Ella Rose Curtois (23 March 1860 – 23 March 1944)[1] was a British artist, known for her sculptures in marble and terracotta.
Child Playing at Marbles by Curtois
Curtois was born at Branston in Lincolnshire.[2] Her parents were Atwill Curtois, rector of the village, and his wife Anne Henrietta, who had eleven children between them.[1][2] Ella Rose Curtois created sculpture pieces in both marble and terracotta, usually of genre subjects and portraits.[2][3]
Between 1885 and 1897 she exhibited several works at the Royal Academy in London and at the Paris Salon.[2][3] Ella Rose Curtois and her father were responsible for carving the choir screen in Branston church, most of which was destroyed in a fire on Christmas Day 1962.[4] However, several of her carvings were saved and remounted in the casing of a new church organ.[5]
Curtois lived most of her life in London and in Paris where she died during World War II. Her will left a few small legacies to a friend, but the residue went to the Usher Gallery in Lincoln and was used to erect a new gallery which was opened there in 1959.[6] One of her sisters, Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois was a painter and artist of some note.[7]
1234Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN978-1-911121-63-3.
12James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN0902028553.
↑"Rectors over two centuries". The Children's Newspaper. 14 October 1933. p.12.
