Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1885
Start Date: July 1885
End Date: September 1885
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: First exhibition.
Policy: 'Objects, to foster a taste for Art in the neighbourhood by instituting an annual Exhibition, to facilitate the intercourse of those connected with Art, and to promote the practical and theoretical study of Art. Candidates must be proposed in writing by two members. Annual elections in Jan. by ballot; entrance fee £2 2s [...] There is an Art Union in connection. Commission on sales, 5 per cent. Agents - Edinburgh, T. Wilson; Glasgow, Lawrie & Sons; London, Dolman & Sons' (Year's Art, 1887, p. 110).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture exhibited separately.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Tannahill
1885
Exhibition included The Late Dr Moffat, African Missionary
1885
Exhibition included Echo
1885
Exhibition included Sir Wyville Thomson
1885
Exhibition included Sir William Wallace
1885
Exhibition included Little Rose
1885
Exhibition included Thomas Carlyle
1885
Exhibition included Charlotte Corday
Exhibition included Allan, Son of Allan McDiarmid, Esq., Glasgow
1885
Exhibition included Hatrick, Son of Alex. Scott, Esq., Greenock
1885
Exhibition included The Murmur of the Shell
1885
Exhibition included Mr Gladstone
1885
Exhibition included I am a Lady
1885
Exhibition included The bowler
1885
Exhibition included Small Bust
Exhibition included Statuette - Art
1885
Exhibition included Statuette - Science
1885
Exhibition included Lord Byron
1885
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas Nelson MacLean
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James H Ken
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Charles MacBride
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Smith
Multiple works
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Grant Stevenson
'Sir William Wallace'
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
Multiple works
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. First Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1885
July 1885
pp. 42-43
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1885', 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_1242296061, accessed 20 Jan 2021]
