Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
End Date: 1893
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,242 works exhibited.
£6,297 9s. 0d. receipts for sales.
66,427 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 Edith Bateson
1893
Mrs W. H. Bateson (cat. no. 1155, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
1893
Portrait Bust (cat. no. 1156, not for sale); Design for a Wall Fountain (cat. no. 1192, illustrated on p. 119, not for sale); Panel for Chimney-piece, 'The Night is Far Spent' (cat. no. 1237, illustrated on p. 120, £20).
Exhibitors included Emma Marie Cadwallader-Guild
1893
Henry Thode, Esq. (cat. no. 1157, not for sale); G. F. Watts, Esq., RA (cat. no. 1227, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included James Nesfield Forsyth
1893
Percival Gaskell, Esq. (cat. no. 1158, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
1893
Arthur J. Ryle, Esq. (cat. no. 1159, bust, not for sale); Love the Conquerer (cat. no. 1186, bronze statuette, not for sale); çãÝñèç (cat. no. 1187, bronze panel for a tomb, not for sale); Memorial Tablet to Evan Evans (cat. no. 1196, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Arthur Burnard
1893
The Tennis Player (cat. no. 1160, in bronzed plaster £20, in marble £50).
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1893
Joan of Arc (cat. no. 1161, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick Winter
1893
The late Right Honorable. Sir R. N. Fowler, Bart., MP (cat. no. 1162, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Evangeline Stirling
1893
Miss Beale, Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College (cat. no. 1163, bust, not for sale). This work was also shown at the Royal Academy in 1894 (cat. no. 1792).
Exhibitors included Charlotte Hunton
1893
Bacchante (cat. no. 1164, head, not for sale); Vanity (cat. no. 1181, statuette, £30).
Exhibitors included Beatrice Angle
1893
Medusa (cat. no. 1165, £25).
Exhibitors included Frederick Lewis
1893
A Snake in the Grass (cat. no. 1166, plaster, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Richard Essex
1893
The late Right Hon. W. H. Smith, MP, of the Treasury (cat. no. 1167, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henry Charles Fehr
1893
Morning (cat. no. 1167, statuette, not for sale); Favourites (cat. no. 1184, statue, illustrated on p. 118, £300).
Exhibitors included Harry Dixon
1893
A Cat's Head (cat. no. 1168, bronze, not for sale); Fox and Prey - cire perdue (cat. no. 1175, bronze, £21).
Exhibitors included Kate Sowerby
1893
Horse and Trooper, 17th Lancers, Resting (cat. no. 1169, group in wax, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Henry Monsell Furse
1893
A Cat (cat. no. 1170, statuette, part of an Andiron, in plaster £5 5s., in bronze £15 15s.); The Annunciation (cat. no. 1229, low relief, in plaster £5 5s., in bronze £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Ernest Sichel
1893
Perfume Cup (cat. no. 1171, bronze, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Alice Mary Chaplin
1893
Hounds in Full Cry (cat. no. 1172, plaster group, £25).
Exhibitors included A.B. Saunders
1893
George Alexander, Esq. (cat. no. 1173, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Robert Stark
1893
A Kid (cat. no. 1174, bronze, £30); John Peel (cat. no. 1177, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Henry Longmaid
1893
Eve (cat. no. 1178, not for sale) .
Exhibitors included Victor Emmanuel Boucneau
1893
The Young Juggler (cat. no. 1179, statue in bronze, £75); Friends (Group) (cat. no. 1235, £50).
Exhibitors included Ludwig Cauer
1893
The Water Carrier (cat. no. 1180, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
1893
Clytie (cat. no. 1182, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
1893
Study of a Boy's Head (cat. no. 1183, £31 10s.); Fate-Led (cat. no. 1185, marble statue, illustrated on p. 118, £315); Age and the Angel of Death (cat. no. 1231, plaster, not for sale); 'In the Sere and yellow leaf' (cat. no. 1232, bronze, £42).
Exhibitors included Esther Mary Moore
1893
Phantasie-stück (cat. no. 1188, statuette, £25).
Exhibitors included Amy Cobham-Brewer
1893
Salamanders (cat. no. 1189, panel, £5).
