The Seventieth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1896
End Date: 1896
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 726 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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 and ceramics exhibited with pictures in the North Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Idyll
1896
£15
Exhibition included An Athenian Beggar
1896
Exhibition included The Young Night
1896
Exhibition included Golfers
1896
Exhibition included Andromeda
1896
Exhibition included Study of a Head
1896
Exhibition included The Raiders
1896
Exhibition included Miss Alice Castleman
1896
Exhibition included The Late Sir Charles Halle
1896
Exhibition included Blanche
1896
Exhibition included J. W. Bassett
1896
Exhibition included Innocence
1896
Exhibition included The Truant
1896
Exhibition included Cupid Off Duty
1896
Exhibition included Pheasant
1896
Offered for sale An Athenian Beggar
1896
£10 10s.
Offered for sale The Young Night
1896
£35
Offered for sale Golfers
1896
£15 15s.
Offered for sale Andromeda
1896
£21
Offered for sale The Raiders
1896
£15 15s.
Offered for sale Blanche
1896
£20
Offered for sale Innocence
1896
£10 10s.
Offered for sale The Truant
1896
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Cupid Off Duty
1896
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Pheasant
1896
£5 5s.
Participants
Exhibitors included A. Hopkins
'Pheasant'
Exhibitors included L.K. Brown Sheldon
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
'Idyll'
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Cassidy
'The Late Sir Charles Halle'
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
'Miss Alice Castleman'
Exhibitors included Clement William Jewitt
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Martha A. Onions
'Study of a Head'
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
'The Raiders '
Citing this record
'The Seventieth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1896', 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_1202832051, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
