{{short description|British artist (c.1871–1897)}} {{Use British English|date=October 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} '''M. Lilian Simpson''' (c.1871–1897) was a British sculptor.

==Biography== During the 1890s, Simpson was a student at the National Art Training School, NATS, in London where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri.<ref name="Beattie">{{cite book|author=Susan Beattie|publisher=Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press|year=1983|title=The New Sculpture |ISBN= 0300033591}}</ref> Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were a number of other notable female sculptors including Margaret Giles, Ruby Levick, Esther Moore, Florence Steele and Lucy Gwendolen Williams.<ref name=MappingFHS>{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213037|title=Florence Harriet Steele|year=2011|accessdate=24 October 2020|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=26 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026234553/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213037|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1894 Simpson won a gold medal and travelling scholarship in the National Art Competition for a silver low relief book cover.<ref name="Beattie"/> While still a student, Simpson had two pieces of work, including a bronze casket, shown at the Royal Academy in London and also exhibited with the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.<ref name="Beattie"/>In 1896 and 1897 her work was also included in exhibitions in Leeds and Liverpool.<ref>{{cite web|author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213800|title=Miss M L Simpson|year=2011|accessdate=24 October 2020|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027091920/https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1208213800|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1897 she used the travelling scholarship she had won in 1894 to travel and study in Italy.<ref name="Beattie"/> There she contracted typhoid fever and died later that year aged 26.<ref name="Beattie"/> The British Library now holds her 1894 book cover.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000005312&ImageId=ImageId=42261&Copyright=BL|title=Database of Bookbindings|website=British Library|accessdate=24 October 2020|archive-date=27 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227190607/https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/LargeImage.aspx?RecordId=020-000005312&ImageId=ImageId=42261&Copyright=BL|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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