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Shirreffs, William
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1846-1902
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Born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Shirreffs attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1871 – 75 where he studied sculpture under William Mossman the younger. In 1871 he won the Queens Prize in the annual National Exhibition of art-school student work for a design for a wall panel, and the Plasterer’s Company prize for a panel modelled in plaster. The following year, 1872, he was awarded a free scholarship.
After graduating, he opened a studio in 1877 at 108 West Regent Street, and established a cire-perdue foundry, the first of its kind in the West of Scotland, with his brother, Charles Gordon Shirreffs (1857-1913), who was a brass-founder. Shirreffs worked closely with the architect J J Burnet on several projects, such as the Glasgow Savings Bank at 177 Ingram Street, Glasgow. He also collaborated with other sculptors, notably Sir George Frampton, for whom he supervised the carving of the reliefs and sculpture on the North Entrance of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. He exhibited at the RGIFA, the RA and International Exhibition held in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, in 1888.
Shirreffs was buried in Glasgow's Western Necropolis, where his family monument, erected in 1905, features a large, bronze Cherub head possibly of his own design.
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