Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the twelfth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1882
End Date: 1882
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,589 works exhibited.
£7,868 3s. 6d. receipts for sales.
69,786 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 Adele R. B. Muller
1882
Leander (cat. no. 1553, £136 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1882
Charles McArdle, Esq. (cat. no. 1554, not for sale); Portrait of a Lady (cat. no. 1568, not for sale); Morris Charles Jones, Esq., FSA (cat. no. 1576, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Charles Bell Birch
1882
Margarete (cat. no. 1555, £63); Ruth (cat. no. 1559, £73 10s.).
Exhibitors included Andrew Laidlaw
1882
Bust of the late Joseph Steel (cat. no. 1560, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Rowlands Ingram
1882
The Very Reverend Arthur Henry Penhryn Stanley, late Dean of Westminster (cat. no. 1561, not for sale).
Exhibitors included J.C. Low
1882
An Old Man's Head (cat. no. 1562, £1 10s.); Copy of an Old Oak Panel (cat. no. 1563, £6 6s.); Landscape with Horses (cat. no. 1564, £5 5s.); Solitude (cat. no. 1565, £4 4s.).
Exhibitors included E. Vander Straeten
1882
Un Invite (cat. no. 1566, terracotta, £9 9s.); Un Fantasia (cat. no. 1571, terracotta, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
1882
The Vagabonds (cat. no. 1569, terracotta, £2 10s.).
Exhibitors included Peploe Brown
1882
Spanish Girl with Pitcher (cat. no. 1570, not for sale); Spanish Bull Fighter (cat. no. 1577, bronze, £12 12s.); Camel and Bedouin (cat. no. 1583, bronze, £26 5s.).
Exhibitors included Charles Bennet Lawes-Wittewronge
1882
Un Fantasia (cat. no. 1572, terracotta, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1882
A Mother's Love (cat. no. 1573, terracotta, £250; in marble, £500).
Exhibitors included Louis or Luigi Fabbrucci
1882
Waiting for Mama (cat. no. 1574, terracotta, £85).
Exhibitors included J. S. Raemaekers
1882
The Leisure Hour (cat. no. 1575, terracotta, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Alexander Paterson MacBride
1882
Medallion Portrait of a Lady (cat. no. 1578, model, to be executed in marble, not for sale); Medallion Portrait of a Gentlemen (cat. no. 1579, model, to be executed in marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henrietta Marcus
1882
Ariel (cat. no. 1578, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Hannah Bolton Barlow
1882
Work (cat. no. 1580, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Alice Mary Chaplin
1882
Kitten at Play (cat. no. 1581, £3 3s.); After a Ball (cat. no. 1582, £3 3s.).
Exhibitors included A. Bigland
1882
The late Edwin Bigland, Esq. (cat. no. 1584, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Barbara Smith
1882
Charlotte Corday (cat. no. 1585, plaster cast, £7 7s.; marble, £73 10s.).
Exhibitors included Joseph Durham
1882
Florizel Perdita (cat. no. 1586, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
1882
The Birth of Venus (cat. no. 1589, £50).
Citing this record
'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the twelfth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1882', 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_1278346280, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
