Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1892
End Date: 1892
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,393 works exhibited.
£5,132 8s. 6d. receipts for sales.
69,703 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).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture shown in rooms I, II, VII, IX and VIII (numbers correspond with room sequence given in the catalogue).
Participants
Exhibitors included Alice Thornycroft
1892
My Mother (cat. no. 1319, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edith Bateson
1892
Jessica (cat. no. 1320, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
1892
Clematis (cat. no. 1321, bust, not for sale); The Return from Fishing (cat. no. 1327, panel, £6 6s.); The Wounded Stag (cat. no. 1331, group in wax, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Frank Bowcher
1892
Medal of Award for the School of Painting, Pelham Street, South Kensington, London (cat. no. 1324, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Joseph De Bruyn
1892
The Young Sailor (cat. no. 1321, plaster bust, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1892
Shelley Memorial (cat. no. 1322, presented to University College, Oxford, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edwin Roscoe Mullins
1892
Comus (cat. no. 1323, bronze group, not for sale); To know - to be - to do (cat. no. 1371, terracotta panels, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included James Nesfield Forsyth
1892
Crabbed Age (cat. no. 1317, bronze, £31 10s., plaster £15 15s.); A Boy's Head (cat. no. 1341, £31 10s.).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1892
Frolic (cat. no. 1334, marble statuette, £42); Boy Holding Fish (cat. no. 1335, statuette plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Henry Monsell Furse
1892
An Irish Wolfhound (cat. no. 1333, plaster £5, bronze £18 18s.).
Exhibitors included Ernest Sichel
1892
The Dragon Ship (cat. no. 1332, bronze statuette, £20).
Exhibitors included Ella Casella
1892
Diana (cat. no. 1329, coloured wax low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Nelia Casella
1892
Victory (cat. no. 1328, coloured wax low relief, not for sale); Luna - after an early Italian design (cat. no. 1330, coloured wax low relief, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Emmeline Halse
1892
Studies of Babies (cat. no. 1326, £5 5s.); Isabelle (cat. no. 1336, model in wax, £5 5s.); Babyhood (cat. no. 1347, studies in wax, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Emily Griffith
1892
Dawn (cat. no. 1325, marble relief, not for sale); Marble Medallion (cat. no. 1375, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henry W. Page
1892
Medallion in bronze of the late Sir Richard F. Burton (cat. no. 1345, not for sale); Design for Lid of Casket (cat. no. 1354, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
1892
Young Horses - Barnet Fair (cat. no. 1344, £10 10s.; Carting Sand in France (cat. no. 1380, relief, £5 5s.); The Goal (cat. no. 1385, frieze, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Edward Taylerson
1892
Christmas Morn (cat. no. 1343, marble relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Oliver Wheatley
1892
When Toil should Cease (cat. no. 1342, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1892
Perdita (cat. no. 1340, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
1892
The Mammoth Hunter (cat. no. 1339, £30, in bronze £50).
Exhibitors included Isabel de Steiger
1892
A Toadstool (cat. no. 1339, wax-clay, £2 2s.).
Exhibitors included Alice Mary Chaplin
1892
Tit Bits (cat. no. 1338, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. Constant Vinoelst
1892
Triumph of Bacchus (cat. no. 1337, terracotta group, £31 10s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
1892
Miss A. Broke (cat. no. 1357, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
1892
Sketch Model for Portrait Bust (cat. no. 1356, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Mark Rogers Junior
1892
Medea and Aeson (cat. no. 1355, terracotta models of medallions for an oak cabinet, £6 6s.); Silvia (cat. no. 1381, terracotta bust, £50).
Exhibitors included William Hamo Thornycroft
1892
Portrait Medal (cat. no. 1353, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Robert Anning Bell
1892
Harvest (cat. no. 1352, panel, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Effie (Euphrosyne) Stillman
1892
Medallion Portrait (cat. no. 1351, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Goscombe John
1892
Study of a Head (cat. no. 1350, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Paul Newman
1892
Old Corporal (cat. no. 1349, plaster, £10 10s., or bronze £21).
Exhibitors included F. Millwood
1892
Pointer Puppies Heads (cat. no. 1348, £4 4s.).
Exhibitors included E. C. Billows
1892
Who Goes There? (cat. no. 1346, plaster relief, £3 3s.).
Exhibitors included David McGill
1892
Hero and Leander (cat. no. 1369, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Paul Raphael Montford
1892
Jacob Wrestling with an Angel (cat. no. 1358, group, bronzed, prize group RA medal, £300); Nyanthe at the Fountain (cat. no. 1368, plaster, bronzed, £10, in bronze £20).
Exhibitors included Alice Gates
1892
Head of a Socialist (cat. no. 1359, terracotta, £15 15s.); Molly Malone (cat. no. 1361, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Domenica Trentacoste
1892
Pia de Tolomei (cat. no. 1362, marble, £120).
Exhibitors included Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1892
Love Thoughts (cat. no. 1363, bust, £6 6s.); A Woman (cat. no. 1367, £21).
Exhibitors included Joseph William Swynnerton
1892
Spring (cat. no. 1366, statuette in plaster, not for sale, in bronze £2 10s.); Joseph Verdin, Esq. (cat. no. 1389, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Rose Le Quesne
1892
Scorners of the Ground (cat. no. 1364, low relief, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1892
A Wall Fountain (cat. no. 1365, bronze, £78 15s.).
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
1892
Children with Palm Branches (cat. no. 1370, relief in wax, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
1892
Medallion, 'The infant muling and puking the nurse's arms', Seven Ages of Man (cat. no. 1360, sketch p. 111, not for sale); The Crucifixion (cat. no. 1379, relief in plaster, not for sale); Decoration for a courtyard - 'The Seven Ages of Man' (cat. no. 1384, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Margaret C. T. G. Thurlow
1892
Sleeping Dog (cat. no. 1374, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Beatrice A. M. Brown
1892
The Pearl (cat. no. 1373, marble, £262 10s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick Lewis
1892
The Pride of his Dam (cat. no. 1383, copyright reserved, plaster, £).
Exhibitors included Henrietta Marcus
1892
L'Allegro (cat. no. 1387, plaster £5 5s.); Il Penseroso (cat. no. 1388, plaster, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included John Wilson
1892
Medusa (cat. no. 1382, bronze bust, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included George William Iliffe Wilson
1892
Model of a Wall Fountain (cat. no. 1372, in bronze and marble, sketch p. 112, £300).
Exhibitors included Henry Bain-Smith or Bainsmith
1892
Thomas Carlyle (cat. no. 1393, marble bust, £100).
Exhibitors included (August Alexander) Ferdinand Junck
1892
Widowhood (cat. no. 1390, marble bust, £15); The Spring of Maidenhead (cat. no. 1391, marble bust, £20); 'In Heaven and on Earth' (cat. no. 1392, marble relief, £15).
Exhibitors included Walter Merrett
1892
Happy Moments (cat. no. 1386, 'Art thou not dearer to mine eyes than light? / Dost thou not circulate thro' all my veins, / Mingle with life, and form my very soul?', Young, group in plaster, in marble £735, in bronze, £525).
Exhibitors included A. Gene
1892
A Preaching Friar (cat. no. 1378, terracotta, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Henry Gunthorp
1892
Young Mischief (cat. no. 1377, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
1892
Herodius (cat. no. 1376, marble, not for sale).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1892', 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_1269522825, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
