The Fine Art Exhibition to Aid the Establishing of the Royal Cambrian Academy, 1884
End Date: 1884
Type: Exhibition
Description: Over 1,500 different works exhibited including paintings, books, prints and sculpture. Approximately half of all works were paintings. About 60 works were exhibited in the sculpture section including works by both contemporary artists and earlier European artists.
Policy: The profits derived from the exhibition were to be used for the purposes of permanent establishment of the Royal Cambrian Academy in Cardiff.
Exhibits
Exhibition included My Guardian
1884
£630
available in marble for £630
Exhibition included Mother and Child
1884
Exhibition included An Evening Star
1884
Exhibition included Ione
1884
£60
Exhibition included Summer Flowers
1884
Exhibition included Sabina
1884
£400
available in marble for £400
Exhibition included Clymene, from Keat's Hyperion
1884
Exhibition included Miss Mary Davies
1884
Exhibition included Mr Arthur Davies
1884
Exhibition included John Roberts, Esq., MP
1884
Exhibition included Prof. Ramsay, FRS, FRGS
1884
Exhibition included The Late Sir Hugh Owen
1884
Exhibition included Portrait of a Lady
1884
Exhibition included Elaine
1884
Exhibition included Italian Boy
1884
Exhibition included W. Merete, Esq.
1884
Exhibition included Type of Beauty
1884
Exhibition included Master Willie Ferguson
1884
Exhibition included Carved Panel
1884
Exhibition included St Paul
1884
Exhibition included St Matthew
1884
Exhibition included Moses
1884
Exhibition included Angel
1884
Exhibition included Angel
1884
Exhibition included Medallion
1884
The work was contributed to the exhibition by the Pencoed Terra-cotta Company.
Exhibition included Portrait
1884
Exhibition included Flower Vases
1884
The work was contributed to the exhibition by the Pencoed Terra-cotta Company.
Exhibition included C. R. M. Talbot, MP, Lord-Lieutenant County Glamorgan
1884
The work was contributed to the exhibition by the Pencoed Terra-cotta Company.
Exhibition included Figure
1884
The work was contributed to the exhibition by the Pencoed Terra-cotta Company.
Exhibition included Clock Stand, representing bramble and titmouse nest
1884
Exhibition included Sculpture
1884
Exhibition included Painting
1884
Exhibition included Literature
1884
Exhibition included Music
1884
Organizing Institution or Venue
Exhibitors included Pencoed Terra-cotta Company
1884
Organized by Cardiff Scheme Committee of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts
1884
Participants
Exhibitors included William Doel
Multiple works
Exhibitors included G.S. Barkentil
1884
Exhibited/contributed to exhibition as part of partnership Barkentil and Krale (probably Carl Krall).
Exhibitors included James Milo Ap Griffith
1884
Exhibitors included William Mynorydd Davis
1884
Exhibitors included David Davis
1884
Exhibitors included John Loveless
1884
Exhibitors included Dawkin K. Williams
1884
Exhibitors included W. Henry Wormleighton
1884
Citing this record
'The Fine Art Exhibition to Aid the Establishing of the Royal Cambrian Academy, 1884', 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_1202307936, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
