The Thirtieth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Royal 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 773 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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 on a table in the Long Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included A Spanish Bull Fight
1895
Exhibition included Cynthia
1895
Exhibition included Portrait: Head of Willis G. Crisford, Esq.
1895
Exhibition included Portrait
1895
Exhibition included The Late Archdeacon Blakeney, proposed memorial
1895
Exhibition included The Late Archdeacon Blakeney
1895
Exhibition included The Late Dr Dale
1895
Offered for sale A Spanish Bull Fight
1895
£1 10s.
Offered for sale Cynthia
1895
£7 7s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Henry Tonks Jun.
'Portrait'
Exhibitors included Frederick L. Wilkins
'Portrait: Head of Willis G. Crisford, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Herbert Edward Gibbs
'Cynthia'
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
'A Spanish Bull Fight'
Citing this record
'The Thirtieth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Royal 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_1202826567, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
