Art Exhibition of the Royal National Eisteddfod, 1883
End Date: 1883
Type: Exhibition
Display Arrangement: Approximately 500 individual works entered for 30 different competitions. The majority of the works were paintings.
Competition Details: Prizes awarded for best and second best in show and best in each of 30 categories.
Exhibits
Exhibition included The Crossing Sweeper
entered for the competition for the best piece of sculpture
Exhibition included The First Repast
£50
entered for the competition for the best piece of sculpture
Exhibition included Terra Cotta Bust
Entered for the competition for the best piece of Sculpture. Won first prize. Also won Gold Medal for the best work in the whole event.
Exhibition included Wood Carving - Conventional
entered for the best Wood Carving Competition
Exhibition included Splendour invites the Lark to the Sky
this work was not entered into any of the competitions
Exhibition included An Evening Star
1883
£55
Entered for the competition for the best piece of sculpture.
Exhibition included Little Innocent
1883
£35
entered for the competition for the best piece of sculpture
Exhibition included Coursing
1883
£120
Entered for the competition for the best piece of Sculpture.
Exhibition included Mother and Child
1883
entered for the competition for the best piece of sculpture
Exhibition included Angel
1883
Entered for the competition for the best piece of sculpture.
Exhibition included Angel
1883
Entered for the competition for the best piece of sculpture.
Exhibition included Medallion
1883
£12 12s.
Entered competition for the best Medallion, cast in plaster, of an Ideal Bust or Figure, personifying the town of Cardiff, not less than 2ft in diameter.
Exhibition included Moses
1883
£4 10s.
won competition for the best Wood Carving
Exhibition included Ebonized Panel for Sideboard
1883
The 3 works were entered in the competition for the best wood carving.
Exhibition included Panel in Portland Stone
1883
This work was entered for, and won, the competition for the best stone carving. It was also the only work in that category.
Exhibition included Left by the Guardian Angel
1883
This work was not entered in to any of the specific competitions.
Exhibition included Leda
1883
The work was not entered into any of the competitions.
Participants
Awarded prize to James Milo Ap Griffith
1883
£37 7s.
Griffith won the Gold Medal for Best Work in Competition, £30 for the Best Piece of Sculpture and £7 7s for the Best Life-Sized Portrait Bust of a Welsh Worthy.
Awarded prize to W. Henry Wormleighton
1883
£13
Wormleighton was awarded £5 for The Best Wood Carving and £5 for the best Stone Carving (He also was awarded second place, £3, for the Best Applied Design).
Exhibitors included G.S. Barkentil
'Panel in Portland Stone'
Exhibitors included James Milo Ap Griffith
1883
Exhibitors included Edward Griffith
1883
Entered works in competitions for the best life-sized Portrait Bust of a Welsh Worthy and for the best Wood Carving. Won neither.
Exhibitors included T.R. Griffiths
1883
Exhibitors included John Tudor Davies
1883
Exhibitors included William Doel
1883
Exhibitors included George McCulloch
1883
Exhibitors included W. Henry Wormleighton
1883
Citing this record
'Art Exhibition of the Royal National Eisteddfod, 1883', 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_1202399282, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
