Reginald Fairfax Wells

Reginald Fairfax Wells was a British sculptor and ceramicist (1877–1951). He was born at Rio de Janeiro.

Also recorded as Reginald F. Wells; Reginald Wells.

Reginald Fairfax Wells in brief

Born
1877
Died
1951
Known for
sculptor and ceramicist
Place of birth
Rio de Janeiro
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Formation and teaching

Reginald Fairfax Wells studied at Royal College of Art and Camberwell College of Arts. He trained under Edouard Lanteri.

Catalogued works

2 works under this name are catalogued by The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1860 to 1937.

Life Cast of the Hands and Face of Abraham Lincoln, dated Cast in plaster 1860; cast in bronze by 1888, bronze, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1891.77-79. Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915-1987), dated 1937-1991, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Wells, Reginald Fairfax, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. Wells, Reginald F., (1877–1951), Sculptor, Who Was Who, 2007. Wells-Pestell, Baron, (Reginald Alfred Wells-Pestell) (27 Jan. 1910–17 Jan. 1991), Who Was Who, 2007. Vicary, Rev. Douglas Reginald, (24 Sept. 1916–27 Feb. 2007), Canon Residentiary and Precentor of Wells Cathedral, 1975–88, Who Was Who, 2007. Probable yields of wells in the bedrock aquifers of Fairfax County, Virginia, Open-File Report, 1978. XIX.— Reginald, bishop of Bath (1174-1191); his episcopate, and his share in the building of the church of Wells. A psychobiography of Oliver Reginald Tambo from an African psychology perspective, Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2022. Detection of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola at two mid-Atlantic natural areas in Anne Arundel County, Maryland and Fairfax County, Virginia, USA, 2020. Spatial and temporal patterns in streamflow, water chemistry, and aquatic macroinvertebrates of selected streams in Fairfax County, Virginia, 2007–18, 2020. The legacy of Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd in Zimbabwean public life history, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021. A Multilevel Eigenvector Spatial Filtering Model of House Prices: A Case Study of House Sales in Fairfax County, Virginia, ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2019. Reginald Saxton: An unlikely pioneer of battleground blood transfusion, Transfusion Medicine, 2021. Two-dimensional photonic band-Gap defect mode laser, Science, 1999.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 4 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1877Reginald Fairfax Wells born at Rio de Janeiro.
  2. 1937Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915-1987) (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1951Reginald Fairfax Wells died.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Probable yields of wells in the bedrock aquifers of Fairfax County, Virginia, Open-File Report, 1978

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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    Vicary, Rev. Douglas Reginald, (24 Sept. 1916–27 Feb. 2007), Canon Residentiary and Precentor of Wells Cathedral, 1975–88, Who Was Who, 2007

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Wells-Pestell, Baron, (Reginald Alfred Wells-Pestell) (27 Jan. 1910–17 Jan. 1991), Who Was Who, 2007

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Wells, Reginald F., (1877–1951), Sculptor, Who Was Who, 2007

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Wells, Reginald Fairfax, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Semantic Scholar corpus, 8 publications naming Reginald Fairfax Wells.

    scholarly index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Reginald Fairfax Wells.

    museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago

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  8. 8.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 1 work naming Reginald Fairfax Wells.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q56117222: Reginald Fairfax Wells

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  10. 10.

    “Reginald Fairfax Wells”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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