Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1894
Start Date: December 1894
End Date: February 1895
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 6 out of 19 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 late Principal Cairns
1894
Exhibition included Study
1894
£20
Exhibition included Boy's Head
1894
£12
Exhibition included H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of York
1894
Exhibition included Mr E. A. Hornel, Artist
1894
Exhibition included James Gardner Laing, RSW
1894
Exhibition included Charles J. Guthrie, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh
1894
Exhibition included Carmen
1894
£40
Exhibition included An Echo from Hellas
1894
£31 10s.
Exhibition included Sleep
1894
£150
Exhibition included Miss M. Robertson Fullarton
1894
Exhibition included William Symington, Engineer, designer and constructor of the first practical steam vessel, 1801-1802
1894
Exhibition included William Murdoch, Engineer, inventor of lighting by gas
1894
Exhibition included Sir John Fowler, Bart, CE
Exhibition included Une Grande Dame
1894
£100
marble version also offered
Exhibition included The late William Hall, Esq., Ship Builder
exhibited posthumously
Exhibition included The late Peter Esslemont, Esq.
1894
Exhibition included Model of Twenty-Point Stag Killed by Lord Burton
1894
Exhibition included Nymph at the Stream
1894
Exhibition included Silver Bust on Ebony Board
1896
Participants
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
'H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of York'
Exhibitors included William Shirreffs
Multiple works
Exhibitors included F. Edwin Elwell
'The late Peter Esslemont, Esq.'
Exhibitors included William Grant Stevenson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Henry Bain-Smith or Bainsmith
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
2 works for sale
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Seventh Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1894
October 1894
p. 44
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1894', 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_1245237823, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
