Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the sixteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1886
End Date: 1886
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,279 works exhibited.
£8,576 18s. 0d. receipts for sales.
80,000 visitors to all exhibitions.
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 was displayed in Rooms 2, 6, 7, 8 and in the Vestibule.
Participants
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1886
A Study (cat. no. 1258, bronze, £105); Major-General Sir Andrew Clarke, GC, MG, RE (cat. no. 1265, study for a colossal bust to be placed in front of the Town Hall, Singapore, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Thomas Stirling Lee
1886
Mrs Samuelson (cat. no. 1259, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Evangeline Stirling
1886
Meditation (cat. no. 1260, plaster, £3 3s.); A Rose Maiden (Medallion) (cat. no. 1266, £9 9s.).
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
1886
Abbe Liszt (cat. no. 1261, plaster, £0 5s.); S. Lee Bapty, Esq. (cat. no. 1264, plaster, £2 2s.).
Exhibitors included Joseph Biglioski
1886
Sunshine (cat. no. 1262, marble, £40).
Exhibitors included (Mary) Gertrude Spencer Stanhope
1886
Marguerite (cat. no. 1268, terracotta, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included L. Henrietta Brown
1886
The Song of the Syrens (cat. no. 1267, plaster, £26 5s.); A Colley (cat. no. 1273, bronze, £18 18s.).
Exhibitors included Henrietta Marcus
1886
Design for an Inkstand (cat. no. 1268, plaster, £2 2s.).
Exhibitors included J. Sinclair Fairfax
1886
'Satyrs and Sylvan boys were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green' (terracotta, £10 10s.); The Toilet (cat. no. 1275, terracotta, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Throp
1886
Bust of a Boy (cat. no. 1270, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Esther Mary Moore
1886
A Water Baby (cat. no. 1271, terracotta, £3).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1886
The late R. S. Bond (Artist) (cat. no. 1272, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edith M. Gisborne
1886
A Alexander, Esq. (cat. no. 1274, plaster, price in terracotta listed as £15).
Exhibitors included John Pickles
1886
The late Earl of Beaconsfield (cat. no. 1276, terracotta, £10).
Exhibitors included Andrew Laidlaw
1886
Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP (cat. no. 1277, terracotta, price in marble listed as £50).
Exhibitors included Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé
1886
Music (cat. no. 1278, terracotta, £30).
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
1886
David Playing before Saul (cat. no. 1279, terracotta, £20).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the sixteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1886', 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_1278346608, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
