Background
Spicer-Simson, Theodore was born on June 25, 1871 in le Havre, France. Son of Frederick John and Dora Mary (Spicer) Spicer-Simson.
Spicer-Simson, Theodore was born on June 25, 1871 in le Havre, France. Son of Frederick John and Dora Mary (Spicer) Spicer-Simson.
Educated in England, France and Germany. Student Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1892-1894. Pupil of sculptor J. Dampt, Paris.
Draughtsman designer, Gorham & Company, New York, 1896-1897. Free lance artist, since 1897. Designer of more than 300 portrait medallions, including Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt (ordered by French Government mint), William H. Taft, General Horace Porter, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, Edward Arlington Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, Hervey Allen, George Meredith, G. B. Shaw, H. G. Wells, Lord Rutherford, Georges Courteline, King and Queen of the Belgians, Doctor Selma Lagerlof, et cetera
Designer National Academy of Science medals, awarded for outstanding work in oceanography, paleontology, geology, et cetera, The Guggenheim Aeronautical medal, C. I. Young Princeton University medal, National Tuberculosis Association Meda
Commemorative tablets to C. I. Young, Alexander Bell (in National Geography Building, Washington, District of Columbia), to H.J. Allen (in American Museum of Natural History, New York). Life size busts in bronze and marble: Town Hall, Calcutta.
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. South Place Chapel, London.
Johannesberg Art Museum.
Works on permanent exhibition. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New New York British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Luxembourg, Paris.
Kaiser Freidrich Museum, Berlin. National Museum, Prague, et cetera
Member National Society Fine Arts, France. Club: Century Association (New York).
Married Margaret Schmidt, July 1, 1896.