Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the tenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1880
End Date: 1880
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1,081 works exhibited.
£11,753 6s. 6d. receipts for sales.
77,830 visitors (based on paid admissions).
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 Mario Raggi
1880
The Entombment (cat. no. 1040, terracotta, £63).
Exhibitors included Andrew Allen
1880
A Military Office of the Wellington Period (cat. no. 1041, wood, £52 10s.).
Exhibitors included Alfred Norbury
1880
Bust of the late Andrew Pixton (cat. no. 1042, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Frederick Thomas Callcott
1880
Friar Tuck (cat. no. 1045, terracotta, £7 7s.); An Argument (cat. no. 1047, £8); A Cup of Tea (cat. no. 1062, terracotta statuette, £21).
Exhibitors included George Blackall Simonds
1880
Ideal Head - Study for Statue, Persephone (cat. no. 1046, £105); Study for the Head of the Statue of the 'Falconer,' in the Central Park, New York (cat. no. 1076, £157 10s.).
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
1880
A Lancashire Witch (cat. no. 1048, not for sale); Art (cat. no. 1055, bronze, £35); Literature (cat. no. 1061, £35); Iphigenia (cat. no. 1072, marble, £525).
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
1880
The Hop Queen (cat. no. 1049, marble, £42).
Exhibitors included Mary Louisa Bennett
1880
The Forecastle Yarn (cat. no. 1050, £2 10s.); Learning to Read (cat. no. 1059, £1 10s.); A Village Child - Sketch from Life (cat. no. 1060, £1 1s.).
Exhibitors included Eli Johnson
1880
Mutal Friends (cat. no. 1063, terracotta, £5 5s.); Mischief (cat. no. 1065, £5 5s.).
Exhibitors included Evangeline Stirling
1880
One of our Organ Grinders (1066, terracotta, £10 10s.).
Exhibitors included George Anderson Lawson
1880
Daphins (cat. no. 1067, £1050).
Exhibitors included Edward Bowring Stephens
1880
Blackberry Picking - 'The Thorn' (cat. no. 1068, £420).
Exhibitors included Emanuel Edward Geflowski
1880
Colonel Bousfield (cat. no. 1069, not for sale); Mrs Bousfield (cat. no. 1070, not for sale).
Exhibitors included George H. Sand
1880
First Thoughts; or, Primi Pensivie (cat. no. 1071, £55); Leaving Home; or, The White Slave (cat. no. 1075, Neapolitan costume, £50).
Exhibitors included George Burnard
1880
A Reverie (cat. no. 1077, bust in marble, £45).
Exhibitors included John Warrington Wood
1880
Statue of Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, Kt, donor of the Walker Art Gallery (cat. no. 1078, 'erected by Public Subscription, September 3rd, 1880', not for sale).
Exhibitors included William Calder Marshall
1880
Undine (cat. no. 1079, £420).
Exhibitors included Charles Bennet Lawes-Wittewronge
1880
Summer Time (cat. no. 1080, £600 - presumably by this artist, listed in the catalogue as C. B. Lawes).
Exhibitors included William Rowlands Ingram
1880
A Veiled Head (cat. no. 1044, not for sale).
Exhibitors included Arthur George Atkinson
1880
An Ancient Belief: Charon ferrying the Shades of the dead across the river Styx (cat. no. 1043, £94 10s.).
Citing this record
'Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the tenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1880', 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_1278422321, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
