Garron Point, Antrim Coast Road
Image credit: National Museums NI

Garron Point, Antrim Coast Road

Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)

National Museums NI

Sculptor, painter, printmaker and teacher, also known as James Stoupe, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he attended the Model School. As well as art education in Belfast he studied lithography at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, during World War I. From 1904–38 Stoupe taught modelling at Belfast School of Art. Showed extensively at RHA, was a member of Belfast Art Society and its Arts Club. The Club and the Ulster Museum hold examples.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)

Artworks by Seamus Stoupe

  • Garron Point, Antrim Coast Road
    Garron Point, Antrim Coast Road Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)
    Ulster Museum
  • Autumn
    Autumn Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)
    Ulster Museum
  • After Milking Time
    After Milking Time Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)
    Ulster Museum
  • Hillfoot Road (?)
    Hillfoot Road (?) Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)
    Ulster Museum
  • Ballylesson
    Ballylesson Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)
    Ulster Museum
  • Study for 'After Milking Time'
    Study for 'After Milking Time' Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)
    Ulster Museum
  • French Barque in York Dock
    French Barque in York Dock Seamus Stoupe (1872–1949)
    Ulster Museum
  • 2 more

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James Seamus Stoupe was born in Belfast, Ireland on 27 October 1872 and attended Belfast School of Art from 1896 to 1900 and the Royal College of Art in London until 1902. He subsequently worked as a sculptor, lithographer and painter. In 1903 he was appointed Professor of Modelling at Belfast School of Art, a position he held until 1934.

Stoupe participated in the 5th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Society and Guild of Art-Workers in Dublin in 1917. He also exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, the Ulster Arts Club in Belfast, and at Belfast Art Society. He was elected a member of the Royal Ulster Academy in 1894. He was President of the Ulster Arts Club in 1920-21.

His address was given as 55 Hanover Street, Belfast in 1901 and 1905; 65 Haypark Avenue, Ballynafeigh, Belfast in 1908; 25 Denmark Street, Belfast in 1911 and 82 Willow Bank Street, Watford, Belfast in 1921 and 1930. He died at 127 Cavehill Road, Belfast on 20 May 1949.

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