Ninth Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures, also Loan and Permanent Collection of Pictures, Etc., including the Leifchild Gift of Sculpture (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1889
End Date: 1889
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: The exhibition contained 682 works of painting and sculpture, including works from loan and the gallery's permanent collections.
Five statues in plaster that were executed by Henry Stormonth Leifchild were exhibited posthumously. The sculptures were 'given by Mrs. H. S. Leifchild and family (through Professor G. Baldwin Brown)' [summary].
Policy: The exhibition contained works that had been 'executed within the last three years, and not previously exhibited in the locality'.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Bas-relief - Dancing in the Temple of Diana
1889
Exhibition included A Mud-lark
1889
Exhibition included Pysche Faints
1889
Exhibition included The Charmer
1889
Exhibition included Innocenza - study from life
1889
Exhibition included A Daughter of Venice - study from life
1889
Offered for sale Bas-relief - Dancing in the Temple of Diana
1889
£3 3s.
Offered for sale A Mud-lark
1889
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Pysche Faints
1889
£8 8s.
Offered for sale The Charmer
1889
£12 12s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Charles Calderon
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
'Bas-relief - Dancing in the Temple of Diana'
Exhibitors included Henry Stormonth Leifchild
1889
The artist's works were exhibited posthumously. Five statues in plaster were displayed: 'Thought', p. 75 (638); 'Lot's Wife', p. 75 (639); 'Athene Repressing the Fury of Achilles', p. 76 (640); 'The Dawn', p. 77 (641); 'Andromeda Bound to the Rock', p. 77 (642). All of these works were also exhibited posthumously in the 'Exhibition of Pictures in Oil and Water Colours by Local Artists', Castle Gallery (May 1895).
Citing this record
'Ninth Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures, also Loan and Permanent Collection of Pictures, Etc., including the Leifchild Gift of Sculpture (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1889', 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_1232453495, accessed 22 Sep 2023]
