Lot 3742

Description

Queen's Medal for Department of Science and Art Students Prize, 1853, in bronze (45mm), obverse, bust of Queen Victoria left, reverse, wreath, edge inscribed, 'Wilhelmina Fillans, Glasgow. Stage 22b. May, 1855'. Edge nicks, otherwise very fine.

Wilhelmina Fillans was the daughter of the Scottish sculptor, James Fillans (1808-52), buried at Woodside cemetery, Paisley, Scotland. She was also a sculptor and an artist in her own right with exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1869 and 1871. One of her ancestors, also Wilhelmina Fillans born at Paisley, Scotland on 10 June 1884, a resident of Arncliffe in Sydney, NSW, Australia served as a sister in the Australian Army Nursing Service, departing for overseas service on 25 November 1914 and embarking for return to Australia on 2 April 1919.

With research.