The Sixty-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1895
End Date: 1895
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 703 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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: Exhibition held in six rooms. Sculpture exhibited with pictures in the centre of the North Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Unwilling Service
Exhibition included Nancy: a Portrait
1895
Exhibition included Portrait of my Father
1895
Exhibition included Heads in Repousee
1895
Exhibition included Shewing his Points
1895
Exhibition included The Mermaid's Song
1895
Exhibition included Clematis
1895
Exhibition included Portrait
1895
Exhibition included Portrait of a Young Lady
1895
Exhibition included The Snake Charmer
1895
Exhibition included The Birth of Music
1895
Exhibition included My Little Boy
1895
Exhibition included J. B. Elkington, Esq.
1895
Offered for sale Shewing his Points
1895
£12 12s.
Offered for sale The Mermaid's Song
1895
£10 10s.
Offered for sale Clematis
1895
£5 5s.
Offered for sale The Snake Charmer
1895
£5 5s.
Offered for sale The Birth of Music
1895
£3 3s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
'Clematis'
Exhibitors included Ethel Isabel Cook
'Portrait'
Exhibitors included Frederick L. Wilkins
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Hannah Elizabeth Smith
'My Little Boy'
Exhibitors included Charles Willms
'J. B. Elkington, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Martha A. Onions
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Alyn Williams
1895
Sources
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Sixty-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1895
1895
pp. 61-62 (691-703)
Citing this record
'The Sixty-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1895', 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_1202813189, accessed 29 May 2023]
