Eric Winters Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1921 - d. 1968

Eric Winters represented the fifth generation of sculptors in the Winters family. His talent was recognised from an early age and in 1939 he was the youngest student at the Royal Academy Sculpture School, having been awarded the only open scholarship for the institution. His studies were interrupted by the war years to be resumed in 1947-52, when the Academy re-opened. As a student he won four Landseer prizes for figurative sculpture and was awarded a medal at the XVIth Olympiad Sport in Art exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1948. His passion for sculpture and in particular for portrait sculpture was paving a way for his role as one of the founding members of the Society of Portrait Sculptors, with whom he exhibited regularly from 1952 until his tragically early death at the age of 47.