Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the eighteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1888
End Date: 1888
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,412 works exhibited.
£6,461 6s. 0d. receipts for sales.
71,495 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).
Organizing Institution or Venue
Exhibitors included Norbury, Paterson and Co. Ltd.
1888
Design for the Southport Lifeboat Disaster Memorial (cat. no. 1375, plaster, not for sale); The late David Lewis, Esq. (cat. no. 1412, not for sale).
Organized by Walker Art Gallery
1888
Participants
Exhibitors included Joseph Rogerson
1888
A different treatment of the subject of one of the St George's Hall Panels (cat. no. 1364, not for sale).
Exhibitors included F.A. Westcot
1888
A Daughter of the South (cat. no. 1365, terracotta bust, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
1888
Portrait Bust (cat. no. 1366, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Beatrice A. M. Brown
1888
A Druidess (cat. no. 1367, £26 5s.); The Foster Mother (cat. no. 1388, bronze, £157 10s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Richard Essex
1888
George Shawcross Pendleton, Esq. (cat. no. 1368, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Walter M. Kemp
1888
Kathleen (cat. no. 1369, £45).
Exhibitors included James Farrell
1888
Graziella (cat. no. 1370, marble, £36 15s.).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1888
Sweet Thoughts (cat. no. 1371, marble, £40); Study of a Child's Head (cat. no. 1376, plaster, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included E. P. Blundell
1888
Head of Demosthenes (cat. no. 1372, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Captain C. A. Harrison
1888
The Martyrdom of St Sebastian (cat. no. 1373, plaster, price in marble listed as £200); 'Give me a Penny!' (cat. no. 1394, terracotta, £21).
Exhibitors included W. White
1888
The Late Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown (cat. no. 1374, plaster, not for sale); Herne the Hunter (cat. no. 1404, silvered group, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
1888
Bust of the late James Broughton, Esq., for nine years Chorus Master of the Leeds Musical Festivals (cat. no. 1377, £1 1s.); Bust of a Child, study from Life (cat. no. 1380, plaster, £2 2s.); Original Bust of Prof. Ruskin (cat. no. 1382, plaster, £1 1s.); Scythe Smith - Manly Pride (cat. no. 1386, plaster, £30); Statuette of the late W. E. Forster, Esq., MP (cat. no. 1393, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1888
W. J. J. C. Bond, Esq. (cat. no. 1378, not for sale); Lionel, Son of James Ashcroft, Esq. (cat. no. 1379, terracotta, not for sale); Amy, daughter of James Ashcroft, Esq. (cat. no. 1381, terracotta, not for sale); James Ashcroft, Esq. (cat. no. 1383, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
1888
'This little piggie went to market' (cat. no. 1384, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1888
Young England (cat. no. 1384A, terracotta, £21).
Exhibitors included James Havard Thomas
1888
Cardinal Manning (cat. no. 1385, 'executed direct, in Marble from personal sittings given by his Eminence', £105).
Exhibitors included Ed. O. Griffith Junior
1888
The Wounded Roman (cat. no. 1387); Boadicea (cat. no. 1406, plaster, £25).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
1888
Dancing in the Temple of Diana (cat. no. 1389, terracotta, £3 3s.).
Exhibitors included Henrietta Marcus
1888
Design for Silver Fruit Dish (cat. no. 1390, plaster, £20).
Exhibitors included E. Toso
1888
Cabinet in Walnut, with Bas-reliefs in Boxwood, representing Peace, War, Science, History, Painting, and Sculpture (cat. no. 1391, £400).
Exhibitors included C. Piccini
1888
Love (cat. no. 1392, low-relief carved in wood, £32).
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
1888
H. B. Ferguson, Esq., of Dundee (cat. no. 1395, bronze, not for sale); Frank Griffin, Esq., of California, USA (cat. no. 1397, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
1888
Threatened Reprisals (cat. no. 1396, bronze, £150); A Worthy Representative (cat. no. 1405, bronze, not for sale); Charmed (cat. no. 1407, bronze, £15).
Exhibitors included George Edward Wade
1888
Lieut-Col Miles Sandys, MP (cat. no. 1398, bronze, not for sale); Il Pensieroso (cat. no. 1401, bronze, not for sale); L'Allegro (cat. no. 1406, bronze, not for sale); The Sick Playmate (cat. no. 1410, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1888
Folly (cat. no. 1399, bronze, £210).
Exhibitors included William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1888
Three Score Years and Ten (cat. no. 1400, bronze, £35); Pigeons (cat. no. 1409, bronze, £75); The late John Palgrave Simpson, Esq. (cat. no. 1410, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Beatrice Avyle
1888
Bacchante (cat. no. 1402, bronze, £10 10s.); Modesty (cat. no. 1403, bronze, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included Henry Alfred Pegram
1888
Charity (cat. no. 1408, bronze panel, £25).
Exhibitors included W. Cardwell Bibby
1888
A Comic Muse (cat. no. 1411, bronzed plaster, £15).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the eighteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1888', 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_1278346698, accessed 30 May 2023]
