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Evelyn Beale
Born
Mary Evelyn Katharine Beale

(1870-07-18)18 July 1870
Died12 February 1944(1944-02-12) (aged 73)
NationalityScottish
Alma materGlasgow School of Art
Known forSculpture
AwardsLauder Prize, 1927

Evelyn Beale (18 July 1870 - 12 February 1944) was a Scottish sculptor.[1] She is known as part of the Glasgow Girls group of artists.[2]

Life[edit]

Mary Evelyn Katharine Beale was born in Gateshead, in the north of England, on 18 July 1870.[3]

Her father was the Reverend James Beale (born c. 1844), her mother Mary (born c. 1843).

By the 1881 census, the Beale family have crossed the border to Scotland and are in Duns, staying at the parsonage. Her father was known as the Reverend James Beale of Duns.[4]

Art[edit]

Beale studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1917 to 1920.[5]

She won the Lauder Prize in 1927 for 'delightful statuettes in coloured plaster'.[6]

Death[edit]

Evelyn Beale died in a Edinburgh nursing home on 12 February 1944.[7] Her usual address was at Ashfield in Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire.[8]

Works[edit]

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References[edit]


Category:1870 births Category:1944 deaths Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Category:Scottish women painters Category:Glasgow Society of Women Artists member