Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1886
Start Date: August 1886
End Date: October 1886
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Held in Aberdeen Art Gallery. Sculpture Gallery now named 'Statuary'. Contained 491 pictures. Some works for sale. Commission on sales 5%. Agents: T. Wilson, Edinburgh; Lawrie & Sons, Glasgow; Dolman & Sons, London.
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: Works displayed on the landing and in the Lower Gallery.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Burns Model for the marble presented to the Wallace Monument , Stirling, by Andrew Carnegie, Esq.
Exhibition included Effie Deans
1886
Exhibition included Sketch Model of Rob Roy
1886
Exhibition included Eugene Aram
1886
Exhibition included Italian Girl
1886
Exhibition included Bringing Home the Deer
1886
Exhibition included Baby
1886
Exhibition included H.R.H. Albert Victor
1886
Exhibition included Rt Hon. W. E. Gladstone
1886
Exhibition included Medallion of a Gentleman in plaster
1886
Exhibition included Dominic Sampson
1886
Offered for sale Dominic Sampson
£4
Offered for sale Effie Deans
1886
£100
£100 in marble or £8 8s. for plaster
Offered for sale Italian Girl
1886
£50
Offered for sale Bringing Home the Deer
1886
£8
Offered for sale Baby
£35
in plaster for £3 3s.
Offered for sale H.R.H. Albert Victor
1886
£1 1s.
Offered for sale Rt Hon. W. E. Gladstone
1886
£5 5s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'Sketch Model of Rob Roy'
Exhibitors included Andrew Davidson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Grant Stevenson
'Bringing Home the Deer'
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
Multiple works
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Second Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1886
August 1886
pp. 35-36
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1886', 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_1242299643, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
