Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fourth (Free Public Library and Museum, Liverpool), 1874
Start Date: 7 September 1874
End Date: 5 December 1874
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,120 works exhibited comprising: 509 oil paintings; 568 watercolours; 43 sculptures; and other works of art.
£9,484 3s. 0d. receipts for sales.
The exhibition received 36,429 visitors.
Policy: The exhibition was started in 1871 because 'The Library, Museum and Education Committee consider[ed] it desirable in the interests of Art [...]' (Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1871, p. 2). Its success was immediate. The receipts not only defrayed all costs but also '[...] supplied a handsome surplus to be devoted to the purposes of Art' (19th Annual Report, 1871, p. 5). As a result the autumn exhibition became an annual event.
The instructions issued to exhibitors were as follows:
'All works of Art intended for Exhibition (which must not have been previously exhibited in Liverpool) must be sent addressed to the Curator, Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool[...] Arrangements have been made to meet the convenience of Metropolitan Artists for the transmission of their Works, at their own cost and risk, through Mr. James Bourlet, 17 Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital, London.
A note [...] must be sent by post, and addressed to the Curator at Liverpool, giving the prices [...] and describing the works ads they are meant to be inserted in the Catalogue (quotations and narratives will be subject to the approval of the Acting Committee). At the back of each [work] must be written in full the name and Address of the Artist, the Title of the Picture and Number (if there are more than one)[...] The strict attention of Artists to these regulations is earnestly requested, so as to ensure accuracy in the catalogue. The absence of the Price List frequently interferes with the sale of [works of art].
[...] A Commission of Five per Cent (upon the catalogue prices) will be charged upon all works sold whilst in the possession of the Committee, whether by the Artist or the Committee.
The Committee are not responsible for, nor do they encourage any offers for Works not made through the Local Secretary; and they will be happy to receive any intimations from contributing Artists that none but Catalogue Prices would be acceptable.
All Works contributed by Members or Associates of the Royal Academy that may be sold at this Exhibition, are purchased subject to the condition that the Artist be allowed to exhibit such Work at the ensuing Exhibition of the Academy, the purchase money to be paid at the close of the Local Exhibition.
The utmost care will be taken of all Works of Art sent for the Exhibition; but the Committee will not be responsible for any damage or injury, whether in transit or whilst under their control, caused by fire or otherwise' (Instructions from 'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures', 1871, pp. 3-4).
Participants
Exhibitors included Charles Summers
1871
James Wood, Esq. (cat. no. 1077, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Gammon Adams
1874
S. R. Graves, Esq., the late (cat. no. 1078, marble bust, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
1874
Maggie and Bertha, children of Robert Galloway, Esq. (cat. no. 1080, marble, not for sale); Bust of a Lady (cat. no. 1089, not for sale), Maggie, child of Robert Galloway, Esq. (cat. no. 1090, not for sale); Robin, child of Robert Galloway, Esq. (cat. no. 1098, not for sale); Children of Thomas Hughes Jackson, Esq. (cat. no. 1107, marble group, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Birnie Philip
1874
In the Vineyard, South of Spain (cat. no. 1081, terracotta, £50 or £60).
Exhibitors included Charles MacBride
1874
Mr Alderman James Jack, 1867-1868 (cat. no. 1082, marble, not for sale); Rev. Thomas Carter (cat. no. 1083, model bust, to be executed in marble, not for sale); Alice, Daughter of George Atkin, Esq. (cat. no. 1099, marble bust, not for sale); Model bust of a Gentleman (cat. no. 1110A, to be executed in marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included A. Bigland
1874
Defence but not Defiance (cat. no. 1084, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John M. Bell
1874
Bust of a Child (cat. no. 1085, plaster, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Anderson Lawson
1874
George MacDonald, Esq., LLD (cat. no. 1086, bronze bust, £5 5s.); Bailie Nicol Jarvie (cat. no. 1087, plaster, £12); Dominie Sampson (cat. no. 1101, £7).
Exhibitors included (Aimé) Jules Dalou
1874
Jeannie (cat. no. 1088, terracotta, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1874
Right Hon. Montague Bernard (cat. no. 1091, plaster bust, not for sale); Cheering the Captives (cat. no. 1100, marble, £262 10s.).
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1874
Queen of the May (cat. no. 1092, marble, £40); Undine (cat. no. 1094, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
1874
Portrait of a Young Lady (cat. no. 1095, plaster bust, £12 12s.); Miss Eveline Farrar (cat. no. 1102, medallion, not for sale); The Viscount Monck (cat. no. 1103, not for sale); Rev. Dr Lloyd, FRS (cat. no. 1104, medallion, not for sale); Portrait (cat. no. 1105, medallion, not for sale); Portrait of a Gentleman (cat. no. 1106, medallion, not for sale).
Exhibitors included E. Gallori
1874
Grandpapa's Pets (cat. no. 1096, plaster, £63); Sancho Panza (cat. no. 1097, plaster, £100).
Exhibitors included Edward Davis
1874
Neille (cat. no. 1108, marble bust, not for sale); Lilybud (cat. no. 1109, not for sale); The late John Constable, RA (cat. no. 1110, plaster bust, executed in marble by order of the Council and placed in the Royal Academy, 1873, not for sale).
Citing this record
'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fourth (Free Public Library and Museum, Liverpool), 1874', 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_1278332881, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
