The Thirty-sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1901
End Date: 1901
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Exhibition held in six rooms. Premises enlarged in 1868, providing six galleries in total. The exhibition contained 649 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have been publicly exhibited in Birmingham, no copies (except Paintings in enamel, Miniature, and Impressions from unpublished medals in which case the name of the designer must be specified), no vignette Portraits, nor any Drawings without back grounds (except architectural designs)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: Jewellery objects, metal decorative objects, and 'Medals, Plaquettes, etc.' exhibited with pictures in a case in the Long Room. 'Sculpture' exhibited with pictures in the Great Room (630-640), the North Room (641-624) and the Octagon Room (643-648).
Exhibits
Exhibition included Cigar Box
second of two copper cigar boxes exhibited in 1901 (612, 620)
Exhibition included The Late John Pettie, Esq., RA
lent by Charles Winn, Esq.
Exhibition included Robert Burns
lent by Charles Winn, Esq.
Exhibition included After the Shower
1901
Exhibition included Fruit Stand
1901
Exhibition included Under the Moon
1901
Exhibition included Under the Moon
1901
£21
Exhibition included Jewel Case
1901
Exhibition included Cigarette Box
1901
Exhibition included Silver Pendant
1901
Exhibition included Silver Jewelled Bell Push
1901
Exhibition included One of Our Conquerors
1901
Exhibition included Silver Pendant
1901
Exhibition included Cigar Box
1901
Exhibition included Cigar Box
1901
£5
Exhibition included Buckles and Brooches
1901
Exhibition included Belt Buckles
1901
Exhibition included Casket
1901
Exhibition included Enamelled Buckle
1901
Exhibition included Clock Case
1901
Exhibition included Case of Jewellery
1901
Exhibition included The Venus Mirror
1901
Exhibition included The Spring of Life
1901
Exhibition included St George and the Dragon
1901
Exhibition included Medals, and Carved Steel Punches for Medals
1901
Exhibition included Silver Loving Cup
1901
Exhibition included Buddha
1901
Exhibition included Medals and Plaquettes
1901
Exhibition included Harvest
1901
Exhibition included Impressions from the Seal and Counter-Seal
1901
Exhibition included Childhood
1901
Exhibition included St John the Baptist
1901
Exhibition included The Little Duchess
1901
Exhibition included The Late Sir William Pearce, Bart
1901
Exhibition included Portrait Bust of my Father
1901
Exhibition included Night
1901
Exhibition included A Water Baby
1901
Exhibition included The Duchess of Bresali
1901
Exhibition included Study of an Old Man's Head
1901
Exhibition included Briton Riviere, Esq. R.A.
1901
lent to the exhibition by Charles Winn, Esq.
Exhibition included Jacob and the Angel
1901
Exhibition included Model for her late Majesty the Queen
1901
Exhibition included The Enchantress
1901
Exhibition included Reverie
1901
Exhibition included A Boy at Play
1901
Exhibition included Griselda
1901
Exhibition included The Snake Charmer
1901
Exhibition included Love and the Mermaid
1901
Exhibition included Oak Cabinet with Relief Panel and Figures
Offered for sale After the Shower
1901
£26 5s.
Offered for sale Fruit Stand
1901
£2
Offered for sale Jewel Case
1901
£7
Offered for sale One of Our Conquerors
1901
£18 18s.
Offered for sale Enamelled Buckle
1901
£5 5s.
Offered for sale The Venus Mirror
1901
£21
Offered for sale The Spring of Life
1901
£40
Offered for sale St George and the Dragon
1901
£30
Offered for sale Silver Loving Cup
1901
£21
Offered for sale Buddha
1901
£20
Offered for sale Childhood
1901
£84
Offered for sale St John the Baptist
1901
£25 5s.
Offered for sale The Little Duchess
1901
£30
Offered for sale Study of an Old Man's Head
1901
£52 10s.
Offered for sale Jacob and the Angel
1901
£20
Offered for sale Reverie
1901
£10
Offered for sale A Boy at Play
1901
£52 10s.
Offered for sale Griselda
1901
£20
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1901
Participants included Birmingham Art Circle
1901
Members of the Birmingham Art Circle were invited to participate in the exhibition as 'a group', and were allotted 'space specially set aside for that purpose' [summary] (Birmingham Art Circle Minutes, 1900, p. 153).
Participants
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
'Cigar Box'
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
'Study of an Old Man's Head'
Exhibitors included John Wenlock Rollins
'The Duchess of Bresali'
Exhibitors included (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Goscombe John
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William George de Saulles
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Arthur James Wall
'Portrait Bust of my Father '
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
'Briton Riviere, Esq. R.A.'
Exhibitors included George Anderson Lawson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Charles John Allen
'Love and the Mermaid'
Exhibitors included Adolph Thabard
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Oliver Baker
'Silver Loving Cup'
Exhibitors included George T. Morgan
'Medals, and Carved Steel Punches for Medals'
Exhibitors included Alexander Fisher
'St George the Dragon'
Exhibitors included Gertrude Smith
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Edgar Gilstrap Simpson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Léon Albert Vincent Solon
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Albert E.V. Lilley
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Effie D. Ward
Multiple works
Exhibitors included E.V. Holden
'Casket'
Exhibitors included F. Camm
'Casket'
Exhibitors included Edward Samuel Harper
Multiple works
Sources
Birmingham Art Circle Minutes
1900
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Thirty-Sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1901
1901
pp. 59-63 (603-49)
Citing this record
'The Thirty-sixth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1901', 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_1202984428, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
