Autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the eleventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1881
End Date: 1881
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,435 works exhibited.
£12,210 11s. 0d. receipts for sales.
72,919 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 Giovanni Fontana
1881
La Fedelta (cat. no. 1413, £262 10s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1881
A Shout of Victory after the Race (cat. no. 1414, bronze, £200); The First Prize (cat. no. 1417, terracotta bust, £21).
Exhibitors included Evangeline Stirling
1881
Irene, a Study (cat. no. 1415, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Tinworth
1881
'While men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way' (cat. no. 1416, not for sale); Triumphal Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (cat. no. 1425, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George H. Sand
1881
Summer (cat. no. 1418, £100).
Exhibitors included John Warrington Wood
1881
William Beamont, Esq. (cat. no. 1419, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1881
Frolic (cat. no. 1420, £4 4s.).
Exhibitors included James Farrell
1881
Sorrow (cat. no. 1421, £25); Joy (cat. no. 1423, £25).
Exhibitors included John Adrian Raemaekers
1881
The Rt Hon. the Earl of Beaconsfield (cat. no. 1424, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick Winter
1881
Little Rosebud (Ideal Bust) (cat. no. 1426, £31 10s.); Lily of the Valley (Ideal Bust) (cat. no. 1430, £31 10s.).
Exhibitors included George Blackall Simonds
1881
The Dead Medusa (cat. no. 1427, £120).
Exhibitors included Francesco Fabi-Altini
1881
The Genius of Harmony (cat. no. 1428, £105); David before the flight, with the Giant Goliath (cat. no. 1434, £735).
Exhibitors included Henrietta Marcus
1881
Margaret (cat. no. 1429, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included John Lawlor
1881
A Morning Rehearsal (cat. no. 1431, £60).
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
1881
Tired Playmates (cat. no. 1432, £70).
Exhibitors included William Rowlands Ingram
1881
Love's Messenger (cat. no. 1433, £100).
Exhibitors included Henry George Alexander Holiday
1881
Sleep (cat. no. 1435, not for sale).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the eleventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1881', 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_1278345892, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
