Lilian Simpson
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M. Lilian Simpson (c.1871–1897) was a British sculptor.
Biography
During the 1890s, Simpson was a student at the National Art Training School, NATS, in London where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri.{{cite book|author=Susan Beattie|publisher=Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press|year=1983|title=The New Sculpture |ISBN= 0300033591}} Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were a number of other notable female sculptors including Margaret Giles, Ruby Levick, Esther Moore, Florence Steele and Lucy Gwendolen Williams.{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213037|title=Florence Harriet Steele|year=2011|accessdate=24 October 2020|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026234553/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213037|url-status=dead}} In 1894 Simpson won a gold medal and travelling scholarship in the National Art Competition for a silver low relief book cover. While still a student, Simpson had two pieces of work, including a bronze casket, shown at the Royal Academy in London and also exhibited with the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.In 1896 and 1897 her work was also included in exhibitions in Leeds and Liverpool.{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213800|title=Miss M L Simpson|year=2011|accessdate=24 October 2020|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027091920/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213800|url-status=dead}} In 1897 she used the travelling scholarship she had won in 1894 to travel and study in Italy. There she contracted typhoid fever and died later that year aged 26. The British Library now holds her 1894 book cover.{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000005312&ImageId=ImageId=42261&Copyright=BL|title=Database of Bookbindings|website=British Library|accessdate=24 October 2020|archive-date=27 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227190607/https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000005312&ImageId=ImageId=42261&Copyright=BL|url-status=dead}}
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Category:19th-century British women artists
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:Arts and Crafts movement artists