Fanny Byse
{{short description|English artist}}
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Fanny Byse née Lee (born 1849) was a British sculptor who specialised in creating heads and busts.
Biography
Byse was born in London in 1849 but did not begin practising sculpture until 1893 when she went to Geneva where she was taught by Jules Salmson, the director of the School of Industrial Arts there.{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}} Subsequently, she studied in Rome, Florence and Paris.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund|location=Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 3 Bulow-Cossin|isbn=2-7000-3073-7}} Byse produced numerous busts and head figures, which she mainly exhibited in Paris with the Salon des Artistes Francais but also at the Royal Academy in London during 1902.{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1254754254&search=Fanny|title=Mrs Fanny Byse|year=2011|access-date=30 October 2019|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028145715/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1254754254&search=Fanny|url-status=dead}} Her bronze bust of Alexandre Vinet is in the Wellcome Collection in London.{{cite web |author=|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j6en42mz |title=Bust of Alexandre Vinet by Mrs Fanny Byse|date=|access-date=2 October 2017|work=Wellcome Collection}}
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Category:19th-century English sculptors
Category:19th-century English women artists
Category:English women sculptors
Category:Sculptors from London
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