The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Fifth, 1881
End Date: 1881
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 Eugene Aram
lent by A. D. Grimond of Glenericht
Exhibition included Mrs Carnegie, New York
lent by Andrew Carnegie, Esq., New York
Exhibition included Jeannie Deans on her way to London
1881
Exhibition included The Laird of Dumbiedykes
1881
Exhibition included A daughter of the artist
1881
Exhibition included The late Thomas Carlyle, from life
1881
Exhibition included Miss Young of Kelly
1881
Exhibition included William Nelson, Esq., Salisbury Green
1881
Exhibition included The innocent
1881
Exhibition included William Grubb, Esq., Dundee
1881
Exhibition included The late James Galbraith, Esq., Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire
1881
Exhibition included A. D. Robertson, Esq., Glasgow
1881
Exhibition included Mrs Cochran-Patrick
1881
Exhibition included King Robert the Bruce
1881
Exhibition included A sentinel of the Inquisition in Antwerp
1881
Exhibition included The late James Mylne, Esq., WS
Exhibition included The late Thomas Sprot, Esq., WS
Participants
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
'King Robert the Bruce'
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'The innocent'
Exhibitors included James Alexander Ewing
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Brodie
'A daughter of the artist'
Exhibitors included George Washington Andrew Kinloch
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Donald Campbell Haggart
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Amelia Robertson Hill
'Mrs Carnegie, New York'
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Fifth, 1881', 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_1206631135, accessed 24 Mar 2023]
