Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896
End Date: 1896
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,238 works exhibited.
£4,197 8s. 0d. receipts for sales.
64,260 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 John Cassidy
1896
The late Sir Charles Hallé (cat. no. 1162, bust, illustrated on p. 122, £150); H. Clarence Whaite, Esq., PRCA, RWS (cat. no. 1234, illustrated on p. 123, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Ada Freeman Gell
1896
Psyche (cat. no. 1163, marble bust, £100).
Exhibitors included W. Charles May
1896
His Eminence Cardinal Vaughan (cat. no. 1164, illustrated on p. 122, for sale in plaster £25, in bronze £80, in marble £120).
Exhibitors included George Blackall Simonds
1896
Miss Blanch Hannington (cat. no. 1165, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Edward Taylerson
1896
Christmas Carol (cat. no. 1166, marble low relief, £8 10s.).
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
1896
Boy on Dolphin (cat. no. 1167, £15); The Guardian Angel (cat. no. 1168, Della Robbia ware, £5 5s.); Winter's Tale (cat. no. 1218, Della Robbia Ware, £5 5s.); Procession of Children (cat. no. 1230, £6).
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
1896
The Banners of the Faithful Relief (cat. no. 1169, metal relief, £15 15s.); The Seamaid's Song (cat. no. 1221, relief, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1896
L. Alma-Tadema, Esq., RA (cat. no. 1170, marble copy of diploma bust, £78 15s.); George Henschel, Esq. (cat. no. 1205, bronze head, £78 15s.).
Exhibitors included Feodora Maud Georgina Gleichen
1896
Madame Emma Calve as Santuzza (cat. no. 1171, marble bust, executed for H.M. The Queen, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Kühme Beveridge
1896
Doctor Magin, of Johannesburg (cat. no. 1172, not for sale); William Koch (cat. no. 1173, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1896
Rutland Barrington, Esq. (cat. no. 1174, bust, £25); Head (cat. no. 1175, portrait, not for sale); The Flight of Fancy (cat. no. 1191, statue, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Charles John Allen
1896
Love and the Mermaid (cat. no. 1176, bronze group, not for sale); The late P. H. Rathbone, Esq., JP, Chairman of the Arts Committee (cat. no. 1193, plaster bust, illustrated on p. 121, not for sale); A Dream of Love (cat. no. 1896, bronze group, £50).
Exhibitors included Annie H. Griffith
1896
Portrait of an Italian (cat. no. 1181, bronzed plaster, £7 7s.); 'A Son of the Sea' - Training Ship Indefatigable (cat. no. 1235A, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henry Charles Fehr
1896
Frank Fehr (cat. no. 1182, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Esther Mary Moore
1896
The Deluge (cat. no. 1183, group, £100).
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
1896
Stella (cat. no. 1184, decorative panel, plaster, £2 2s.); Portrait (cat. no. 1231, plaster medallion, not for sale); Portrait (cat. no. 1232, plaster medallion, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Harriet S. Pettigrew
1896
Miss Lillian Pettigrew (cat. no. 1185, £15 15s.); Bronze Statuette (cat. no. 1227, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Aphra Peirce
1896
Sgraffito Vase - The Cupids and the Tiger (cat. no. 1188, designed by Peirce, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Harold Steward Rathbone
1896
Angel Vase (cat. no. 1190, designed by Rathbone, £3 3s.); Design for Window Garden Boxes of the Town Hall, Liverpool (cat. no. 1210, designed by Harold Rathbone and E. Manzoni, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Holding II
1896
Angel Vase (cat. no. 1190A, plaster medallion, £10).
Exhibitors included Giovanni Bozzi
1896
Fatal Domani (cat. no. 1192, bronze statuette, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included William Hamo Thornycroft
1896
The Joy of Life (cat. no. 1194, bronze statue, £840).
Exhibitors included Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé
1896
The late Sir Charles Halle (cat. no. 1195, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Benjamin Lloyd
1896
The Spirit of Harmony (cat. no. 1196, statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included (Edgar) Bertram Mackennal
1896
Truth (cat. no. 1197, bronze statuette, £45); Salomé (cat. no. 1224, bronze statuette, £35).
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
1896
'Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed' (cat. no. 1198, bronze statuette, £100); Statuette of Burns, being a fac-simile reduction of colossal statue erected at Paisley, N.B. (cat. no. 1228, £15).
Exhibitors included Herbert Hampton
1896
Narcissus (cat. no. 1199, bronze statuette, £175); David (cat. no. 1203, statue, bronze, £750).
Exhibitors included Hibbert Charles Binney
1896
La Penserosa (cat. no. 1204, bust, for sale in plaster £20, in bronze £40).
Exhibitors included (Mary) Gertrude Spencer Stanhope
1896
Young Orpheus (cat. no. 1206, bronze statuette, £50).
Exhibitors included Mark Rogers Junior
1896
'Talium est enim reguum exlorum' - Matthew xvi, 14 (cat. no. 1207, coloured plaster, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included Lydia Gay
1896
Sir Joseph Prestwich, DCL, FRS, FGS (cat. no. 1209, portrait medal, £3 10s.).
Exhibitors included Cassandra Ann Walker
1896
The Shyppe (cat. no. 1211, panel, £3 3s.); Klimeny (cat. no. 1216, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included Gwendoline Buckler
1896
St George and Merrie England (cat. no. 1212, panel, £4 4s.).
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
1896
Bien Aimée (cat. no. 1213, £30 10s.); Age and the Angel of Death (cat. no. 1235, low relief, illustrated on p. 123, £52 10s., also for sale in marble £210).
Exhibitors included Robert Anning Bell
1896
Ariadne (cat. no. 1214, coloured relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1896
'Happy in beauty, life and love, and everything' (cat. no. 1215, overmantle relief, for sale in marble £52 10s., in metal £36 15s.).
Exhibitors included M.L. Simpson
1896
Book Cover (cat. no. 1217, silver relief, not for sale); Casket (cat. no. 1226, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Florence Harriet Steele
1896
George Clarke, Esq. (cat. no. 1219, bronze medallion, not for sale); Silver Bottle (cat. no. 1225, £15).
Exhibitors included William Goscombe John
1896
The Glamour of the Rose (cat. no. 1220, relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Alfred E. Lewis
1896
Design for a Letter Box (cat. no. 1222, bronze, £20); Design for Electric Light (cat. no. 1233, illustrated on p. 123, £30).
Exhibitors included Fernand Khnopff
1896
Vivian (cat. no. 1223, bronze, £100).
Exhibitors included George Tinworth
1896
The Song of Miriam (cat. no. 1229, illustrated on p. 124, £80).
Exhibitors included Thomas Richard Essex
1896
The late Christopher James Thomas, Mayor of Bristol (cat. no. 1236, terracotta bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Oliver Wheatley
1896
Prometheus (cat. no. 1237, low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
1896
Bronze Head (cat. no. 1238, study, £35).
Exhibitors included Gustav Natorp
1896
Atalanta (cat. no. 1286, bronze statue, illustrated on p. 111, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John
1896
Zoology (cat. no. 1311, coloured plaster, £3 3s.); Medallion Portraits (cat. no. 1312, not for sale).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896', 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_1269522754, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
