Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the seventh (Liverpool), 1877
End Date: 1877
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,320 works were exhibited.
£10,989 6s. 0d. receipts from sales.
72,105 visitors (based on individual tickets sold, first year that exhibition took place in the newly built Walker Art Gallery).
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).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture was exhibited in the Vestibule.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Exhibitors included Allan and Sons
1877
Bust of his Worship the Mayor, A. B. Walker, Esq. (cat. no. 1302, 'from a Photograph', not for sale).
Organized by Walker Art Gallery
1877
Participants
Exhibitors included George Holding II
1877
Woodcock and Lapwing (cat. no. 1290, modelled from nature, £10); Partridge and Quail (cat. no. 1291, modelled from nature, £10 10s.); Our Saviour (cat. no. 1312, plaster, £3 10s.).
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
1877
The First Flight (cat. no. 1292, terracotta, not for sale); Professor Max Muller (cat. no. 1296, terracotta, not for sale); W. Bruce Joy, Esq., MD (cat. no. 1309, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Canova Throp
1877
Michael Angelo (cat. no. 1294, marble, not for sale); Canova (cat. no. 1298, marble, not for sale - N.B. presumably created by this artist, listed in the catalogue as 'Canova').
Exhibitors included Giovanni Fontana
1877
La Prigioniera D'Amore (cat. no. 1293, marble, £350); Baffled (cat. no. 1307, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1877
The late Dr Chadwick, of Bolton (cat. no. 1295, plaster, £31 10s.); Lord Byron (cat. no. 1297, plaster, £36 15s.); Something in the Wind (cat. no. 1315, plaster, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Alexander Paterson MacBride
1877
Marble Bust of the Late Mayor, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomson (cat. no. 1299, not for sale); Model Bust of the late Rev. Augustus Campbell, Rector of Liverpool (cat. no. 1310, 'Modelled from Life', plaster, copies for £6 6s.).
Exhibitors included Mary Louisa Bennett
1877
A Little Child - Study from Life (cat no. 1300, terracotta, £9 9s.); Constance - Study from Life (cat. no. 1301, terracotta, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included John Griffiths
1877
Wood Carving (cat. no. 1303, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Alfred Norbury
1877
Our Pet (cat. no. 1306, £26 5s.).
Exhibitors included E. Battersby
1877
Portrait Bust of an Italian Lady (cat. no. 1308, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1877
An English Rose (cat. no. 1311, plaster model, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included George Holding II
1877
Our Saviour (cat. no. 1312, plaster, £3 10s.).
Exhibitors included Joseph Rogerson
1877
His Worship the Mayor, A. B. Walker, Esq. (cat. no. 1314, marble statuette, £30).
Exhibitors included Antonio Rossetti
1877
Time is Precious (cat. no. 1316, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Charles Weiner
1877
A Scotchman (cat. no. 1317, marble statuette, not for sale); A Flower Girl (cat. no. 1318, marble statuette, not for sale).
Exhibitors included John Warrington Wood
1877
The Murmur of the Shell - Ethel Lizette, Youngest Daughter of His Worship the Mayor, A. B. Walker, Esq. (cat. no. 1319, marble, not for sale).
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
1877
Nymph at the Stream (cat. no. 1320, marble, £450).
Citing this record
'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the seventh (Liverpool), 1877', 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_1278405523, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
