Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Works of Living Artists, The Eighth, 1853
End Date: 1853
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Approximately 400 works on display including 90 architectural and sculptural works (primarily designs and plans for buildings.)
The Royal West of England Academy contributed 9 sculptural works to the exhibition, 7 casts and 2 low relief castings. Three of these works were originally by the sculptor Thorwaldson.
Display Arrangement: All architectural and sculptural works displayed in an architecture and sculpture room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Subject from the Iliad
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included The Triumph of Alexander
Architecture and Sculpture room
Exhibition included Pan
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Rubens
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Roubilliac
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Vandyke
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included A Bristol Artist
1853
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Hector and Achilles
1853
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Ino and Bacchus
1853
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Foley's 'First Whisper of Love'
1853
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Chantrey's 'Charity'
1853
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Clytie
1853
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Exhibition included Dog and Shadow
1853
Architecture and Sculpture Room
Citing this record
'Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Works of Living Artists, The Eighth, 1853', 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_1218017822, accessed 03 Mar 2021]
