Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1897
End Date: 1897
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,342 works exhibited.
£5,821 12s. 6d. receipts for sales.
75,591 visitors (based on paid admissions).
Policy: The exhibition was started in 1871 because 'The Library, Museum and Education Committee consider[ed] it desirable in the interests of Art [...]' (Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1871, p. 2). Its success was immediate. The receipts not only defrayed all costs but also '[...] supplied a handsome surplus to be devoted to the purposes of Art' (19th Annual Report, 1871, p. 5). As a result the autumn exhibition became an annual event.
The instructions issued to exhibitors were as follows:
'All works of Art intended for Exhibition (which must not have been previously exhibited in Liverpool) must be sent addressed to the Curator, Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool[...] Arrangements have been made to meet the convenience of Metropolitan Artists for the transmission of their Works, at their own cost and risk, through Mr. James Bourlet, 17 Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital, London.
A note [...] must be sent by post, and addressed to the Curator at Liverpool, giving the prices [...] and describing the works ads they are meant to be inserted in the Catalogue (quotations and narratives will be subject to the approval of the Acting Committee). At the back of each [work] must be written in full the name and Address of the Artist, the Title of the Picture and Number (if there are more than one)[...] The strict attention of Artists to these regulations is earnestly requested, so as to ensure accuracy in the catalogue. The absence of the Price List frequently interferes with the sale of [works of art].
[...] A Commission of Five per Cent (upon the catalogue prices) will be charged upon all works sold whilst in the possession of the Committee, whether by the Artist or the Committee.
The Committee are not responsible for, nor do they encourage any offers for Works not made through the Local Secretary; and they will be happy to receive any intimations from contributing Artists that none but Catalogue Prices would be acceptable.
All Works contributed by Members or Associates of the Royal Academy that may be sold at this Exhibition, are purchased subject to the condition that the Artist be allowed to exhibit such Work at the ensuing Exhibition of the Academy, the purchase money to be paid at the close of the Local Exhibition.
The utmost care will be taken of all Works of Art sent for the Exhibition; but the Committee will not be responsible for any damage or injury, whether in transit or whilst under their control, caused by fire or otherwise' (Instructions from 'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures', 1871, pp. 3-4).
Participants
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1897
Herbert Spencer, Esq. (cat. no. 1274, bronze bust, not for sale); Geo. Alexander, Esq. (cat. no. 1275, bronze bust, illustrated on p. 116, not for sale); M. P. Dagnan Bouveret (cat. no. 1277, bronze bust, not for sale); A Portrait Bust (cat. no. 1280, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Charles John Allen
1897
The late Philip H. Rathbone, Esq. (cat. no. 1276, bronze bust, £100).
Exhibitors included Gustav Natorp
1897
Miss Adelaide Burton (cat. no. 1278, marble bust, not for sale); Atlanta (cat. no. 1286, bronze statue, illustrated on p. 111, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Mary Pownall (Bromet)
1897
Mrs C. P. Gibbons (cat. no. 1279, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Raphael Nannini
1897
Pope Leo XIII (cat. no. 1281, marble bust, illustrated on p. 113, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henry Richard Hope-Pinker
1897
The Rev. James Martineau, DD (cat. no. 1282, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edith Elizabeth Downing
1897
Music sent up to God (cat. no. 1283, bust, £36).
Exhibitors included Mervyn Lawrence
1897
Thirteen - Bust of a Girl (cat. no. 1285, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Gertrude Crosfield
1897
Helen (cat. no. 1287, bust, £7).
Exhibitors included Caroline J. Jackson
1897
Study of a Head (cat. no. 1288, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included (Mary) Gertrude Spencer Stanhope
1897
Pan (cat. no. 1289, bronze statuette, £50).
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
1897
Spring (cat. no. 1290, plaster statuette, illustrated on p. 115, £21, also for sale in bronze for £52 10s., and marble for £105); Invocation (cat. no. 1294, statuette, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Louise Mège
1897
Relief (cat. no. 1291, £8).
