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Julian Phelps Allan, formerly Eva Dorothy Allan, OBE (1892-1996) was an English sculptor active between 1923 and 1960. In addition to her sculpting, she served in both the First and Second World Wars, eventually becoming a colonel in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and the first President of the ATS War Office Selection Board.
She studied at the Royal Academy Schools from December 1922 to December 1927, where she was awarded a Landseer Scholarship in 1923 and won the Royal Academy’s Gold Medal in 1925.
She changed her name to Julian Phelps from Eva Dorothy in 1929.
Further information can be found in her entry in the Mapping the Practice & Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 database.
Sculptures by Julian Phelps Allan in public collections in the UK can be viewed here on the Art UK website.
Born: 22 June 1892 in Southampton
Died: 31 January 1996
RA Schools student from 12 December 1922 to December 1927
Gender: Female