Beatrice Angle (1859–1915) was a British sculptor who worked in terracotta and bronze.

Biography

Angle was born in

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in north London but grew up in neighbouring

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, one of the eleven children of Susan and John Angle, a job master. Angle specialised in terracotta and bronze busts and heads, but on occasion also produced porcelian pieces and more imaginative designs. At the

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of 1892 she showed a statuette entitled ''The Young Venitian''. Angle exhibited pieces at the

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in Liverpool and in London, showing some 16 works at the

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between 1885 and 1899 and two pieces at the Society of Women Artists in 1890. For some time Angle maintained a studio at Yeoman's Row in

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but later lived at

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in Kent.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Angle, Beatrice 1859 births 1915 deaths 19th-century English women artists 20th-century English women artists English women sculptors People from Hornsey Sculptors from London