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Ruby Levick
Born
Ruby Winifred Levick

11 September 1871[1]
Died31 March 1940(1940-03-31) (aged 68)
OccupationSculptor
Spouse
Gervase Bailey
(m. 1905⁠–⁠1940)
[2]
Levick's bust of John Dalton, now at Burlington House, in the collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Ruby Winifred Levick (11 September 1871 – 31 March 1940) was a Welsh sculptor and medallist who had many of her works exhibited at the Royal Academy.[3][4][5]

She was born in Llandaff, Glamorgan, the daughter of George Levick, a civil engineer from Blaina, and Jeannie Sowerby. Her younger brother was the explorer George Murray Levick.[5]

Exhibitions

Levick exhibited her work at:[5]

References

  1. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. ^ London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
  3. ^ "Miss Ruby Levick". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland, 1851–1951. University of Glasgow, History of Art and HATII, 2011.
  4. ^ T. Martin Wood. "A Decorative Sculptor: Miss Ruby Levick: (Mrs. Gervaise Bailey)". The Victorian Web.
  5. ^ a b c "Ruby Levick". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.