The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Twenty-Eighth, 1854
End Date: 1854
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy have been held in the spring of each year since 1827.
Policy: To encourage the practice of the Fine Arts in Scotland by showing to the public representative collections of works mainly from Scottish artists of the time.
Works shown at the RSA Annual Exhibition should be by living artists only, although a few works in reality were exhibited posthumously. Most works were submitted, although a number were 'invited' (RSA Dictionary, vol. 1, p. xv).
In addition to the Annual Exhibitions the Academy occasionally places on view, at another season of the year, memorial collections of the works of eminent artists recently deceased.
For further information on the history of the RSA see Frank Rinder & W. D. McKay, The Royal Scottish Academy, 1826-1916 (Glasgow: University Press, 1917).
See also http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/menu_page.asp/.
Display Arrangement: Sculpture exhibited in the West Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Portrait bust
lent by Prof. Jenner, University College, London
Exhibition included The Hon. Lord Cockburn
1854
Exhibition included Miss Rutherfurd
1854
Exhibition included The lily of the valley
1854
Exhibition included 'My name is Fun, your cronie dear, The nearest frien' ye hae, And this is Superstition here, And that's Hypocrisy' (Burns)
1854
Exhibition included The Duke of Wellington, with figures at the base - Victory presents a laurel wreath, History records his deeds, and Britannia mourns his loss
1854
Exhibition included Thomas Constable, Esq.
1854
Exhibition included Corinna, head from a statue executed in Rome
1854
Exhibition included Adoration
1854
Exhibition included Sir Thomas Brisbane
1854
Exhibition included The late William Marshall, Esq., WS
1854
Exhibition included Posthumous likeness of a gentleman
1854
Exhibition included Posthumous likeness of a lady
1854
Exhibition included Melia
1854
Exhibition included William Wood, Esq., FRSE, FRCSE
1854
Participants
Exhibitors included William Brodie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James Gall Junior
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Andrew Hume Forrest
Multiple works
Sources
The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, MDCCCLIV, The Twenty-Eighth
1854
illustrated
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Twenty-Eighth, 1854', 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=msib6_1206628795, accessed 01 Apr 2023]
