The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Sixth, 1872
End Date: 1872
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 Sculpture Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Sir Noel Paton, RSA
1872
Exhibition included A Lady
1872
Exhibition included John Young Myrtle, MD, FRCP
1872
Exhibition included Mrs John Boyd
1872
Exhibition included The late Robert Balfour, Esq., CA
1872
Exhibition included The late Sir James Simpson, Bart, MD, DCL
1872
Exhibition included The late William Brand, Esq., Secretary, Union Bank of Scotland
1872
Exhibition included The late Mrs David Chalmers
1872
Exhibition included Mrs Heugh
1872
Exhibition included Portrait bust
1872
Exhibition included Minnie
1872
Exhibition included Mrs Stuart
1872
Exhibition included The Rev. Mr Stevenson of St George's Church, Edinburgh
1872
Exhibition included Portrait bust of a gentleman
1872
Exhibition included Robert Burns
1872
lent by James Baird, Esq., of Cambusdoon
Exhibition included S. Harwood, Esq.
1872
Exhibition included Sir James J. Y. Simpson, Bart
1872
Exhibition included Wee Davock
1872
Participants
Exhibitors included Andrew Smith Brewster
'John Young Myrtle MD FRCP'
Exhibitors included Archibald Anderson
'A Lady'
Exhibitors included William Brodie
'Mrs Heugh'
Exhibitors included Amelia Robertson Hill
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Isabella L. Geikie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Donald Campbell Haggart
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Alexander Dickson
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Sixth, 1872', 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_1206630501, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
