Mary Donington

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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1909}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1987|1909}}

| death_place = Headley Down, Hampshire, England

| nationality = British

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| education = Mary Datchelor School,
Royal Academy of Music

| occupation = musician, sculptor

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| known_for = portrait figures in bronze, terracotta and plaster

| notable_works = exhibited at the Royal Academy

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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.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}}

Although she spent a year, from 1945 to 1946, as a pupil of the sculptor Frank Dobson she was largely a self-taught artist.{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}}

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.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}} In 1948 she exhibited a bust of Rosemary Cowper at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.{{cite web |author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1227614752 |title=Mary Donington |year=2011|access-date=27 September 2021|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951}}

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

Mary Donington

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