Sir William Reynolds-Stephens

Sir William Reynolds-Stephens's artistic talents lay not only in genre painting, but also as a sculptor of portraits and figurative subjects and as a designer and maker of furniture. Born of British parents in Detroit, USA, in 1862, William Ernest Stephens assumed the name of Reynolds in London, his father being William Comben Stephens. London became his new home, where he was able to study at the Royal Academy Schools, winning prizes for both sculpture and painting. He exhibited at the Royal Academy as well as at other leading London galleries from 1886. His career peaked in the 1920s, when he was elected a Member of the Royal Society for British Sculptors and was awarded the Gold Medal for services to sculpture. He received his knighthood shortly afterwards and lived for the majority of his life in London, dying in 1942.

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