The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Seventh, 1873
End Date: 1873
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 Blind girl reading
Lent by James G. Orchar, Esq., of Dundee.
Exhibition included The late Mark Lemon, Esq., Editor of 'Punch'
lent by P. Comyn Macgregor, Esq., of Brediland
Exhibition included Bust of a lady
Lent by Mr Bonnar
Exhibition included Peter Reid, Esq., Forfar
Exhibition included Portrait
lent by George Munro, Esq., Sheriff of Linlithgow, Clackmanannan and Kinross
Exhibition included A child
1873
Exhibition included Portrait of gentleman
1873
Exhibition included Miss Henry
1873
Exhibition included Master Partrick Balfour
1873
Exhibition included The late Mrs Farquharson of Invercauld
1873
Exhibition included Thos Jamieson Boyd, Esq., FRSE, Master of the Merchant Company 1869-71
1873
Exhibition included Mrs Law
1873
Exhibition included Provost Swan, Kirkcaldy
1873
Exhibition included Ex-Lord Provost Law
1873
Exhibition included Portrait medallion
1873
Exhibition included Wee Bobbie
1873
Exhibition included James Greenshields Esq.
1873
Exhibition included P. Comyn Macgregor, Esq., of Brediland
1873
Exhibition included A serious story - Maggie and Bertie, daughters of Robert Galloway Esq., of Liverpool
1873
Exhibition included J. S. Geikie
1873
Exhibition included Prof. Geikie
1873
Exhibition included Alexander Hutchison Esq., Glasgow
1873
Exhibition included Posthumous bust of a boy
1873
Exhibition included Posthumous bust of a boy
1873
Exhibition included The Earl of Dalhousie, KT, GCB
1873
Exhibition included The late Archibald Watson Goldie, Esq., WS
1873
Exhibition included Nina, a Roman study
1873
Exhibition included Mrs Lockhart Thomson
1873
Exhibition included The late Sir James Y. Simpson, Bt, MD etc
1873
Exhibition included Emmie
1873
Exhibition included Mrs James Ballantine
1873
Exhibition included The late William Glover, DD
1873
Exhibition included Ludlow Castle - evening
1873
Exhibition included Highland Mary
1873
Exhibition included Robert Burns from a cast of his skull and the picture by Alex Nasmyth
1873
Exhibition included Dr Robert Chambers
1873
Exhibition included Meta - 'Goodnight, Papa'
1873
lent by Alexander Gilroy, Esq., of Dunalister
Exhibition included Old mill near Edinburgh
Exhibition included The late Mrs J. B. Balfour
Participants
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Donald Campbell Haggart
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Amelia Robertson Hill
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Brodie
'Master Partrick Balfour'
Exhibitors included Isabella L. Geikie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Andrew Smith Brewster
'Portrait of gentleman'
Exhibitors included Archibald Anderson
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Forty-Seventh, 1873', 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_1206630564, accessed 29 May 2023]
