Eighteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1879
Start Date: February 1879
End Date: April 1879
Type: Annual exhibition
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.
Working Classes admitted at much reduced prices.
Display Arrangement: Sculpture displayed in vestibule, no integration with other mediums.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Head of the late John E. Foley, Esq., Sculptor
Exhibition included The Snake Charmer
£52
Exhibition included Bust in marble of Dr Angus Smith
lent by James Young, Esq., of Kelly
Exhibition included Bust in marble of Dr Moffat
Exhibition included Putting the Stone
£13
Exhibition included The reaper
£10
Exhibition included Mrs McPherson
1879
Exhibition included Marble figure, trying his Strength - Gordon, son of Robert Miller, Esq.
1879
Exhibition included Bust of Robert Stephens, Esq.
1879
Exhibition included Bonny Meg
1879
In marble £84
Exhibition included Emile Berger, Esq.
1879
Exhibition included Bust of Little Teenie, Daughter of William Hamilton, Esq., Shipbuilder, Port Glasgow
1879
Exhibition included The late Mrs Maclean, Plantation
1879
Participants
Exhibitors included James Alexander Ewing
'Emile Berger, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'Putting the Stone'
Exhibitors included Wilhemina Fillans
'Bust of Little Teenie, Daughter of William Hamilton, Esq., Shipbuilder, Port Glasgow'
Exhibitors included George Edwin Ewing
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Brock
'The Snake Charmer'
Exhibitors included William Brodie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John R Gilmer
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Eighteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1879', 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_1220954266, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
