The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Twenty-Ninth, 1855
End Date: 1855
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 Sculpture Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Corinna
lent by William Wilson Esq. of Banknock
Exhibition included Putting the stone
1855
Exhibition included Charlotte, daughter of D. O. Hill, Esq., RSA
1855
Exhibition included Dante and Beatrice
1855
Exhibition included A Lady
1855
Exhibition included The late Hon. Lord Cockburn
1855
Exhibition included The Rt Hon. Lord Rutherfurd
1855
Exhibition included Harry George, son of Deputy Commissary General Weir
1855
Exhibition included Thomas Mansfield Guthrie, son of C. J. Guthrie, Esq., Advocate
1855
Exhibition included Lady
1855
Exhibition included Lady
1855
Exhibition included Arthur Edmunds, Esq.
1855
Exhibition included Youth
1855
Exhibition included A goat's head
1855
Exhibition included A partridge
1855
Exhibition included The fairy flower stand
1855
Exhibition included A lady
1855
Exhibition included Master A. Ogilvie
Participants
Exhibitors included Andrew Currie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'Thomas Mansfield Guthrie, son of C. J. Guthrie, Esq., Advocate'
Exhibitors included Andrew Hume Forrest
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Anderson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Brodie
'Charlotte, daughter of D. O. Hill, Esq., RSA'
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Twenty-Ninth, 1855', 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_1206628852, accessed 24 Sep 2023]