# Lilian Simpson

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{{short description|British artist (c.1871–1897)}}
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'''M. Lilian Simpson''' (c.1871–1897) was a British sculptor.

==Biography==
During the 1890s, Simpson was a student at the [National Art Training School](/source/National_Art_Training_School), NATS, in London where she was taught by the sculptor [Édouard Lantéri](/source/%C3%89douard_Lant%C3%A9ri).<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](/source/Royal_College_of_Art) in 1896, were a number of other notable female sculptors including [Margaret Giles](/source/Margaret_Giles), [Ruby Levick](/source/Ruby_Levick), [Esther Moore](/source/Esther_Moore), [Florence Steele](/source/Florence_Steele) and [Lucy Gwendolen Williams](/source/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](/source/Royal_Academy) in London and also exhibited with the [Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society](/source/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](/source/typhoid_fever) and died later that year aged 26.<ref name="Beattie"/> The [British Library](/source/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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Category:19th-century British women artists
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:Arts and Crafts movement artists
Category:British women sculptors
Category:Deaths from typhoid fever

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