Kate Eadie

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kate Muriel Mason Eadie

RMS ARBSA
Born(1880-05-04)4 May 1880[1]
Died8 November 1945(1945-11-08) (aged 65)
OccupationJeweller
StyleArts and Crafts
SpouseSidney Meteyard

Kate Muriel Mason Eadie RMS ARBSA (4 May 1880 – 8 November 1945) was a British jeweller[2] and craftswoman[3] in Birmingham, working in the Arts and Crafts style.[2] In September 1940, she married the Birmingham Pre-Raphaelite painter Sidney Meteyard,[4][5] whom she met when she studied at Birmingham School of Art,[5] having modelled for many of his pictures,[4][5] including Jasmine.[6] They worked together on stained glass.[7]

A well as jewellery, she made larger items such as fire screens.[3]

In 1915, she was elected an associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists,[2] with whom she had exhibited a case of jewellery in 1908–1909, a processional cross in 1909, and another case of jewellery in 1911.[2]

At one time, she lived at The Malthouse, Evesham Road, Cookhill, Alcester, Warwickshire, with her sisters, [citation needed] and with Meteyard.

She died on 8 November 1945.[8][9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. ^ a b c d "Miss Kate M. Eadie". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  3. ^ a b "University of Birmingham". Antiques Roadshow. Series 23. Episode 12. 2000. BBC. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Kate Eadie Arts and Crafts Suffragette Necklace Amethyst Silver and Enamel". Collectors Weekly. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "An Arts and Crafts citrine necklace by Kate Eadie Unmarked". Bonhams. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Jasmine by Sidney Harold Meteyard". Retrieved 2 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Obituary (Sidney Harold Meteyard)". The Birmingham Post. 7 April 1947.
  8. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar 1946
  9. ^ "A silver Arts & Crafts moonstone pendant attributed to Kate Eadie, c.1910..." Sworders. Retrieved 2 February 2013.

External links[edit]