Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1879
End Date: 1879
Type: Annual exhibition
Policy: 'From the Council of the Royal Institution, as representing the proprietors of [Manchester Art Gallery], is annually elected a 'Selection and Hanging Committee' upon which devolves the duty of organising and arranging the Autumn Exhibitions. Their invitations are issued over a very wide area, and the aim is not to make it an exhibition of local artists' works only, but to obtain a fair representation of English Art all over the country, and also to secure works from the French, German, Italian and other foreign schools...'
Display Arrangement: Sculpture was shown in the South Corridor.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Religion Consoling Justice
Exhibition included Posthumous Portrait
Exhibition included Julia
Exhibition included Portrait of Miss L.
Exhibition included Posthumous Portrait of Mrs D. Taylor
Exhibition included Maidenhood
Exhibition included Statuette
Exhibition included Blind Man's Buff
Exhibition included Daphne
Exhibition included S. H. Lewis, Esq.
Exhibition included The Village Maid
Exhibition included H. R. H. the Late Princess Alice and Daughter
Exhibition included Henry Vincent
Offered for sale Religion Consoling Justice
£20
Offered for sale Julia
£7 7s.
Offered for sale Statuette
£110
Offered for sale Blind Man's Buff
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Daphne
£4 4s.
Offered for sale The Village Maid
£42
Offered for sale H. R. H. the Late Princess Alice and Daughter
£36 15s.
Offered for sale Henry Vincent
£50
Participants
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
'S. H. Lewis, Esq.'
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
'The Village Maid'
Exhibitors included James Havard Thomas
'H. R. H. the Late Princess Alice and Daughter'
Exhibitors included Eli Johnson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Edgar George Papworth Jnr
'Maidenhood'
Exhibitors included George Holding II
'Posthumous Portrait of Mrs D. Taylor'
Exhibitors included S. Lawson Booth
'Portrait of Miss L.'
Exhibitors included Emmeline Halse
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Gerolamo (Gerome) Oldofredi Tadini
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1879', 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=msib5_1219921059, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
