painting'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Pensioner Civil Service'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 828-31
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1877
1877
Cat. No. 998, pp. 84, 100
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
2010
Class: HO107; Piece 732; Book: 11; Civil Parish: St George Hanover Square; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 36; Folio: 24; Page: 8; Line: 14; GSU roll: 438834
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 80; Folio: 15; Page: 24; Line: GSU roll: 1341018
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 1034; Folio 124; Page 9; GSU roll: 6096144
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 754; Folio: 84; Page: 21
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Felix Martin Miller
Born c1820
Death Registered Oct-Nov-Dec 1908
Tonbridge, Kent.
Vol: 2a Page: 447
International exhibition 1862, official catalogue, fine art department
1862
List of Members: Institute of British Sculptors (or Sculptor's Institute)
2008 (Circa)
Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
p. 1365
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
Rules of the Institute of Sculptors
1861
p. iv
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
Citing this record
'Felix Martin Miller', 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=msib7_1206635799, accessed 30 May 2023]
