Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1870
Start Date: 16 August 1870
End Date: 1 October 1870
Type: Exhibition
Policy: Originally intended to raise funds to remove the debt from Cardiff Infirmary. However, after assistance from Lord Bute, who paid off all the debt, the proceeds from the exhibition were then applied to the erection of a new building for the Cardiff Free Library, Museum, and Schools of Science and Art.
Approximately 1000 works exhibited including fine art, natural history and 'miscellaneous curiosities'.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Science Unveiling Ignorance
1870
Exhibition included The late Lord Justice Knight Bruce
1870
Exhibition included Distressed Mother
1870
Exhibition included The Hon. Mrs Herbert of Llanarth
1870
Exhibition included Portrait of Right Hon. Lord Llanover
1870
Exhibition included Portrait of Mdlle Hilda Bunsen
1870
Exhibition included Stephen Herbert, youngest son of J. A. Herbert, Esq., of Llanarth
1870
Exhibition included Model of Puck
1870
Exhibition included Contest between Corineus and Goëmagot - An early British Legend
1870
Exhibition included The Harvest Queen
1870
Exhibition included Musidora
1870
Exhibition included Mr Thomas Williams of Canton
1870
Exhibition included Head of Boadicea
1870
Exhibition included Cain preparing his Sacrifice
1870
Exhibition included Clock Stand
1870
Exhibition included The Good Shepherd
1870
Exhibition included Sunshine
1870
Exhibition included Beatrice
1870
Exhibition included Lord Napier of Magdala
1870
Exhibition included Prince Herman de Solms Braunfels
1870
Exhibition included J. W. Burton, Esq.
1870
Exhibition included Countess Laure
1870
Exhibition included Prezezdzieçka
1870
Exhibition included Monumental Cross
1870
Exhibition included Model of Town Hall, Cardiff
1870
Exhibition included Model of a Villa
1870
Exhibition included Monument with Female Figure
1870
Exhibition included Blackberry Picking: The Thorn
1870
Exhibition included Telling a Secret
1870
Exhibition included Hope
1870
Exhibition included Madonna
1870
Exhibition included Imperishable Metal Letters, on marble slab
1870
Exhibition included Late Lord Bute
1870
Exhibition included Daniel Jones, Beaupre
1870
Exhibition included St Thomas
1884
Participants
Exhibitors included W. Henry Wormleighton
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Robert Clarke
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included James Milo Ap Griffith
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included C.J. Jackson
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included A.H. James
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included Thomas Jones
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included J. Loveleys
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included John Evan Thomas
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included William Meredyth Thomas
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included P. Torrington
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Exhibitors included Edward Bowring Stephens
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Organized by Edward Payne
16 August 1870 - 1 October 1870
Payne suggested the idea of holding the exhibition and 'enegetically promoted the scheme.'
Citing this record
'Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition (Cardiff), 1870', 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=msib1_1202230726, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
