Cecilia Webb

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Cecilia Webb
Born25 March 1888
Died1957 (aged 68–69)
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture

Cecilia Webb (25 March 1888 – 1957) was a British sculptor.

Biography[edit]

Webb was the daughter of the architect Morpeth Webb and was born at Stamford in Lincolnshire.[1] Throughout her career, Webb made sculptures in bronze, clay and plaster and, during the inter-war decades, was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London, with the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and at the Paris Salon.[1][2] A 1949 ceramic model of the Holy Family by Webb is in Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire.[1] For the later half of her life, Webb lived at Melton Mowbray, where she died in 1957.[2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
  2. ^ a b James A. Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553. OCLC 3914866.
  3. ^ "Miss Cecilia Webb". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951. 2011. Archived from the original on 3 February 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2021.