The Thirty-Fourth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1899
End Date: 1899
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Premises enlarged in 1868 providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 750 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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 The Age of Innocence
1899
Exhibition included Spring
1899
Exhibition included Head of Bachus
1899
Exhibition included The Lark
1899
Exhibition included A Son of Neptune
1899
Exhibition included 'Having Fought the Good Fight'
1899
Exhibition included May
1899
Exhibition included May
1899
£5 5s.
Exhibition included Azeleas
1899
Exhibition included The Madonna
1899
Exhibition included The Valkyries
1899
Exhibition included The Kingdon of Love
1899
Exhibition included Medallion
1899
Exhibition included Briton Riviere, R.A.
1899
Exhibition included Night
1899
Exhibition included Hagar
1899
Exhibition included Spring
1899
Offered for sale The Age of Innocence
1899
£30
Offered for sale Spring
1899
£100
Offered for sale Head of Bachus
1899
£5 5s.
Offered for sale The Lark
1899
£26 5s.
Offered for sale A Son of Neptune
1899
£8 8s.
Offered for sale 'Having Fought the Good Fight'
1899
£35
Offered for sale The Madonna
1899
£2
Offered for sale The Valkyries
1899
£12 12s.
Offered for sale Medallion
1899
£25
Offered for sale Night
1899
£3 3s.
Offered for sale Hagar
1899
£31
Offered for sale Spring
1899
£100
Participants
Exhibitors included Agnes M. Drinkwater
'The Madonna'
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
'The Valkyries'
Exhibitors included Clement William Jewitt
'The Kingdon of Love'
Exhibitors included Alfred Watson
'Medallion'
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
'Briton Riviere, R.A.'
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
'Hagar'
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Christine M. Connell
'Azeleas'
Exhibitors included Henry Albert Payne
'May'
Exhibitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Clara Hill
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Frederick L. Wilkins
Multiple works
Sources
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Fourth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1899
1899
pp. 63-64 (735-50)
Citing this record
'The Thirty-Fourth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1899', 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_1202910129, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
