The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fortieth, 1866
End Date: 1866
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) and Esme Gordon, The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture 1826-1976 (Edinburgh: Charles Skilton, 1976).
See also http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/menu_page.asp/.
Display Arrangement: Sculpture exhibited in The Great and South Rooms.
Exhibits
Exhibition included A Roman dancing girl
lent by James Cowan Esq.
Exhibition included A lady
1866
Exhibition included A country lassie
1866
Exhibition included A Lady
1866
Exhibition included The Rt Hon. Lady Kinnaird
1866
Exhibition included Miss Home of Argaty
1866
Exhibition included William Thomas Thomson, Esq., FRSE
1866
Exhibition included Dr Macleod of Ben-Rydding
1866
Exhibition included Miss Duncan
1866
Exhibition included A gentleman
1866
Exhibition included J. J. Grieve, Esq., Provost of Greenock
1866
Exhibition included Andrew Bannatyne, Esq.
1866
Exhibition included A child
1866
Exhibition included Mrs Richardson
1866
Exhibition included Adam Black, Esq.
1866
Exhibition included Pasquccia, a young Roman
1866
Exhibition included Elaine
1866
Exhibition included Dr Livingstone, the African traveller
1866
Exhibition included Bust of Sir Roderick J. Merchison, Bt, KCB, PRGS, FRS, DCL, LLD etc
1866
Exhibition included Master Dairmid Noel Paton when two years old
1866
Exhibition included Bust of Robert Napier, Esq., of Shandon
1866
Exhibition included Bust of Sir Edward Cazalet, Esq., of St Petersburg
1866
Exhibition included The Rev. John Bruce, DD, of Free St Andrews Church
1866
Exhibition included The Wee Howlett
1866
Exhibition included Andrew Bannantyne Esq.
Participants
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
'A child'
Exhibitors included Amelia Robertson Hill
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
'Pasquccia, a young Roman'
Exhibitors included William Brodie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Andrew Smith Brewster
'A country lassie'
Exhibitors included Archibald Anderson
'A lady'
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fortieth, 1866', 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_1206629835, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
