Exhibition of Pictures in Oil and Water Colours, by Local Artists (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1895
End Date: May 1895
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: The exhibition contained works in oil, watercolour and sculpture by local artists and by members of the Nottingham Society of Artists. It also contained additional works from the Castle Gallery's permanent collections from loan collections.
Display Arrangement: Painting and sculpture was displayed together.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Castle Museum (Nottingham)
May 1895
Participants included Nottingham Society of Artists
May 1895
Participants
Exhibitors included Henry Stormonth Leifchild
May 1895
The artists' works were exhibited posthumously and given by Mrs H. S. Leifchild and family. Four statues in plaster were displayed: 'Athene Repressing the Fury of Achilles', 'The Dawn', 'Thought' and 'Lot's Wife' (p. 54). All of these works were also exhibited posthumously in the 'Ninth Annual Autumn Exhibition of Modern Pictures', Castle Gallery, Nottingham (1889).
Citing this record
'Exhibition of Pictures in Oil and Water Colours, by Local Artists (Nottingham Castle Museum), 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_1232464359, accessed 26 Feb 2020]
