Background
HARPLEY, Sydney was born on April 19, 1927. Son of Sydney Frederick Harpley and Rose Isabel Harpley.
HARPLEY, Sydney was born on April 19, 1927. Son of Sydney Frederick Harpley and Rose Isabel Harpley.
Royal College, of Artist
He was elected to the Academy of Realist Art (Allegany Rehabilitation Associates) on 25 April 1974 and the Royal Academy (Research Associate) on 24 March 1981. His first major sale was Little girl circa 1956, a statue of a seated school girl, now in the Museum of New Zealand. The naturalness of the pose is considered to be due to his experience modelling artificial limbs in the late 1940s.
Other works include Study of Josephine Harpley (the artist"s wife) on a Rope Hammock and Reading a Book.
Mostly held privately. Some street sculpture in Hemel Hempstead new town from 1962.
The joy of cycling in the Singapore Botanical Gardens Dated 1987.
Married Sally Holliday in 1956 (divorced in 1968).