Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the thirteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1883
End Date: 1883
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,636 works exhibited.
£8,472 10s. 6d. receipts for sales.
63,464 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 John Thorp
1883
Teaching Obedience (cat. no. 1599, £105).
Exhibitors included Aristide Louis Fontana
1883
The Pensierosa (cat. no. 1600, marble, £60).
Exhibitors included William Mynorydd Davis
1883
The Late Sir Hugh Owen (cat. no. 1601, not for sale); John Roberts, Esq., MP (cat. no. 1610, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Holding II
1883
Zoology (cat. no. 1602, £5 5s.); Ornithology (cat. no. 1608, £5 5s.); Sissy (cat. no. 1622, terracotta model, £2 2s.).
Exhibitors included Robert. H Macleod
1883
Autumn (cat. no. 1603, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included E. Vander Straeten
1883
Une Fantaisie (cat. no. 1604, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1883
A Mother's Love (cat. no. 1605, £50).
Exhibitors included Owen Smith
1883
Youthful Bacchus (cat. no. 1606, £25); Red Riding Hood (cat. no. 1633, bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included A. Battersby
1883
Knitting (cat. no. 1607, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1883
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (cat. no. 1609, marble, £157 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1883
An Eastern Girl (cat. no. 1611, £6 6s.); George Peacock, Esq., RGA (cat. no. 1626, not for sale); J. D. Rich, Esq., Postmaster, Liverpool (cat. no. 1627, not for sale); The Late William Simpson, Esq. (cat. no. 1635, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Randolph Caldecott
1883
Feeling the Calves (cat. no. 1612, £10 10s.); Huntsman and Hounds (cat. no. 1617, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Hannah Bolton Barlow
1883
Old Mortality's Pony (cat. no. 1613, terracotta, £7 7s.); In an Orchard (cat. no. 1614, terracotta panel, £21).
Exhibitors included Alice Mary Chaplin
1883
At Bay (cat. no. 1615, terracotta, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included William Henry Hamilton Trood
1883
Inquisitive Puppies (cat. no. 1616, terracotta, £15 15s.); Coveted Bone (cat. no. 1622, £21).
Exhibitors included John Pickles
1883
Portrait (cat. no. 1618, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Louis or Luigi Fabbrucci
1883
The Princes in the Tower (cat. no. 1619, terracotta group, £150).
Exhibitors included George Tinworth
1883
Meeting of Jacob and Joseph (cat. no. 1620, £175).
Exhibitors included F.S.A. Richardson
1883
Boy with Rabits (cat. no. 1621, £8 8s.); Child Feeding Chickens (cat. no. 1623, £8 8s.).
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
1883
The Dancing Lesson (cat. no. 1624, terracotta group, £2 10s.).
Exhibitors included Arthur John Smith
1883
Tito - 'Romola' by George Eliot (cat. no. 1629, £17 17s.).
Exhibitors included J.C. Low
1883
Plastic Sketch - 'The Pedagogue' (cat. no. 1630, £5 5s.); American Art Tile (cat. no. 1613, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1883
Maternal Anxiety (cat. no. 1632, £4 4s.).
Exhibitors included William Rowlands Ingram
1883
La Coquette (cat. no. 1634, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Marion Ferguson
1883
The Infant Orpheus (cat. no. 1636, marble relief, £50).
Exhibitors included A.J. Walters
1883
£320
Jepthah's Daughter, model for statuette, cat. no. 1628
Citing this record
'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the thirteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1883', 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_1278346399, accessed 22 Sep 2023]
