Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1893
Start Date: December 1893
End Date: February 1894
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 11 out of 25 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 exhibited together
Exhibits
Exhibition included The Moss Trooper
£210
price given for bronze version
Exhibition included The Miser
1893
£4 4s.
Exhibition included An old Soldier
1893
£16
Exhibition included A Student
1893
Exhibition included Lizzie, Daughter of John Tullis, Esq., of Glasgow
1893
Exhibition included Thomas Carlyle
1893
Exhibition included Portait Bust
1893
Exhibition included Robert Burns
1893
£120
Exhibition included Prodigious (Dominie Sampson)
lent by Mrs Macdonald of Kepplestone
Exhibition included Greek Maiden
1893
£25
marble £84
Exhibition included The Bather
1893
£84
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of William Murdoch, Engineer and Inventor of Lighting by Gas
1893
Exhibition included Castles in the Air
1893
£5 5s.
Exhibition included The Ferrier
lent by William Anderson, Esq.
Exhibition included Dandie Dinmont
1893
£5
Exhibition included The late Right Hon. John Bright
1893
Exhibition included Professor Blackie, LLD, HRSA
1893
Exhibition included Undine
lent by Mrs Macdonald of Kepplestone
Exhibition included Bas Relief of Mrs Pirie
1893
Exhibition included Portrait Medallion of the Poet William Drummond of Hawthornden
1893
Exhibition included The Water Lily
Exhibition included His Royal Highness the late Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
1893
Exhibition included Thomas Carlyle
1893
£90
Exhibition included Rev. James Kidd, DD, Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Aberdeen
presented to the Free Public Library by ex-Lord Provost Henderson
Exhibition included War
1893
Participants
Exhibitors included John Stevenson Rhind
'The Bather'
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George Anderson Lawson
'Prodigious (Dominie Sampson)'
Exhibitors included James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Birnie Rhind
'The Miser'
Exhibitors included Henry Cheffins Christie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Henry Bain-Smith or Bainsmith
'Thomas Carlyle'
Exhibitors included Frederick William Pomeroy
'An old Soldier'
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
'Castles in the Air'
Exhibitors included William Grant Stevenson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included F.S. Burnett
'The Ferrier'
Exhibitors included Thomas Woolner
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Gertrude E Isaacs
'Bas Relief of Mrs Pirie'
Exhibitors included Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Frederick Emil E. Schenck
1893
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Sixth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1893
October 1893
pp. 65-66
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1893', 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_1245060709, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