Exhibitors included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
1893
Cressida (cat. no. 1190, terracotta hand in coloured clays, £8 8s.); Boy and Lantern (cat. no. 1193, Della Robbia ware, £15 15s.); St John - after Donatello (cat. no. 1194, Della Robbia ware, not for sale); Baby Head (cat. no. 1213, Della Robbia ware, £10 10s.); Portrait Bust (cat. no. 1214, Della Robbia ware, not for sale); Head of a Girl (cat. no. 1215, Della Robbia ware, not for sale); Pan the Piper (cat. no. 1218, £5 5s.); Master Percy Spielmann (cat. no. 1217, low relief, Della Robbia ware, not for sale); Pan the Piper (cat. no. 1218, Della Robbia ware, white glaze, £4 4s.); 'The Infant Muling and Puking in the Nurse's Arms' (cat. no. 1360, illustrated on p. 111).
Exhibitors included W. Cardwell Bibby
1893
Pan (cat. no. 1191, low relief, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included James Havenhand
1893
Andromache sorrowing the loss of Hector (cat. no. 1195, hand mirror in silver repousse, £40).
Exhibitors included Reginald E. Arnold
1893
Decorative Panel (cat. no. 1197, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Sydney Lee
1893
Medallion for Preservation of Life at Sea (cat. no. 1198, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Bryan Hook
1893
Mrs Bryan Hook (cat. no. 1199, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Effie (Euphrosyne) Stillman
1893
Esther (cat. no. 1200, bronze bust, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Stirling Lee
1893
The Children of Light (cat. no. 1201, model for repoussé copper panel for chimney piece, not for sale); Brotherly Love (cat. no. 1221, doors for the Adelphi Bank, Liverpool, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Somerscales
1893
Design for Spandrels for a School of Art (cat. no. 1202, wax, £15).
Exhibitors included Lucy Gwendolen Williams
1893
Hypathia (cat. no. 1203, head, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included Rose Le Quesne
1893
Spring (cat. no. 1204, not for sale); Dancing Girls - Design for Mantelpiece (cat. no. 1210, low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Nelia Casella
1893
Octava Spera (cat. no. 1205, coloured wax, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
1893
Probable Starters (cat. no. 1206, wax, £15 15s.); Showing his Points (cat. no. 1208, wax, £12 12s.).
Exhibitors included George James Frampton
1893
Mysteriarch (cat. no. 1207, in bronze £105, in marble £250).
Exhibitors included Ella Casella
1893
St George (cat. no. 1209, coloured wax, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1893
'With modest eyes downcast' (cat. no. 1211, marble head, £105).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1893
Mrs Wilson (cat. no. 1212, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Dorothea Boyse
1893
Child's Head (cat. no. 1219, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included George Blackall Simonds
1893
Perseus the Destroyer (cat. no. 1220, bronze statuette, £35).
Exhibitors included H. T. Shâfer
1893
Forsaken (cat. no. 1223, bronze relief, £50).
Exhibitors included Florence Newman
1893
Mrs Wright (cat. no. 1224, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
1893
The Countess Suardi (cat. no. 1225, low relief, not for sale); Mrs Bonus (cat. no. 1226, low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick Emil E. Schenck
1893
Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture - Panel for the Municipal Council Chamber, Bath (cat. no. 1228, not for sale); The Elements - Fire, Air, Earth and Water - Panel for the Municipal Council Chamber, Bath) (cat. no. 1234, illustrated on p. 119, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1893
J. McClure Hamilton, Esq. (cat. no. 1230, illustrated on p. 110, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Edward Taylerson
1893
The Blessed Damosel (cat. no. 1233, relief, £35); Death in Love (cat. no. 1238, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Lizzie Alexander
1893
A Study (cat. no. 1236, low relief, £2 2s.).
Exhibitors included George Cowell
1893
Ishmael (cat. no. 1240, statue, , illustrated on p. 120, in marble £500, in bronze £350).
Exhibitors included Giovanni Fontana
1893
Preparing for Bed (cat. no. 1241, marble statuette, £115).
Exhibitors included Anselmo Galmuzzi
1893
First Sea Trip (cat. no. 1242, £100).
Exhibitors included Edwin Roscoe Mullins
1893
Cosmus (cat. no. 1323, illustrated on p. 110).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893', 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_1269522816, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
