Mary Donington Explained

Mary Donington
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	Headley Down, Hampshire, England
Nationality:	British
Education:	Mary Datchelor School, Royal Academy of Music
Occupation:	musician, sculptor
Known For:	portrait figures in bronze, terracotta and plaster
Notable Works:	exhibited at the Royal Academy

Mary Winifred Sylvia Donington (1909–1987) was a British musician and sculptor.

Biography

Donington was born in London, was educated at the Mary Datchelor School in Camberwell and had a classical music education at the Royal Academy of Music.^[1] Although she spent a year, from 1945 to 1946, as a pupil of the sculptor Frank Dobson she was largely a self-taught artist.^[2]

During her career as a sculptor Donington created portrait figures in bronze, terracotta and plaster and exhibited at the Royal Academy, with the Women's International Art Club, the Society of Women Artists and the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers / Printmakers.^{[1] [3]} In 1948 she exhibited a bust of Rosemary Cowper at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.^[4]

Donington lived for many years at Headley Down in Hampshire and is thought to have died there in February 1987.^[1]

Further reading

• British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century by Alan Windsor, 2003, published by Ashgate,
• Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950 by Grant M. Waters, 1975, published by Eastbourne Fine Art

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. Book: James Mackay. Antique Collectors' Club. 1977. The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze . 0902028553.
3. Book: David Buckman. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L . 0-953260-95-X.
4. Web site: University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII. Mary Donington . 2011. 27 September 2021. Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951.