Green, William (1853-1880)
Green, William
Warwick, Warwickshire; carver (fl.c.1853-1880)
Apprenticed to or employed by J. M. Willcox on his commission for Samuel Peto at Somerleyton Hall, c.1851. After Willcox’s death in 1859, when the business was taken over by another employee, Thomas Henry Kendall, Green continued in the firm as a carver. In 1862 Kendall exhibited the ‘Life and Drawing’ carving at the London International Exhibition and this piece was also shown the following year in the Animal or Still Life Division of the Wood Carving Exhibition held at the Royal Society of Arts, where it was awarded a 2nd prize of £4, to be split between the carvers, Green and Charles Humphriss. One of Green’s sons, John Walter Green (b. 1857) was apprenticed to Kendall, continued his studies at Birmingham Art College and in 1888 married the daughter of John Seymour, a carver who had come up from Taunton to work in Warwick.
Source: Stevens, The Woodcarvers of Warwick (1980).