Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fourteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1884
End Date: 1884
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 2,280 works exhibited (the year the extension to the Walker Art Gallery was completed).
£12,313 7s. 6d. receipts for sales.
105,774 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 Horace Montford
1884
Eve (cat. no. 2214, terracotta, on Screen in Room B, £3 3s.); Proserpine (cat. no. 2227, bronze, £30); The Infant Psyche (cat. no. 2236, £38); A Bacchante Resting after the Dance (cat. no. 2245, terracotta, £26 5s.).
Exhibitors included James Milo Ap Griffith
1884
Sabrina (cat. no. 2215, exhibited in Room C including marble pedestal, £500); Summer Flowers (cat. no. 2217, terracotta, exhibited in Room E, £157 10s.); Ione (cat. no. 2229, £57 15s.); Highlander Carrying Home Dead Deer (cat. no. 2231, wax, £63); Little Innocence (cat. no. 2272, marble bust, £42); My Guardian (cat. no. 2278, terracotta, £168); The Ancient Woodman (cat. no. 2280, bronze, exhibited in Room O, £840).
Exhibitors included Walter Gilbert
1884
Icarus (cat. no. 2216, exhibited in Room D, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. Keyser
1884
Titania (cat. no. 2218, exhibited in Room E, £100).
Exhibitors included (Aimé) Jules Dalou
1884
Mother and Child (cat. no. 2219, exhibited in Room E, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Alexander Paterson MacBride
1884
Sir William Wallace (cat. no. 2220, exhibited in Room F, £80).
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
1884
Sketch Model of Colossal Statue of Cardinal Cullen erected in the Cathederal, Dublin (cat. no. 2221, exhibited in Room G, not for sale); Bust of Sir George Hodson, Bart (cat. no. 2238, not for sale); Model Design for a Statue of O'Connell (cat. no. 2274, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1884
General Sir Frederick Roberts, KCB (cat. no. 2224, exhibited in Room I, £36 15s.); George Grote, the Greek Historian (cat. no. 2230, £31 10s.); Sir W. Fairbairn, Bart. (cat. no. 2270, £36 15s.).
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
1884
Dr Richard Congreve (cat. no. 2225, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1884
E. R. Russell, Esq. (cat. no. 2228, not for sale); William Robert, Esq. (cat. no. 2258, not for sale); Albert Hartland, Esq. (cat. no. 2262, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
1884
Study of a Head (cat. no. 2232, terracotta, £3 3s.); Playmates (cat. no. 2244, terracotta, £3 3s.).
Exhibitors included Alice Mary Chaplin
1884
Fireside Friends (cat. no. 2233, terracotta, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included L. Henrietta Brown
1884
A Fisherman (cat. no. 2235, plaster, £2 2s.); O. H. M. S. (cat. no. 2261, £5 5s.); Sophia Primrose, afterwards Lady Thornhill (cat. no. 2269, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included H.R.I. Gleichen
1884
Statue of the Late Lord Beaconsfield (cat. no. 2239, not for sale); Miss Mary Anderson (cat. no. 2265, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included G. Fiaschi
1884
The Late Lord Frederick Cavendish (cat. no. 2240, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Mark Roche
1884
'And Sweeter far is Death than Life to me that long to go' - Tennyson's 'May Queen' (cat. no. 2241, £84).
Exhibitors included Gertrude Crockford
1884
Water Baby (cat. no. 2242, terracotta bust, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included Walter Roche
1884
A Hunting we will go (cat. no. 2243, £15 15s.); Then Weary Homeward we Return (cat. no. 2247, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Archie Macgregor
1884
Study from a German Workhouse (cat. no. 2246, £26 6s.).
Exhibitors included Beatrice A. M. Brown
1884
'Still the little maid would have her will, and answer, "We are seven"' (cat. no. 2249, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Stirling Lee
1884
A Study (cat. no. 2250, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Henrietta Marcus
1884
La Fileuse (cat. no. 2259, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included George Tinworth
1884
Haman and Mordecai (cat. no. 2260, £31 10s.); Rebekah at the Well (cat. no. 2271, £15 15s.); The Man God (cat. no. 2273, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Joseph Rogerson
1884
Rt Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP (cat. no. 2263, £84).
Exhibitors included P. Kummer
1884
Her Favorite [sic] (cat. no. 2264, terracotta, £50).
Exhibitors included Aristide Luigi Fabbrucci
1884
First Love (cat. no. 2266, terracotta group, £60).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1884
A Passing Glance (cat. no. 2267, £31 10s.).
Exhibitors included Henry George Alexander Holiday
1884
Jacob's Ladder (cat. no. 2268, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Pickles
1884
An Ideal Bust (cat. no. 2275, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Andrew Laidlaw
1884
Bust of Mrs Steel (cat. no. 2276, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. Curtois
1884
Child Praying (cat. no. 2279, marble, exhibited in Room N, £420).
Exhibitors included W. White
1884
General 'Chinese' Gordon (cat. no. 2226, £2 2s.).
Exhibitors included E. Griffith
1884
William Rees, DD, late of Liverpool (cat. no. 2237, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Wilson
1884
Pan (cat. no. 2277, exhibited in Room M, £35).
Exhibitors included James Farrell
1884
Charles Stewart Parnell, Esq., MP, (cat. no. 2222, exhibited in Room G, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Gibson
1884
The Three Graces (cat. no. 2223, exhibited in Room H, not for sale - exhibited posthumously).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1884
Child's Head (cat. no. 2248, terracotta, £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included John Throp
1884
Prince Alamayu, Son of the late Emperor Theodore of Abyssinia (cat. no. 2256 £52 10s.) Ophelia (cat. no. 2257 £52. 10s)
Citing this record
'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fourteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1884', 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_1278346433, accessed 03 Jun 2023]
