Details of Sculptor

Surname

Deare

Alternative Surname

First Name

Joseph

Initial of Surname

D

Year of Birth/Baptism

1803

Flourished

Year of Death

1835

Biographical Details

The nephew of John Deare, he was baptised on 27 May 1803 at St Nicholas, Liverpool, the son of Edward Deare, an attorney, and Margaret, née Wattle. He joined the Royal Academy Schools in April 1822, winning silver medals in 1823 and 1825, and a gold in the latter year for his group, David and Goliath (3). J T Smith reported a couple of years later that casts of this work could be bought at Deare’s father’s house at 12, Great St Helens, Bishopsgate ‘where several other of his productions may be seen’ (Smith 1828, 2, 331-2). The Society of Arts three times awarded him the silver Isis medal (1, 2, 22). By 1829 he had left the family home and set up at 58 Great Russell Street, moving again the following year to 38 Essex Street, Strand and then to 18 Hart Street, Bloomsbury.
From around 1832 he worked and exhibited in Liverpool. That year he showed eight busts at the Liverpool Academy from the house of William Clements, a printseller in Bond Street (11-14, 17-20). By 1834 he had moved to 4 Colquitt Street and he later had a studio in the old Excise Office in Hanover Street where he worked as a sculptor and portrait-painter. Late one night in 1835 he fell while trying to reach his studio by climbing a wall. He died of his injuries soon after, on 5 August 1835.
Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 124; Graves II, 1905-6, 283; Hutchison 1960-62, 174; Morris and Roberts 1998, 186; ODNB (Stevens)
Collections of Drawings: sketchbook, Liverpool Central Library, H741.91 DEA D 10617; album, Liverpool Central Library, riq 920 DEA, Eq 801