Edith Anna Bell Explained

Edith Anna Bell
Birth Date:1870
Birth Place:Dublin, Ireland
Death Place:Ireland
Nationality:Irish
Known For:Sculptor

Edith Anna Bell (1870–1929) was an Irish sculptor who specialised in creating medallions and portraits in relief.

Biography

Bell was born in Dublin and after taking art lessons in that city appears to have moved to England, sometime before 1896 when she is known to have been teaching modelling at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.[1] She is also known to have lived at Reading in Berkshire for a time.[1] Bell produced bronze figures and statuettes and also medallions in both bronze and silver.[1] Between 1896 and 1912 she exhibited ten works at the Royal Academy in London and also exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.[2] [3] The National Portrait Gallery in London holds a copper medallion portrait of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe by Bell.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Sara Gray. Dark River. 2019. British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts . 978 1 911121 63 3.
  2. Web site: University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII. Edith Anna Bell. 2011. 15 January 2020. Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. 14 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220314111438/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1238159604. dead.
  3. Book: James Mackay. Antique Collectors' Club. 1977. The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze .
  4. Web site: Edith Anna Bell . 15 January 2020. National Portrait Gallery.