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Lee, Thomas Stirling
(b London, 16 March 1856; d London, 28 June 1916). English sculptor. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1875, won the Gold Medal in 1877 and, with the Death of Abel (untraced), won the travelling scholarship in 1879. He studied in Paris under Pierre-Jules Cavelier at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1880–81, and in Rome in 1881–3. After a period in the studio of Birnie Philip he won the competition for reliefs for St George’s Hall, Liverpool, with two series in marble, the Story of Justice and the Story of Liverpool (1886–94). Edmund Gosse criticized the Dawn of Womanhood (exh. RA 1893), which formed part of one of these series, for its ‘crude realism’, but Spielmann considered them ‘the finest reliefs produced in the country’, praising Lee’s choice of materials and beautiful studies of the human form in narrative compositions. Other architectural work includes carved religious and allegorical figures in low relief on the Lindley clock tower (1902), Huddersfield, and bronze gates for the Adelphi Bank (1903), Liverpool.
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