Exhibitors included Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1897
The Mountain of Fame (cat. no. 1292, group, not for sale); A Valkyrie (cat. no. 1302, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henry Charles Fehr
1897
Invocation to the Goddess of Love (cat. no. 1293, statue, illustrated on p. 112, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Feodora Maud Georgina Gleichen
1897
Her Majesty the Queen (cat. no. 1295, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Alice Mary Chaplin
1897
The Toilet (cat. no. 1296, terracotta, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Adolfo Apolloni
1897
Study (cat. no. 1297, terracotta bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included J. Wenlock Rawlins
1897
Mimma (cat. no. 1298, bronzed plaster bust, £25).
Exhibitors included Ada Freeman Gell
1897
Girl's Head (cat. no. 1299, bronzed terracotta, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Samuel William Ward Willis
1897
The Dawn of Thought (cat. no. 1300, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
1897
Cassandra (cat. no. 1301, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Annie H. Griffith
1897
Portrait of a Youth (cat. no. 1303, plaster bust, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
1897
Pensée (cat. no. 1304, bronze statuette, £85).
Exhibitors included (Mary Louisa) Hermione Unwin
1897
Child's Head (cat. no. 1305, portrait medallion, £4 4s.); The Annunciation (cat. no. 1323, coloured relief, £20).
Exhibitors included Edith Anna Bell
1897
Naomi (cat. no. 1307, silver medallion, not for sale). Artist listed as 'Miss Edith A. Bell'.
Exhibitors included Frances Eliza Macdonald
1897
The Star of Bethlehem (cat. no. 1309, relief, £21 10s.).
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
1897
Portrait in Low Relief (cat. no. 1310, plaster, £5 5s.); The Late Alfred Turner, Esq., JP (cat. no. 1335, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Holding II
1897
Miss Lucy Draper (cat. no. 1284, bust, £20); Zoology (cat. no. 1311, coloured plaster, £3 3s.); Medallion Portraits (cat. no. 1312, not for sale); Ornithology (cat. no. 1315, coloured plaster, £3 3s.).
Exhibitors included Arthur George Walker
1897
Death of the First-born (cat. no. 1313, bronze panel, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Agnes Emily Bell
1897
Night (cat. no. 1314, planel in coloured plaster, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Margaret Macdonald
1897
The Annunciation (cat. no. 1316, relief, £21).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1897
The Rev. Canon Major Lester (cat. no. 1317, not for sale); The Right Rev. Mons. Nugent (cat. no. 1318, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Hamo Thornycroft
1897
Miss Joan Thornycroft (cat. no. 1319, bronze medallion, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. R. Frampton
1897
Annunciation (cat. no. 1320, metal relief, illustrated on p. 112, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Benjamin Lloyd
1897
The Reaper (cat. no. 1321, statuette, not for sale); A Slave deploring his hopeless fate (cat. no. 1322, statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
1897
A Guardian Angel (cat. no. 1325, bronze relief, not for sale); A Dream of the Sea (cat. no. 1330, panel, not for sale); Children bringing Lillies to the Holy Child (cat. no. 1332, relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Ernest Sichel
1897
A potter of the Stone Age (cat. no. 1326, bronze statuette, £25).
Exhibitors included Lily Alexander
1897
Enid (cat. no. 1327, bronze bust, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1897
Sleeping Beauty (cat. no. 1328, relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included James Hay
1897
'Thy face, that fair sweet face I know. I dreamed of it awhile ago. It is an angel's face, so mild. And yet so sadly pale' (cat. no. 1329, £2 2s.).
Exhibitors included Isabella Hartley
1897
The Old Man's Treasure after Gussow (cat. no. 1331, low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Domenico Antonio Tonelli III
1897
A Tale of Love (cat. no. 1333, statue, illustrated on p. 115, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Hughes
1897
The Finding of Eurydice (cat. no. 1334, marble, £350).
Exhibitors included Charles Beacon
1897
Panthers Fighting (cat. no. 1336, group in wax, illustrated on p. 114, not for sale).
Exhibitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
1897
Study for 'The Age of Innocence' (cat. no. 1337, bronze, not for sale); Griselda (cat. no. 1338, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
1897
The late Archbishop of Canterbury (cat. no. 1339, bronze bust, not for sale); Frank Griffin, Esq., of New York (cat. no. 1340, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Goscombe John
1897
A Maid so Young (cat. no. 1342, bronzed plaster bust, illustrated on p. 114, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included Louise
1897
H.M.H. The Queen (cat. no. 1341, reduction of statue, not for sale).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1897', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=ann_1269522741, accessed 04 Dec 2023]
