Mary Gillick
Mary Gaskell Gillick
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Personal life
Born Mary Gaskell Tutin in Nottingham, she was one of three children born to Thomas Tutin and Elizabeth Gaskell (née Ardern), who wed on 25 March 1880 in Knutsford, Cheshire.
She was educated at the Nottingham School of Art (1898–1902) and at the Royal College of Art (1902–1904), where she studied under the sculptor Édouard Lantéri.[2]
After making her first exhibition at the
In 1905, she married sculptor Ernest Gillick.
Honours
She was appointed OBE in the 1953 Coronation Honours.
Effigy of Elizabeth II
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In 1952, Gillick's effigy design was selected from a field of seventeen to be used on general-circulation coinage for the new Queen Elizabeth, first issued in 1953. Gillick worked on the portrait between March and October 1952, with one sitting and close supervision by the Duke of Edinburgh.
Gillick's die master had insufficient relief, and the striking was too weak. Facial features and the dress folds in the shoulder disappeared. The problem was solved by re-cutting the dies. This remastering was performed by Cecil Thomas, an experienced medallist who had already crafted overseas currencies featuring Elizabeth II, but who had initially been turned down for the British coinage in preference to Gillick.[4]
A cameo of Gillick's effigy of the Queen has been used on
References
- ^ Mrs Mary Gaskell Gillick OBE in: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, accessed 12 December 2013
- ^ a b "Mary Gillick: Her Art in Your Pocket, exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute". Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "Nottingham Woman Sculptor". Vote. England. 24 December 1926. Retrieved 20 February 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Thomas, Cecil Walter (1885–1976), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sept 2004
- ^ Johnson, Sam (28 February 2023). "Final set of stamps with late Queen Elizabeth II's head issued by Royal Mail features Flying Scotsman train". The Scotsman. Edinburgh: National World. Archived from the original on 1 March 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
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