Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
End Date: 1898
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,507 works exhibited.
£9,397 17s. 6d. receipts on sales.
66,004 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).
Organizing Institution or Venue
Exhibitors included Della Robbia Pottery and Marble Co. Ltd.
1898
University Vase (cat. no. 1404, £17 6s.); University Vase (cat. no. 1406, £17 6s.); Dewdrops - Design for Window Garden Box (cat. no. 1416, £6); Algerian Vase (cat. no. 1418, £1 10s.); Algerian Vase (cat. no. 1420, £1 10s.); Medallion of the Holy Family (cat. no. 1424, designed by R. M. Rope, produced by the Della Robbia Pottery Company Limited, £18); Bolton Vase (cat. no. 1428, £17 6s.).
Exhibitors included Della Robbia Pottery and Marble Co. Ltd.
1898
Cantegalli Vase (cat. no. 1411, £2 10s.); Cantegalli Vase (cat. no. 1413, £2 10s.); Central Panel for the Fountain at the Savoy Hotel, London (cat. no. 1426, designed and executed by Harold Rathbone, Della Robbia Pottery Company Limited, £6); Bolton Vase (cat. no. 1432, £17 6s.); Altar Piece (cat. no. 1436, designed by Miss E. M. Rope, produced by the Della Robbia Pottery Limited, £50); Dutch Vase (cat. no. 1440, £1 10s.); Smyrna Vase (cat. no. 1448, £1 1s.); Medallion of Madonna, Holy Infant, and Cherubim (cat. no. 1506, designed by Harold Rathbone, not for sale).
Organized by Walker Art Gallery
1898
Participants
Exhibitors included Emil Fuchs
1898
Lady Alice Montagn (cat. no. 1473, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Gordon Mitchell Forsyth
1898
Professor Bannister Fletcher (cat. no. 1388, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Oliver Wheatley
1898
Autumn (cat. no. 1389, panel in relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included (Mary) Gertrude Spencer Stanhope
1898
Summer (cat. no. 1390, plaster relief, £20).
Exhibitors included Florence Parkinson
1898
Bust of Mr Joseph Tapley in 'The Scarlet Feather' (cat. no. 1391, not for sale); Cup and Ball (cat. no. 1405, plaster statuette, £25, also for sale in bronze £50).
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
1898
Small Model for Statue of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (cat. no. 1393, not for sale); Professor Leschetzsky (cat. no. 1501, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1898
The Boss of the House (cat. no. 1394, plaster bust, not for sale); The Late S. Leigh-Gregson, the Students' Friend (cat. no. 1500, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Caroline J. Jackson
1898
Design for Corner Chimney Piece (cat. no. 1395, plaster, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Brock
1898
Sir Henry Tate, Bart. (cat. no. 1396, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Harry Bates
1898
Lord Lansdowne (cat. no. 1397, marble bust, not for sale); A Study in Marble (cat. no. 1467, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
1898
The Earl Egerton of Tatton (cat. no. 1398, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Emil Fuchs
1898
Mr Carl Meyer (cat. no. 1399, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Paul Raphael Montford
1898
Sir Lewis Morris (cat. no. 1400, not for sale); The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (cat. no. 1407, bronze, £50, also for sale in marble £75); Death and the Boy (cat. no. 1430, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edward Francis Toone (Frank) Theed
1898
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (cat. no. 1401, marble bust, £157 10s.).
Exhibitors included Carl Albetill
1898
The Right Honourable John Houlding, Lord Mayor of Liverpool (cat. no. 1402, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Lucy Gwendolen Williams
1898
'O Lady Moon. Thy horns point towards the west. Wane - be at rest' (cat. no. 1414, plaster, £31 10s.); Sappho (cat. no. 1419, bronze, £105); Seated Mercury (cat. no. 1502, plaster, £8 8s.).
Exhibitors included Giovanni Fontana
1898
Jephthah and his Daughter (cat. no. 1408, marble group, not for sale, exhibited posthumously).
