The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fiftieth, 1876
End Date: 1876
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 South Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included John, 13th Lord Elphinstone
lent by Lord Elphinstone
Exhibition included The late Shirley Brooks, Esq., Editor of 'Punch'
lent by P. Comyn Macgregor, Esq., of Brediland
Exhibition included Lady Gertrude, eldest daughter of the Rt Hon the Earl of Glasgow
1876
Exhibition included John Moir, Esq., MD, FRCP
1876
Exhibition included Amy Robsart
1876
Exhibition included The late Miss Frances R. MacGregor
1876
Exhibition included The late Mrs MacGregor
1876
Exhibition included Baroness Burdett-Coutts
1876
Exhibition included The late Lady Coxe
1876
Exhibition included John Clapperton, Esq., Master of the Merchant Company 1873-74
1876
Exhibition included The parting of Abradates and Panthea (vide Xenophon)
1876
Exhibition included Mrs Dougal
1876
Exhibition included Andrew Dougal, Esq.
1876
Exhibition included Wee Johnnie
1876
Exhibition included Walter Bentley, Esq.
1876
Exhibition included Portrait bust
1876
Exhibition included A covenanter
1876
lent by J. McGavin, Esq., Glasgow
Exhibition included Maidenhead
1876
Exhibition included Miss Stillie
1876
Exhibition included Heavenward
1876
Exhibition included The virgin
1876
Exhibition included The late Sir George Harvey, PRSA, 1860
1876
Exhibition included Regent Murray Memorial, erected at Linlithgow in 1875 at the spot where he met his death
1876
Exhibition included Posthumous marble bust of a lady
1876
Exhibition included Richard Irven, Esq., New York
1876
Exhibition included Bust of John Knox
1876
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'Andrew Dougal Esq.'
Exhibitors included William Brodie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Amelia Robertson Hill
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Emmeline M Knott
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
'The late Sir George Harvey, PRSA, 1860'
Exhibitors included James Nesfield Forsyth
'The virgin'
Exhibitors included Alexander Dickson
'Portrait bust'
Exhibitors included Mary Anne Coutts
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Donald Campbell Haggart
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William G. Coutts
'Walter Bentley, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Andrew Smith Brewster
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fiftieth, 1876', 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_1206630835, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
