Édouard Lantéri (31 October 1848[1] – 22 December 1917) was a French-born British sculptor and medallist whose romantic French style of sculpting was seen as influential among exponents of New Sculpture. His name is also frequently spelled without accents as Edouard Lanteri and his first name sometimes given in its English form as Edward.
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Born | Auxerre, France | 31 October 1848
Died | 22 December 1917 London, England | (aged 69)
Education | François-Joseph Duret, Aimé Millet, École des Beaux-Arts (Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, Pierre-Jules Cavelier) |
Known for | Sculpture |
Movement | New Sculpture |
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Biography
editLantéri was born in Auxerre, France but later took British nationality. He studied art in the studios of François-Joseph Duret and Aimé Millet and at the school of fine arts under Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume and Pierre-Jules Cavelier.[2] A period of poverty led him to becoming a cabinetmaker, but in 1872, at the age of 24, on the recommendation of fellow sculptor Jules Dalou, he moved to London to work as a studio assistant to Joseph Edgar Boehm.[2] He stayed at the studio until 1890 and influenced Boehm's pupil Alfred Gilbert.
Lantéri's sculptures were mainly modelled in clay before being cast in bronze, though he would also work in stone. He produced portrait busts, statuettes and life size statues. As of 1880 he taught at the National Art Training School in South Kensington, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, and in 1900 became the College's first Professor of Modelling (1900–10); in this role he was involved with the architectural and decorative sculpture for Sir Aston Webb's Victoria & Albert Museum, London.[3]
Written works
editTowards the end of Lantéri's life he wrote a series of three books, explaining the art of human and animal composition in sculpture. First released as a collection of three books, they are now commonly found as two, with the animal sculpture separate from the human form. These books are still common required texts for many sculpture courses. The foreword to the original book was by friend and fellow sculptor Auguste Rodin who refers to Lantéri as "Dear Master"
- Modelling; A Guide for Teachers and Students (three volumes), London, Chapman and Hall (1911)
- Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure, Dover Publications Inc., new edition (1986)
- Modelling and Sculpting Animals, Dover Publications Inc., new edition (1986)
Notable pupils
edit- William Kellock Brown
- Mary Gaskell Gillick (nee Tutin)[4][circular reference]
- Benjamin Clemens
- Alexander Carrick
- Francis William Doyle-Jones
- Margaret Giles[5]
- Allen Hutchinson[6]
- Charles Sargeant Jagger[7][8]
- Gilbert Ledward
- Ruby Levick
- Walter Marsden[9]
- Esther Moore
- Oliver Sheppard
- Clare Sheridan
- Francis Shurrock[10]
- Lilian Simpson
- Florence Steele[11]
- Albert Toft
- Lillian Wade
- Reginald Fairfax Wells
- Charles Wheeler
- Lucy Gwendolen Williams
- Dorothy Stanton Wise
- Francis Derwent Wood[12]
References
edit- ^ Archives départementales de l'Yonne, birth certificate number 364, page 94/462.
- ^ a b University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Professor Edouard Lanteri". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Decorative sculpture on the exterior of the Victoria and Albert Museum". vam.ac.uk.
- ^ "Mary Gaskell Gillick life and career". Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Margaret Giles's life and career". Archived from the original on 2007-09-23. Retrieved 2007-08-30.
- ^ Dunn, Michael (2002). New Zealand Sculpture: A History. Auckland University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9781869402778.
- ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives". Yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
- ^ Black, Jonathan (2011). "The illusion of permanence: archaeology, imperialism and British public sculpture between the World Wars". In Bonaventura, Paul; Jones, Andrew (eds.). Sculpture and Archaeology. Ashgate Publishing. p. 61. ISBN 9780754658313.
- ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives". Yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
- ^ Dunn, Michael (2002). New Zealand Sculpture: A History. Auckland University Press. p. 55. ISBN 9781869402778.
- ^ University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Florence Harriet Steele". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives". Yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
External links
edit21 artworks by or after Édouard Lantéri at the Art UK site