Exhibitors included Helen Langley
1898
Design for Ceiling Panel (cat. no. 1409, not for sale); Design for Frieze (cat. no. 1485, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
1898
Mrs Kent Murray (cat. no. 1410, not for sale).
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
1898
Robert Louis Stevenson (cat. no. 1412, bronze statuette, not for sale); Mrs Hemans ('from authentic sources', cat. no. 1417, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Jean Hugues
1898
Venice (cat. no. 1415, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Herbert Hampton
1898
R. L. Tweedale, Esq. (cat. no. 1421, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
1898
L'Agriculture (cat. no. 1422, ceramique vase, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Clement William Jewitt
1898
Celia (cat. no. 1423, plaster bust, £20).
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
1898
Medallion of the Holy Family (cat. no. 1424, designed by R. M. Rope, produced by the Della Robbia Pottery Company Limited, £18); Medallion - 'The Kingdom of Christ' (cat. no. 1425, not for sale); Altar Piece (cat. no. 1436, designed by Miss E. M. Rope, produced by the Della Robbia Pottery Limited, £50); A Sea Chariot (cat. no. 1481, bronze medallion, £8 8s.); Design for Ornamental Panel (cat. no. 1498, low relief panel, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Harold Steward Rathbone
1898
Central Panel for the Fountain at the Savoy Hotel, London (cat. no. 1426, designed and executed by Harold Rathbone, Della Robbia Pottery Company Limited, £6); Medallion of Madonna, Holy Infant, and Cherubim (cat. no. 1506, designed by Harold Rathbone produced by the Della Robbia Pottery Company Limited, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Wenlock Rollins
1898
Mrs Charles Ritchie (Miss Ruth Jennings) (cat. no. 1427, plaster bust, not for sale); John Da Costa, Esq. (cat. no. 1433, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick Winter
1898
Miss Dorothea Baird (Mrs H. B. Irving) as 'Trilby' (cat. no. 1429, bronze bust, £21); J. Forbes Robertson, Esq., as 'Buckingham' (cat. no. 1431, bronze bust, £21).
Exhibitors included L. H. Lavasseur
1898
Jeanne d'Arc (cat. no. 1434, statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Cassandra Ann Walker
1898
Sgraffito Panel (cat. no. 1435, created by C. A. Walker and M. J. Pollexfen, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Arthur E. Vokes
1898
Portrait Study (cat. no. 1437, plaster head, £1 10s.).
Exhibitors included W. J. McLean
1898
The Sower (cat. no. 1439, bronze statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
1898
Don José - A Character Study (cat. no. 1441, plaster bust, not for sale); Priscilla (cat. no. 1446, plaster bust, £40); An Old World Maiden (cat. no. 1488, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Mark Rogers Junior
1898
Edward VI (Model Bust for King Edward's School, Bury St Edmunds, cat. no. 1442, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Blackall Simonds
1898
Central Decoration for the Studio Door of L. Alma Tadema, Esq., RA (cat. no. 1443, brass repoussé, not for sale); Hervor Alvit - The Swan Girl and her Companions (cat. no. 1461, marble group, £1200).
Exhibitors included Charles Beacon
1898
Orpheus (cat. no. 1444, relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included (Mary Louisa) Hermione Unwin
1898
Day Dreams (cat. no. 1445, bust in tinted plaster, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Mewburn Crook
1898
Study of a figure from Life (cat. no. 1447, bronzed plaster, not for sale); Spring (cat. no. 1458, panel in relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick Rogers
1898
Träumerei (cat. no. 1449, group in carved pear tree and walnut, £100).
Exhibitors included William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1898
Happy in Beauty, Life and Love, and everything (cat. no. 1450, low-relief and stand, £157 10s.).
Exhibitors included James Havard Thomas
1898
A Draught Ox (cat. no. 1451, marble low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frank Baxter
1898
Study of an Old Garibaldian (cat. no. 1452, plaster bust, not for sale, for sale in bronze for £30); Abyssinian Buffalo (cat. no. 1493, bronze, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Mary Kynaston Potter
1898
'Where did you come from, baby dear, Out of the everywhere into here?' (cat. no. 1453, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Hughes
1898
L'Ame du Bin (cat. no. 1454, bronze statuette, £50).
Exhibitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
1898
Mother and Child (cat. no. 1455, bronze group, £25); Portrait of a Gentleman (cat. no. 1457, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henry Charles Fehr
1898
The Battle of Wakefield (cat. no. 1459, portion of frieze, not for sale); St George and the Rescued Maiden (cat. no. 1478, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Charles John Allen
1898
Rescued (cat. no. 1460, plaster group, not for sale); Samuel Rathbone, Esq. (cat. no. 1475, modelled chielfy from a photograph taken in 1873, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1898
The Crash of Doom (cat. no. 1462, life size plaster, illustrated on p. 110, £525); Innocence (cat. no. 1474, marble bust, £131 5s.).
Exhibitors included Hugo Elmquist
1898
Prayer (cat. no. 1463, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Goscombe John
1898
A Study (cat. no. 1464, bronze bust, not for sale); A Drinking Horn and Silver Stand (cat. no. 1465, silver gilt, illustrated on p. 111, not for sale).
Exhibitors included W. J. McLean
1898
Ailsa (cat. no. 1466, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edouard Lanteri
1898
The Fisherman and the Mermaid (cat. no. 1468, bronze group, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
1898
Adam and Eve (cat. no. 1469, group, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Henry Monsell Furse
1898
Cock and Snake (cat. no. 1470, bronze group, £126); Lord Nelson (cat. no. 1503, bronze statuette, £36 15s.).
Exhibitors included George Edward Wade
1898
Miss Victoria Grant-Duff (cat. no. 1471, bronze statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Hamo Thornycroft
1898
The Bather (cat. no. 1472, bronze statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included J. Bastet
1898
Fin de Siècle (cat. no. 1476, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Arthur George Atkinson
1898
Out in the Fields (cat. no. 1477, £285).
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
1898
Perseus, as a symbol of subduing and resisting evil (cat. no. 1479, plaster, illustrated on p. 48, not for sale).
Exhibitors included M. C. T. Lamb
1898
Study of a Head (cat. no. 1480, relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included O. Waldmann
1898
Salière en étain (cat. no. 1482, 400 francs); Tigress and Serpent (cat. no. 1491, bronze group).
Exhibitors included Frank Lutiger
1898
Aurora, Tazza (cat. no. 1483, silver repoussè, £225).
Exhibitors included Robert J. Abraham
1898
Portion of a Frieze (cat. no. 1484, coloured plaster, £20).
Exhibitors included George Holding II
1898
Samson Killeth a Lion (cat. no. 1486, plaster relief, £3); Jesus Purifieth the Temple (cat. no. 1487, plaster relief, £5).
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
1898
The Oblivion of Sleep (low relief panel, in plaster £5 5s., in marble £25).
Exhibitors included Cecil Hew Brown
1898
The Fight (cat. no. 1490, not for sale); Dead Beat (cat. no. 1494, bronze group, £15 15s.); Defiance (cat. no. 1496, bronze, £70).
Exhibitors included Henry Teixeira de Mattos
1898
On Guard (cat. no. 1492, bronze, £31 10s.); Prey in Sight (cat. no. 1495, bronze, £31 10s.); Blind (cat. no. 1507, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams
1898
Honeysuckle (cat. no. 1497, £4 4s.); Seated Mercury (cat. no. 1502, plaster, £8 8s.).
Exhibitors included Benjamin Lloyd
1898
Llewellyn ap Gruffydd, the last Welsh Prince (cat. no. 1499, £60).
Exhibitors included Ada Freeman Gell
1898
At the Brook (cat. no. 1504, bronze group, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included Alfred E. Lewis
1898
Design for Centrepiece (cat. no. 1505, to be executed in silver, gilt and ivory, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. A. Boisseau
1898
Oysel le Troubadour du pays bleu (cat. no. 1508, bronze statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edward R. Catterns
1898
Sunset - The Sweet Water, Witley, Surrey (cat. no. 1509, £45).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=ann_1269522726, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
