Ruby Levick

Ruby Winifred Levick (11 September 1871 – 31 March 1940) was a Welsh sculptor and medallist who had many of her works exhibited at the Royal Academy.

[5] She studied at the National Art Training School, NATS, in London between 1893 and 1897, where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri and where she won a gold medal for her statuette Boys Wrestling.

[6] Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were several other notable female sculptors including Margaret Giles, Esther Moore, Florence Steele, Lilian Simpson and Lucy Gwendolen Williams.

[6] Throughout her career Levick specialised in bronze statuettes and garden pieces, often of children at play or of people in motion.

[6] Her statuettes of male athletes and groups of working people, for example Fishermen Hauling in a Net, were much admired.