Margaret Wrightson#Works
{{Short description|English artist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox artist
| name =
| honorific_suffix = Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
| birth_date = 1877
| birth_place = Norton, County Durham
| death_date = 1976
| nationality = British
}}
Margaret Justina Wrightson FRBS (1877–1976) was a British artist, renowned for her work in sculpture.{{Cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1210680416|title=Miss Margaret J. Wrightson - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951|website=sculpture.gla.ac.uk|access-date=2019-11-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/wrightson-margaret-justina|title=WRIGHTSON Margaret Justina 1877-1976 {{!}} Artist Biographies|website=www.artbiogs.co.uk|access-date=2019-11-07}}
Early life and education
Margaret Wrightson was born at Norton Hall and her father was the politician Sir Thomas Wrightson.{{Cite book|title=British women artists: A biographical dictionary of 1,000 women artists in the British decorative arts|author= Sara Gray|isbn=978-1911121633|location=United Kingdom|oclc=1085975377|year =2019}} She never married, and had a studio and home in Bedford Gardens in London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.armoury.co.uk/print/1824|title=Portrait Bust of Rear-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, K.C.V.O., C.B., R.N., 1910|website=www.armoury.co.uk|access-date=2019-11-07}} Wrightson's younger sister, Jocelyn Wrightson, was a painter, mainly working in watercolours.
Wrightson first studied under William Blake Richmond at the Royal College of Art before travelling to Paris to learn from Édouard Lantéri. From 1901, Wrightson exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. She also exhibited with the Society of Women Artists and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lissllewellyn.com/llfa__w_Artist-Margaret-Wrightson__A_427__r__.htm|title=Twentieth Century British Art Artist Margaret Wrightson by Margaret Wrightson {{!}} www.lissllewellyn.com|website=www.lissllewellyn.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}}
Career
Wrightson received many commissions throughout her long career. Theresa, Marchioness of Londonderry, commissioned Wrightson to create a female nude which was completed in 1912 and sold at Christies in 2014 for £68,500.{{Cite web|url=https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5827205|title=A GEORGE V BRONZE FEMALE NUDE, ENTITLED 'SPIRIT OF THE GARDEN', ON A BRONZE-MOUNTED SANDSTONE FOUNTAIN PEDESTAL, BY MARGARET WRIGHTSON, DATED 1912|website=www.christies.com|language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}} Wrightson created a sculpture of a woman titled ‘Mechanic, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps’ in 1917 that was later exhibited at the Royal Academy; the work had been suggested as a war memorial.{{Cite web|url=https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2014/liss-fine-art-unveil-major-wwi-tribute/|title=Liss Fine Art unveil major WWI tribute|website=www.antiquestradegazette.com|access-date=2019-11-07}} In 1925 she created a 'Viking Warrior' for Walter Runciman.{{Cite web|url=https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=75121|title=Wrightson, Margaret, Viking Warrior|website=vads.ac.uk|access-date=2019-11-06}} Wrightston's memorial of Admiral Earl Jellicoe stands in St Paul's Cathedral, London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/11827|title=Admiral Earl Jellicoe|website=Imperial War Museums|language=en|access-date=2019-11-07}} Other public works include the figure of Saint George on the Cramlington war memorial in Northumberland, created in 1922, and a figure memorialising Charles Lamb, situated in the Inner Temple gardens, London.
Several of Wrightson's works are in the collection of National Trust's Mount Stewart, including the popular bronze of Lady Mairi as a child.{{Cite web|url=https://ntmountstewartdiary.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/thumbs-up-for-mairi/|title=Thumbs Up for Mairi|last=ntmountstewart|date=2016-07-28|website=NT Mount Stewart - Volunteer's Garden Diary|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}} The work was restored in 2012 after originally being commissioned in 1925, and erected in 1928.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-18112544|title=Mount Stewart Lady Mairi fountain restored|last=Savage|first=Claire|date=2012-05-18|access-date=2019-11-06|language=en-GB}}
Wrightson became an Associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1929 and a Fellow in 1943.member file, Margaret Wrightson: archive of the Royal Society of Sculptors She was also a member of the Royal Academy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/margaret-wrightson|title=Margaret Wrightson {{!}} Artist {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts|website=www.royalacademy.org.uk|access-date=2019-11-07}}
Works
| class="wikitable"
!Title !Year !Medium !Gallery no. !Gallery !Location |
| [http://museumcollections.rcm.ac.uk/collection/Details/collect/847 Albert Sammons]
|1951–1952 | - |PPHC000370 |London, England |
| [http://museumcollections.rcm.ac.uk/collection/Details/collect/848 Albert Sammons]
|1951–1952 | - |PPHC000371 |London, England |
| [http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1655801 Lady Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE (1878-1959) as President of the Women's Legion, Motor Drivers]
|1920 |cast bronze & silver plated |1655801 |County Down, Northern Ireland |
| [http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1220135 Lady Helen Maglona Vane-Tempest-Stewart (1911-1986)]
|1930 |bronze |1220135 |County Down, Northern Ireland |
| [http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1221036 Lady Mairi Elizabeth Vane-Tempest-Stewart, later Viscountess Bury (1921-2009) as a Child]
|1921–1926 |Carrara marble |1221036 |County Down, Northern Ireland |
| [http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1221050 Lady Mairi Elizabeth Vane-Tempest-Stewart, later Viscountess Bury (1921-2009) as a Child, aged 4]
|1925–1926 |Carrara marble |1221050 |County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Lady Rose Keppel (b.1943), Attired in Highland Dress
|1954 |bronze |1220134 |County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Lord John Rushworth Jellicoe of Scapa (1859–1935)
|1910 |bronze |1983/1075/10 |National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth |England |
| Mechanic: Women's Auxiliary Army Corps{{cite web|last=|first=|date=2020|title=Liss Llewellyn|url=https://www.lissllewellyn.com/show-5352-w_Artist-Margaret-Wrightson__A_427__r.htm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=30 November 2020|website=Liss Llewellyn}}
|1917 |bronze |5352 | |England |
| Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe (1859–1935)
|1910 |bronze |1992/337/1 |National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth |England |
| [http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1221060 The Mairi Fountain: Lady Mairi Elizabeth Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscountess Bury (1921-2009)]
|1928 |bronze |1221060 |County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Viking Warrior
|1925 |bronze & sandstone | - |Northumberland County Council |England |
| Youth and ProgressRoyal Society of Sculptors, Royal Society of British Sculptors Annual Report of the Council for the year ending 31st December 1958 to be presented at the fifty-fifth Annual General Meeting 1959, annual reports file, archive of the Royal Society of Sculptors, p.19
|1958 |bronze and aluminium | | |Fountain House, Fenchurch Street, EC3 |
References
External links
- {{Art UK bio}}
- [http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/results?Maker=Margaret+Wrightson+(Stockton+on+Tees+1877+-+1976) Artworks by Margaret Wrightson in the National Trust collection]
- [http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6842 Information about Cramlington War Memorial], designed by Margaret Wrightson
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Category:20th-century British sculptors
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:Artists from County Durham
Category:English expatriates in France
Category:English women sculptors
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