Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1870
End Date: 1870
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Exhibition held in six rooms. Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 671 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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 Front Room West.
Exhibits
Exhibition included The Playmates
Exhibition included Bust of an African Princess
Exhibition included Hush
Exhibition included Elihu Burritt, Esq.
Exhibition included Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen
Offered for sale Bust of an African Princess
£84
Offered for sale Hush
£52 10s.
Participants
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
'Hush'
Exhibitors included Henry Weekes
'Bust of an African Princess'
Exhibitors included Peter Hollins
'The Playmates'
Exhibitors included Fellows
'Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen'
Citing this record
'Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 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=msib4_1202401501, accessed 04 Jun 2023]
