Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1887
Start Date: December 1887
End Date: February 1888
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Third annual exhibition. Some works for sale.
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 Gallery now named 'Statuary'. Works displayed on the landing and in the Lower Gallery.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Robinson Crusoe
1887
Exhibition included Alfred George Renshaw, Esq.
1887
Exhibition included The Late William Hall, Esq., Footdee, Aberdeen
1877
Exhibition included H.R.H. Prince Albert Victor
1877
Exhibition included Medallion - Portrait
Exhibition included Terra-Cotta Bust of the Late Lord Lawrence
1887
Exhibition included Autumn
1887
Exhibition included Daphnis
1887
Exhibition included The Fair Maid of Perth
1887
Exhibition included Playmates
1887
Exhibition included Playmates
Exhibition included Lady Clare
1887
Exhibition included Master Arthur Gibb
1887
Exhibition included Bedtime
1887
Exhibition included The Marquis of Salisbury, KG
1887
Exhibition included The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, MP
1887
Exhibition included The farrier
Exhibition included Hero
Exhibition included James Saint, Esq.
Offered for sale Daphnis
1887
£630
Offered for sale Playmates
£3 3s.
Offered for sale Lady Clare
1887
£16
Offered for sale Hero
£250
bronze £250, marble £25
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'Playmates'
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
'Playmates'
Exhibitors included Henry Bain-Smith or Bainsmith
'Lady Clare'
Exhibitors included Andrew Davidson
'Master Arthur Gibb'
Exhibitors included Henrietta Skerrett Montalba
'Bedtime'
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included (Joseph) Edgar Boehm
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George Anderson Lawson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Ann E Lawrence
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Third Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1887
December 1887
pp. 33-34
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1887', 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_1242305427, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
