Exhibition of Works of Living Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1863
Start Date: October 1863
End Date: January 1864
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Musical promenades and conversaziones took place on Monday evenings during the Exhibition.
A one hundred guinea premium awarded to the artist of the best picture. No equivalent award offered to sculptors.
Policy: Abridged from the Notice to Purchasers:
1. Copyright of work to remain with artist unless otherwise stated at time of purchase.
2. One quarter of price of work to be paid at time of purchase.
3. Purchasers must intimate sale to the Acting Secretary, not the artist.
4. The absence of price does not imply that the work is NOT for sale.
Display Arrangement: All sculpture exhibited together in one room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Sheriff Strathern
Exhibition included Little Nell
£10
Exhibition included Bust
Exhibition included Little Nell
£10
Exhibition included Bust
Exhibition included Lieutenant Colonel Dreghorn
Exhibition included Bust of W. C. Shaw, Esq.
Exhibition included Cupid caught flying
£315
Exhibition included Mother and Child
£315
Exhibition included The Mask
£3
available in marble for £52
Exhibition included The hop queen
£3
in marble for £52
Exhibition included Lord Elcho, MP
Exhibition included Bust
Exhibition included Marble bust
Exhibition included Mima
1863
Exhibition included Day Dream in the Hayfield
Plaster copy - £16
Marble copy - £157
Exhibition included Thomas Faed, Esq., ARA, HRSA
Exhibition included H. A. Lambeth, Esq., organist and conductor of Choral Union, Glasgow
Exhibition included Bust of General Sir James Outram
Participants
Exhibitors included Andrew Smith Brewster
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Henry Foley
'Bust of General Sir James Outram'
Exhibitors included Edward Davis
Multiple works
Exhibitors included W Cochran
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George Abbott
'Bust of W. C. Shaw, Esq.'
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
Multiple works
Exhibitors included J M Barclay
'Sheriff Strathern'
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
Multiple works
Sources
Annual Exhibition Catalogue for The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1863
October 1863
p. 31
Citing this record
'Exhibition of Works of Living Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1863', 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_1220891449, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
