Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row (Birmingham Society of Artists), 1853
End Date: 1853
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Exhibition held in four rooms. The exhibition contained 400 works.
Policy: The Notice to Exhibitors page stated: 'no Works which have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs) can be received.'
Display Arrangement: Sculpture exhibited with pictures in Room Four.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Portrait of a Gentlemen at Edgbaston
Exhibition included Bust of the late William Congreve Russell, Esq.
Exhibition included Dickey and Skye
Exhibition included Bust of the late Thomas Rhodes, Esq., Handsworth
Exhibition included Feeding Time
£70
Exhibition included Bust of Mr James Bennett as Hamlet
Offered for sale Feeding Time
£70
Participants
Exhibitors included Peter Hollins
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Kirk (of Dumfries)
'Feeding Time'
Exhibitors included W. Waite
Multiple works
Exhibitors included J. S. Allen
'Portrait of a Gentlemen at Edgbaston'
Citing this record
'Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row (Birmingham Society of Artists), 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=msib4_1202211126, accessed 04 Mar 2021]
