Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1890
End Date: 1890
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,307 works exhibited.
£6,942 1s. 6d, receipts for sales.
64,717 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 Albert Arthur Toft
1890
Major Walter Wingfield, Inventor of Lawn Tennis (cat. no. 1279, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
1890
Marquis of Salisbury (cat. no. 1280, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. Constant Vinoelst
1890
The Young Hero (cat. no. 1281, marble bust, not for sale); The First Rose (cat. no. 1282, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Francis John Williamson
1890
The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, MP (cat. no. 1283, not for sale); Jubilee Bust of Her Majesty the Queen (cat. no. 1285, plaster, not for sale); An Eastern Shepherd (cat. no. 1310, marble, £47 5s.); Cupid and Psyche (cat. no. 1314, marble, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Hargreaves Bond
1890
Portrait of a Gentleman (cat. no. 1284, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Hannah Bolton Barlow
1890
'So near and yet so far' (cat. no. 1286, terracotta panel, £5 5s.); 'Tired of Waiting' (cat. no. 1291, terracotta, £7 10s.).
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
1890
A Romance of Olden Days (cat. no. 1288, models in wax); The Favourite (cat. no. 1296, terracotta, £5 10s.).
Exhibitors included (August Alexander) Ferdinand Junck
1890
On the Sea Beach (cat. no. 1289, marble, £65).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1890
Nancy (cat. no. 1290, plaster - not for sale, bronze - £25).
Exhibitors included A. Baker
1890
Cordelia (cat. no. 1292, terracotta, £1); Sappho (cat. no. 1293, terracotta, £1).
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
1890
Syrinx (cat. no. 1293, terracotta, £21).
Exhibitors included A. Gene
1890
Evicted (cat. no. 1294, clay, £2 12s.).
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
1890
In Wonderland (cat. no. 1295, plaster, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
1890
The Sea Maids' Frolic (cat. no. 1297, panel in wax, £5); The Pet of the Ring - 'Vox Populi' (cat. no. 1299, £8 8s.).
Exhibitors included Beatrice A. M. Brown
1890
The Young Bacchus (cat. no. 1300, clay, £15 15s.).
Exhibitors included Arthur George Atkinson
1890
Love Banished (cat. no. 1301, bronze statuette, £80).
Exhibitors included Samuel Fry
1890
L'Eveillé (cat. no. 1302, bronze, £75).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1890
'Hark! hark! the lark!' (cat. no. 1303, marble group, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
1890
Telemachus and Love (cat. no. 1304, plaster, not for sale); Sketch Model of the Statue of the late William Burke, Esq., erected in Taum (cat. no. 1309, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Thomas Nelson MacLean
1890
A Fountain (cat. no. 1305, statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Conrad Gustave d'Huc Dressler
1890
Pan the Piper (cat. no. 1306, statuette, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included William Goscombe John
1890
Parting (cat. no. 1306, group, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frank H. Norbury
1890
The Duchess of Devonshire (cat. no. 1311, £2 2s.); The late Mrs J. B. Rumney, of Waterloo (cat. no. 1312, not for sale); The late Mrs D. Walker, of West Derby (cat. no. 1313, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Emily Addis Fawcett
1890
Study of a Child's Head (cat. no. 1315, plaster medallion, £6 6s.).
Citing this record
'Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1890', 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_1278346764, accessed 23 Sep 2021]
