The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninetieth, 1916
Start Date: 6 May 1916
End Date: 2 September 1916
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy have been held in the spring of each year since 1827.
Catalogue for this year contains biographical notes of all exhibiting sculptors, including a note paying tribute to the Scottish sculptors who have devoted themselves to staying in Scotland against the odds. Concludes by stating that sculpture has yet to build some height in Scotland, 'out of the ashes of the present war'.
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: All sculpture displayed in the Sculpture Hall.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Dante and Beatrice
lent by James Mackinlay, Esq., Edinburgh
Exhibition included A Florentine priest
lent by the National Galleries of Scotland
Exhibition included Colin Mackenzie Esq., of Portmore
Lent by the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet.
Exhibition included Study of a boy's head
lent by David A. Tod, Esq.
Exhibition included Portrait bust
lent by the Honourable Lord Salvesen
Exhibition included The artist's father
1916
Exhibition included Mrs Hutchison
1916
lent by Mrs Melville, Edinburgh
Exhibition included George Combe
1916
Exhibition included Hugh Miller
1916
Exhibition included Head of an infant, 1885
1916
Exhibition included Sir James Gibson-Craig of Riccarton
1916
Lent by the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet.
Exhibition included Portrait medallion
1916
Exhibition included Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales
1916
Exhibition included James Smart , Chief of Police
1916
Exhibition included A child
1916
Exhibition included Grief
1916
Exhibition included John Wilson - Christopher North
1916
Exhibition included James Coats
1916
Exhibition included William Murdoch, inventor of lighting by gas
1916
Exhibition included R. D. Clark, Esq., MA
1916
Exhibition included Prof. William Cullen
1916
Exhibition included 'As the moon on the lake's face flashes'
1916
Exhibition included Dolce far niente
1916
Exhibition included Robert Scott Lauder, RSA
1916
Exhibition included Hamlet
1916
Exhibition included Pasquccia, a Roman contadina
1916
Exhibition included Prof. George James Allman
1916
Exhibition included D. O. Hill, Esq., RSA, late Secretary of the RSA
1916
Exhibition included Portrait bust
Participants
Exhibitors included Alexander Brodie
'The artist's father'
Exhibitors included David Alexander Francis
'Study of a boy's head'
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'A Florentine priest'
Exhibitors included Thomas Campbell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James Davidson Fillans
'John Wilson - Christopher North'
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
'James Smart , Chief of Police '
Exhibitors included Alexander Carrick
'Portrait medallion'
Exhibitors included Christine Gregory
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Henry (Harry) Snell Gamley
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Brodie
'Hugh Miller'
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Gowan
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Amelia Robertson Hill
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninetieth, 1916', 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_1206636507, accessed 02 Apr 2023]
