Sir William Reid Dick
(1878-1961), SculptorSitter in 31 portraits
Artist of 4 portraits
Celebrated for his monumental, stylised sculptures and portraits characterised by simplified form, Scottish-born Dick trained at the Glasgow School of Art and Lambeth Art School. From 1908, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, becoming an Associate in 1921 and a Royal Academician in 1928. Notable commissions included the Kitchener memorial chapel in St Paul's Cathedral (1922-5) and bas-reliefs for the department store Selfridges, London (1928). He was President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors (1933-8) and knighted by King George V in 1935. He was Sculptor in Ordinary for Scotland to King George VI from 1938 until his death in 1961.
Explore the portrait of Joseph Duveen, Baron Duveen by Sir William Reid Dick (NPG 3062) from all angles | the portrait of Queen Mary by Sir William Reid Dick (NPG 4164) from all angles.
by Unknown photographer, issued by Carreras Tobacco Company
colour relief halftone cigarette card, 1935
NPG D49309
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 19 June 1947
NPG x188837
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 19 June 1947
NPG x188838
Related People
- Ann Barnes (née Dick) (daughter)
- Catherine Emma (née Treadwell), Lady Dick (wife)
- John Reid Dick (son)
- Mary E. Reid Hart (née Dick) (daughter)
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Dennis Wardleworth.
16 January 2020, 14:12
He was born at 2.35am on 13 January 1878, not 1879 as shown on your website, at 151 South Wellington Street in the Gorbals. I have a photocopy of his birth certificate.
Grace Marion Dewar
26 December 2020, 14:58
During the 1920’s, Reid Dick was my mother's tutor. Her name was Ivy Ruth Young (Loope), and her sculpture of Sir Ebenezer Howard (founder of Welwyn Garden City) was completed under his tutelage.
Before she left England in 1930, he gave her a sculpture of his son. Titled ‘Dawn’, it’s approx. 5” high, signed and dated at its base - and still sits on the bookcase I inherited from her. [I have often wondered if this piece had been sought by any of Dick’s family or archivists, but until now have not known how to contact them.]
I have photos that document all of this.