Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1932

Sir William Reid Dick RA (1878 - 1961)

RA Collection: Art

William Reid Dick collaborated with Sir Edwin Lutyens on several major projects. He designed the sculpture for Lutyens’s Arras Memorial in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery and executed sculptures for the façade of his Old Midland Bank Head Office, Poultry, EC2 (1924-1937).

At the Royal Academy exhibition of 1932 Reid Dick exhibited a sketch model titled ‘the Irwin Statue for Delhi. Pedestal designed by Sir Edwin L. Lutynes, R.A.’ and in 1945 he exhibited ‘Part of a Memorial to Anthony Viscount Kneborth’, the architect of which had been Lutyens.

Throughout his career Reid Dick executed many portrait busts, several of which were of architects he had worked with, such as Mervyn E. Macartney (Exh. RA 1911) and Sir Reginald Blomfield (Exh. RA 1928; National Portrait Gallery).