Lillian Maud Wade née Morris (1870– 4 December 1923) was a British sculptor.

Biography

Wade was born in the

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area of London and studied at the

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in South Kensington, between 1895 and 1897, where she was taught by Edouard Lanteri. Later in her career, Wade worked as a studio assistant to Lanteri. Between 1900 and 1916 she exhibited a number of statuettes, reliefs and portrait busts at the

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in London. These included her 1907 bronze statuette of a winged ''Victory'' figure. Wade developed this design, into a winged ''Peace'' figure, for a grave monument to members of the Moir family, at

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. The monument is recognised by

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with a Grade II listing. Wade's daughter, Evelyn, married the sculptor

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in 1925 and one of their daughters,

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also became a sculptor of considerable note.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wade, Lillian 1870 births 1923 deaths 20th-century British sculptors 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Royal College of Art English women sculptors People from Battersea Sculptors from London