Early 20th Century Stoneware Birdbath By Ottillie Maclaren Wallace ( sold )
A stunning, fine and large scale, early 20th century fired stoneware centrepiece birdbath by Ottilie Maclaren Wallace, pupil and friend of Auguste Rodin. Triangular in form, with strigillated decoration to the sides and cornered by standing herons, their beaks pointing to the centre of the bowl, the base signed O Wallace. Generally in very good condition, some minor losses and nibbles.
Ottilie Maclaren Wallace
Ottilie Helen Maclaren, born on the 2nd August 1875, was the youngest daughter of Lord John Maclaren and his wife Ottilie Schwabe, a well to do family, living in Moray Place, Edinburgh, with a holiday home in the Highlands.
Ottilie started her studies under poet and sculptor James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, with ambitions to become a sculptor, she moved to Paris to further her education in the progressive schools of Art in Paris.
Joining the Académie Colarossi, Ottilie was taught by the award-winning sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert, also attending anatomy classes at the École des Beaux Arts, which was admitting women students for the first time.
In 1899, after a short time under the tutelage of Camille Claudel, Wallace became a pupil of Auguste Rodin. She worked with Rodin closely for the next two years, helping to organise his pavilion at the 1900 International World Fair in Paris.
Returning to Edinburgh in 1901, she rented a studio in George Street, becoming an Associate Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
In 1905 she married her fiancé, William Wallace, Scottish classical composer and writer, exhibiting under her married name from that point
.
Ottilie exhibited regularly, some of which are listed below, her work rarely comes to market, as most is held in private collections.
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers London
Royal Academy of Arts London
Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
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Ottilie Maclaren Wallace
Ottilie Helen Maclaren, born on the 2nd August 1875, was the youngest daughter of Lord John Maclaren and his wife Ottilie Schwabe, a well to do family, living in Moray Place, Edinburgh, with a holiday home in the Highlands.
Ottilie started her studies under poet and sculptor James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, with ambitions to become a sculptor, she moved to Paris to further her education in the progressive schools of Art in Paris.
Joining the Académie Colarossi, Ottilie was taught by the award-winning sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert, also attending anatomy classes at the École des Beaux Arts, which was admitting women students for the first time.
In 1899, after a short time under the tutelage of Camille Claudel, Wallace became a pupil of Auguste Rodin. She worked with Rodin closely for the next two years, helping to organise his pavilion at the 1900 International World Fair in Paris.
Returning to Edinburgh in 1901, she rented a studio in George Street, becoming an Associate Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
In 1905 she married her fiancé, William Wallace, Scottish classical composer and writer, exhibiting under her married name from that point
.
Ottilie exhibited regularly, some of which are listed below, her work rarely comes to market, as most is held in private collections.
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Engravers London
Royal Academy of Arts London
Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
Sold
H 26" x W 33" x D 29"
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