Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1896
Start Date: 1896
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 1 out of 22 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 and in vestibule.
Exhibits
Exhibition included John L. Toole, Actor
1896
Exhibition included John Macdonald, Esq., Banker, Edinburgh
1896
Exhibition included David Gauld, Artist
1896
Exhibition included By the Sea
1896
£100
Exhibition included Seven Heroines from 'Morte d'Arthur'
1896
Exhibition included Copies of Medal for Glasgow University
1896
Exhibition included Olive, daughter of Cosmo Monkhouse, Esq.
1896
Exhibition included Flora Macdonald
1896
Exhibition included Highland Mary
1896
Exhibition included Bust of a Child
1896
Exhibition included Bust of a Lady
Exhibition included Robert Louis Stevenson
1896
Exhibition included Councillor Johnston
1896
Exhibition included Dr. Alexander
1896
Exhibition included William Murdoch, Engineer, inventor of lighting by gas
exhibited in vestibule
Exhibition included The late Peter Esslemont, Esq.
exhibited in vestibule
Exhibition included William Hall
exhibited in vestibule
Exhibition included Sir George Reid
exhibited in vestibule
Exhibition included Lord Provost Mearns
1896
Exhibition included Sir John Fowler, Bart, CE
exhibited in vestibule
Exhibition included William Symington, Engineer, designer and constructor of the first practical steam vessel, 1801-1802
exhibited in vestibule
Participants
Exhibitors included William Shirreffs
'John L. Toole, Actor'
Exhibitors included William Hamilton Buchan
'Councillor Johnston'
Exhibitors included James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
'Dr. Alexander'
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
'William Murdoch, Engineer, inventor of lighting by gas'
Exhibitors included F. Edwin Elwell
'The late Peter Esslemont, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Henry Bain-Smith or Bainsmith
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George James Frampton
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Frances Hepburn
Multiple works
Exhibitors included W. Willingale Tayler
1896
Mrs. W. W. Tayler (cat. no. 1186, medallion, not for sale).
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Eighth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1896
October 1896
pp. 47, 48
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1896', 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_1245244173, accessed 04 Jun 2023]
