Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1901
Start Date: 26 February 1901
End Date: 1901
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 'Since the opening (Oct. 1, 1888), there have been thirteen Artists' Exhibitions, and twelve special exhibitions on loan, or of "Arts and Crafts," and the like. The visitors to these exhibitions who paid for admission were 620,232 people' (Year's Art, 1902, p. 213).
Policy: 'Commission on sales, 5 per cent. on Catalogue price. London Agents: Messrs. Dicksee & Co., 7, Ryder Street, St. James's, S.W.' (Year's Art, 1902, p. 213).
Exhibits
Exhibition included Eve
Exhibition included Dr W. Bruce-Joy
Exhibition included Angelus
Exhibition included Melody
Exhibition included Reflections
Exhibition included Bust of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, VC, Commander-in-Chief
Exhibition included Muriel
Exhibition included Angel Panel
Exhibition included Bust of Mrs Rose Clarke Hartwell
Exhibition included The Necklace
Exhibition included Model for Statue of John Harrison, Esq., for City Square, Leeds
Exhibition included Base and Column for Electric Light for City Square, Leeds
Exhibition included Ruth
Exhibition included A Reverend Seignior
Exhibition included Mrs Charles Dean
Exhibition included Geraldine from Coleridge's Christabel
Exhibition included A Little Peasant
Exhibition included Religion
Exhibition included The Mother
Exhibition included Morning
Exhibition included In the Lion's Grip: A Study of a Lion and Serpent
Exhibition included Study of a Woman's Head
Exhibition included Echo
Exhibition included Portrait of a Lady
Exhibition included Matthew Maris
Exhibition included Ileene
Exhibited with the legend: "A rosebud set in little useful thorns as sweet as English air could make her".
Exhibition included Design for a Jewel Casket
Offered for sale The Necklace
£5
on sale by commission in bronze for £20
Offered for sale Angel Panel
£35
Offered for sale A Reverend Seignior
£18 18s.
Offered for sale Religion
£15 15s.
Offered for sale Ruth
£10
on sale by commission in marble for £25
Offered for sale Geraldine from Coleridge's Christabel
£21
Offered for sale A Little Peasant
£21
Offered for sale Morning
£10
Offered for sale The Mother
£330
on sale by commission in bronze for £330
Offered for sale In the Lion's Grip: A Study of a Lion and Serpent
£7 15s.
Offered for sale Bust of Field-Marshal Earl Roberts, VC, Commander-in-Chief
£262 10s.
Offered for sale Echo
£35
Offered for sale Reflections
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Melody
£8 8s.
Offered for sale Angelus
£52 10s.
Offered for sale Ileene
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Study of a Woman's Head
£5 5s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
'Ruth'
Exhibitors included Dorathea Hirst
'Ileene'
Exhibitors included (Mary Louisa) Hermione Unwin
'Study of a Woman's Head'
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Marion H. Wilson
'Melody'
Exhibitors included Hibbert Charles Binney
'Reflections'
Exhibitors included William Goscombe John
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Charles Leonard Hartwell
'Bust of Mrs Rose Clarke Hartwell'
Exhibitors included Thomas Brock
'Eve'
Exhibitors included Henry Charles Fehr
'Model for Statue of John Harrison, Esq., for City Square, Leeds'
Exhibitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
'Base and Column for Electric Light for City Square, Leeds'
Exhibitors included Lucy Gwendolen Williams
'Geraldine from Coleridge's Christabel'
Exhibitors included Alice Gates
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Macallan Swan
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
'Portrait of a Lady'
Exhibitors included Ernest Sichel
Multiple works
Exhibitors included (Louisa) Edith C. Maryon
'Religion'
Exhibitors included Charles James Pibworth
'The Mother'
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
'Morning'
Exhibitors included Arthur James Mills
'In the Lion's Grip: A Study of a Lion and Serpent'
Exhibitors included Alfred E. Lewis
'Echo'
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1901
1901
Citing this record
'Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1901', 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/mapping/public/view/event.php?id=msib5_1209417535, accessed 13 Oct 2026]





