Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the nineteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1889
End Date: 1889
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,560 works exhibited.
£8,083 3s. 6d. receipts for sales.
62,942 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 G. A. Harrison
1889
Major John Edmonstone Maonckton, late 2nd Madras Light Cavalry (cat. no. 1484, terracotta, not for sale); 'Non Angli sed Angelo' (cat. no. 1529, marble panel, £180); Portrait of a Lady (cat. no. 1559, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
1889
A Note of Triumph (cat. no. 1484, terracotta, £20); The Genius of Sculpture (cat. no. 1514, £30); The First Reflection (cat. no. 1532, group in terracotta, £30).
Exhibitors included Henry Cheffins Christie
1889
A Note of Triumph (cat. no. 1486, bronze group, £1600).
Exhibitors included Arthur George Atkinson
1889
Study (cat. no. 1487, marble statuette, £105).
Exhibitors included Samuel Fry
1889
Hero (cat. no. 1488, terracotta, £9 9s.); L'Éveillée (cat. no. 1519, £105).
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
1889
A Mud Lark (cat. no. 1489, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included William Rowlands Ingram
1889
The late Sir G. Jessel (cat. no. 1490, not for sale); H. S. Marks, Esq., RA (cat. no. 1525, bronze bust, not for sale); Ariel (cat. no. 1558, bronze, £210).
Exhibitors included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
1889
Head (cat. no. 1491, not for sale); The Rt Hon. Sir John Mowbray, Bart. MP (cat. no. 1498, not for sale); Edward Augustus Bond, Esq., CB, LLD, FSA (cat. no. 1499, not for sale); William Morris, Esq. (cat. no. 1501, not for sale); Rev. H. R. Haweis (cat. no. 1506, not for sale); Walter Gilbey, Esq. (cat. no. 1508, not for sale); Professor John Ruskin (cat. no. 1511, plaster bust, not for sale); The Ven. Archdeacon Farrar, DD (cat. no. 1513, not for sale); J. A. Froude, Esq. (cat. no. 1517, bust, not for sale); Ford Madox Brown, Esq. (cat. no. 1512, not for sale); A Dancer (cat. no. 1526, plaster, £73 10s., bronze, £105); John L. Toole, Esq. (cat. no. 1530, not for sale); Ernest Hart, Esq. (cat. no. 1534, not for sale); George Henry Pinckard, Esq. (cat. no. 1537, not for sale); George Grossmith, Esq. (cat. no. 1539, not for sale); The late Lord Iddesleigh (cat. no. 1540, bronze medallion, not for sale); Algernon Charles Swinburne, Esq. (cat. no. 1541, not for sale); Lord Halsbury, Lord Chancellor of England (cat. no. 1542, not for sale); General Sir Frederick Roberts (cat. no. 1545, bronze medallion, not for sale); Prof. W. H. Fowler, CB, LLD, FRS, FRCS, FLS (cat. no. 1548, not for sale); The late Lord Egerton of Tatton (cat. no. 1549, not for sale); The late Col. Duncan, CB, MP (cat. no. 1552, not for sale); Henry M. Stanley, Esq. (cat. no. 1554, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Archie Macgregor
1889
Prospects of Cold Water (cat. no. 1492, plaster £25, marble or bronze £65).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
1889
Fox Terrier Pup (cat. no. 1493, 10s.); 'Where young Acantha roam'd in thymy valley, Tending her milk-white goat, and gathering honey' (cat. no. 1551, £5 5s.); Reynard and his Prey (cat. no. 1553, £3 3s.); The Last of a Numerous Family (cat. no. 1555, £1 10s.).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1889
A Passing Glance (cat. no. 1494, marble, £31 10s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
1889
'Caught' (cat. no. 1495, marble or bronze, £200).
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
1889
'Lilith' (cat. no. 1496, bronze, £136 10s.); The Rt Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP (cat. no. 1550, executed from life, bronze, £80, marble, £130).
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
1889
The Singer (cat. no. 1497, £840).
Exhibitors included Ambrosia Theodora Tonnesen
1889
Forladt (cat. no. 1500, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1889
Going to School (cat. no. 1503, bronze, £105).
Exhibitors included William Robert Colton
1889
Percy Jackson, Esq. (cat. no. 1504, not for sale); Gretchen (cat. no. 1538, bronze, £15).
Exhibitors included John Wenlock Rollins
1889
Study of an Old Man (cat. no. 1505, bronzed, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included Alfred William Bowcher
1889
Hermes (cat. no. 1507, plaster bust, £7 7s.); Sylph (cat. no. 1557, £30).
Exhibitors included Kate Bannin
1889
A Study (cat. no. 1509, bust, not for sale); A Head (cat. no. 1536, not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Hamo Thornycroft
1889
Teucer (cat. no. 1510, bronze, £40).
Exhibitors included Charles Bell Birch
1889
Retaliation (cat. no. 1512, £105).
Exhibitors included R. H. Hartmann
1889
The Faun's Family (cat. no. 1516, bronze, £100); Neapolitan Fruit Seller (cat. no. 1524, £15).
Exhibitors included James Milo Ap Griffith
1889
Music and Dancing (cat. no. 1527, low relief, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Emmeline Halse
1889
Tired Out (cat. no. 1528, £20); Wild Rose (cat. no. 1535, £10).
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
1889
'Thine!' (cat. no. 1531, bronze bust, £30); Under the Cliffs (cat. no. 1533, bronze, £31 10s.).
Exhibitors included Henry Charles Fehr
1889
Ossian (cat. no. 1543, in plaster £10, in bronze £36).
Exhibitors included Emily Addis Fawcett
1889
Defiance (cat. no. 1544, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included Anna Davis
1889
'Ille robur et aes triplex circa pectus erat' (cat. no. 1546, £3 3s.).
Exhibitors included T. W. Rollins
1889
Bust (cat. no. 1547, bronzed bust, £7 7s.).
Exhibitors included Alphonse Van Beurden
1889
At the Fountain (cat. no. 1556, bronze, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. P. Blundell
1889
An Arab Slave Dealer (cat. no. 1560, £10 10s.).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the nineteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1889', 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_1278346732, accessed 22 Sep 2023]
