The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Fourth, 1880
End Date: 1880
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/.
Exhibits
Exhibition included General Sir John Campbell, KCBT, Esq., MT
1877
Also exhibited at RGI in 1878.
Exhibition included Thomas Purdie, Esq., Castlecliff, St Andrews
1880
Exhibition included The late Mrs H. Brown, life-long friend of Baroness Burdett-Coutts
1880
Exhibition included The late Rev. Principle Harper
1880
Exhibition included The late Mrs Connel Black of Kailzie
1880
Exhibition included Henry Irving
1880
Exhibition included Ellen Terry
1880
Exhibition included Girlhood
1880
Exhibition included Norman M. Henderson, Esq.
1880
Exhibition included Rip Van Winkle
1880
Exhibition included William McCall, Esq., Glasgow
1880
Exhibition included Miss Graham Montgomery
1880
lent by Sir G. Graham Montgomery Bart, MP
Exhibition included Miss Nisbet Hamilton
1880
lent by Lady Mary Nisbet Hamilton
Exhibition included The Lady of the Lake
1880
Exhibition included Marietta, a Roman girl
1880
Exhibition included The late George Paul Chalmers, RSA
1880
Exhibition included Bust of a gentleman
1880
Exhibition included Marble monument in memory of the late George Paul Chalmers RSA... in Dean Cemetery
1880
Exhibition included A halberdier
1880
Exhibition included A Belgian peasant
1880
Exhibition included Head of the late Alexander Kirkwood, Senr
1880
Participants
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
'Marble monument in memory of the late George Paul Chalmers RSA... in Dean Cemetery'
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Mary Grant
'Miss Nisbet Hamilton'
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Brodie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
'The Lady of the Lake'
Exhibitors included George Washington Andrew Kinloch
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Robina Sophia Crawford
'General Sir John Campbell, KCBT, Esq., MT'
Exhibitors included Francesco Fabi-Altini
'Thomas Purdie, Esq., Castlecliff, St Andrews'
Sources
The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, MDCCCLXX, The Fifty-Fourth
1880
Illustrated catalogue, 1880-1882
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Fifty-Fourth, 1880', 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_1206974475, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
