Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1891
End Date: 1891
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,281 works exhibited.
£7,603 2s. 0d. receipts for sales.
90,594 visitors (based on paid admissions - first year of Sunday opening).
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, III, IV, VI, VII and IX.
Participants
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1891
The Late Edwin Waugh, the Lancashire poet (cat. no. 1225, plaster bust, £26 5s.);
H.M. The Queen, model for the Jubilee bust for the Kensington Town Hall (cat. no. 1231, £42).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
Dynamene (cat. no. 1234, terracotta, £5 5s.); The Worship of Bacchus (cat. no. 1263, design for bronze panel, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
A Young Vulcan (cat. no. 1240, plaster, bronzed, £36 15s., or £136 10s. in bronze); A Little Student (cat. no. 1241, plaster, bronzed, sketch p. 114, £31 10s., or £136 10s. in bronze).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1891
Her First Bracelet, marble bust (cat. no. 1227, sketch, p. 115, £42)
Exhibitors included Joseph De Bruyn
1891
You Love Me! (cat. no. 1227, marble bust on bronze pedestal, £26 5s.); My Friend, Mr Vinoelst (cat. no. 1230, plaster bust, not for sale); Spring (cat. no. 1258, original terracotta bust, £6 6s.); Summer (cat. no. 1279, original terracotta bust, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Emily Addis Fawcett
1891
La Belle Orqueilleuse (cat. no. 1228, plaster, bronzed, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Florence Newman
1891
Miss Florrie Verrall (cat. no. 1229, plaster, bronzed, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henry Teixeira de Mattos
1891
Study of a Negro Head - Mondombé Tribe (cat. no. 1232, plaster, bronzed, £18).
Exhibitors included Henry Bain-Smith or Bainsmith
1891
J. McWhirter, ARA (cat. no. 1233, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Emeline P. Steinthal
1891
A Worker (cat. no. 1235, terracotta, not for sale); Darby (cat. no. 1238, plaster bust, £20); Joan (cat. no. 1239, plaster bust, £20).
Exhibitors included (Charles) Louis Schots
1891
Bust of Girl (cat. no. 1236, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edwin Roscoe Mullins
1891
Love's Token (cat. no. 1242, marble statuette, sketch p. 114, £157 10s.); Robin Goodfellow (cat. no. 1245, plaster, bronzed, 'I am sent with broom before / To sweep the dust behind the door', in bronze £105, or in marble £126).
Exhibitors included (August Alexander) Ferdinand Junck
1891
Rosalind - As You Like It (cat. no. 1243, marble statuette, £120).
Exhibitors included William Henry Prosser
1891
Boy's Head (cat. no. 1244, plaster, bronzed, £15); A Bluecoat Boy (cat. no. 1273, plaster, bronzed, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Kate Tizard
1891
Hypnos (cat. no. 1247, plaster, bronzed, £20).
Exhibitors included (Alfred) Adrian Jones
1891
The Last Arrow (cat. no. 1248, bronze, sketch p. 114, £270).
Exhibitors included Emmeline Halse
1891
Babyhood (cat. no. 1249, studies in wax, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Frank Fisher
1891
Love's Beacon (cat. no. 1250, terracotta, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
1891
Study for Portrait Medallion (cat. no. 1251, plaster, not for sale); Portrait Medallion (cat. no. 1259, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
1891
The Baby (cat. no. 1252, bronze, cast by the artist, £21); Our Bessie (cat. no. 1253, bronze, cast by the artist, £31).
Exhibitors included Sophia Rosamond Praeger
1891
A Neapolitan (cat. no. 1254, plaster, bronzed, £12 12s.).
Exhibitors included Harry Dixon
1891
Lioness and Cub (cat. no. 1255, bronze, copyright reserved, £20); Bear Cubs Playing (cat. no. 1256, bronze, copyright reserved, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1891
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Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1891
Peace (cat. no. 1257, bronze, sketch p. 115, £735).
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
1891
Encore (cat. no. 1260, modelled in wax, £12 12s.); The Last Load (cat. no. 1264, relief in plaster, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Hannah Bolton Barlow
1891
Spring (cat. no. 1261, terracotta panel, £9 9s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1891
Cupid (cat. no. 1262, relief in copper, £25); Dance (cat. no. 1274, marble relief, £25).
Exhibitors included George Tinworth
1891
Joseph and Mary Searching for the Child Jesus (cat. no. 1265, terracotta relief, sketch p. 9, £20).
Exhibitors included Emma Marie Cadwallader-Guild
1891
Endymion (cat. no. 1266, 'Yet Judge it better indeed / To seek in life, as now I know I sought / Some fair impossible love, which slays our life, / Some fair ideal raised too high for man', Epic of Hades, Lewis Morris, £5 5s., or in bronze £21); An Indian Rider (cat. no. 1268, plaster, bronzed, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Mary Pownall (Bromet)
1891
A Lover of Nature (cat. no. 1267, plaster statuette, 'For the dear Lord who loveth us / He made and loveth all', Coleridge, £25).
Exhibitors included Thomas Stirling Lee
1891
The Kiss of Dawn (cat. no. 1269, plaster, relief, sketch p. 113, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Harry Bates
1891
The Story of Psyche (cat. no. 1270, marble panel, sketch p. 113, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Thomas Richard Essex
1891
Simplicity (cat. no. 1271, plaster, bronzed, £21).
Exhibitors included Joseph Rogerson
1891
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP (cat. no. 1281, marble bust, £84).
Exhibitors included May Heatherington Barker
1891
Design for a medal - obverse, a portrait; reverse, St Martin and the Beggar (cat. no. 1277).
Exhibitors included George Blackall Simonds
1891
The Four Seasons (cat. no. 1276, panel for a mantelpiece, copper low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
1891
The Four Elements (cat. no. 1275, panels in plaster, not for sale); Zephyrus (cat. no. 1278, bronze relief, not for sale); Boy on Dolphin (cat. no. 1280, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
1891
An Athlete (cat. no. 1272, bronze statuette, £15).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1891', 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_1269522836, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
