Leicester Galleries
Other names: Ernest Brown and Phillips
Foundation date: 1902
Dissolution date: 1975
Active: 1902 - 1975
Function: Art dealer
History or description: Ernest Brown and Phillips was the registered company name of the Leicester Galleries. See www.ernestbrownandphillips.ltd.uk for full exhibition listing in date order and alphabetically. (accessed 26 October 2010)
Note on information entered in the database:
About half of the sculpture exhibitions held between 1917 and 1931 have been recorded in full (ie with a separate record for each of the exhibited works). Abbreviated entries have been made for other sculpture exhibitions up to 1951 (details recorded include the title, date, exhibition number and, where relevant, author of the catalogue). Posthumous exhibitions have only been recorded where they are a memorial to a recently deceased artist.
Some other noteworthy but undocumented shows include: 'Exhibition of the works in sculpture of Edgar Degas, 1834-1917' (February 1923, exhibition no. 348); 'Exhibition of Sculpture by Auguste Rodin (1854-1917)' (November 1926, exhibition no. 422); 'Exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)' (July 1931, exhibition no. 517); and 'Paintings, drawings and sculpture by Glyn Philpot, R.A. (1884-1937)' (September 1944, exhibition no. 796).
Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events
Organized New bronzes and drawings by Henry Moore (Leicester Galleries), 1951
May 1951
Organized Exhibition of sculpture, drawings and watercolours by Georg Ehrlich (Leicester Galleries), 1950
April 1950
Organized A new carving 'Lazarus' and other Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1950
March 1950
Organized Exhibition of recent sculpture including figures from the Ballet by Dora Gordine (Leicester Galleries), 1949
November 1949
Organized Jacob Epstein New Sculpture (Leicester Galleries), 1947
February 1947
Organized New sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore (Leicester Galleries), 1946
October 1946
Organized Jacob Epstein 'Lucifer' and paintings of flowers and landscapes of Epping Forest (Leicester Galleries), 1945
November 1945
Organized Sculpture by Dora Gordine (Leicester Galleries), 1945
October 1945
Organized 'Girl with Gardenias' and other recent sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1944
November 1944
Epstein had two exhibitions of flower and landscape paintings at the Leicester Galleries in December 1942 and December 1944 (exhibition nos. 764 and 802)
Organized Sculpture and drawings by Frank Dobson, ARA (Leicester Galleries), 1944
February 1944
Dobson exhibited watercolours at the Leicester Galleries in June 1941 (exhibition no. 737)
Organized 'Jacob and the Angel' and new bronzes by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1942
February 1942
Organized Exhibition of flower paintings and some new bronzes by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1940
October 1940
Organized New sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore (Leicester Galleries), 1940
January 1940
Organized The Jacob Epstein Exhibition (Adam) (Leicester Galleries), 1939
June 1939
Organized Exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Caroline Byng Lucas (Leicester Galleries), 1939
January 1939
Organized 'St. Francis' and other works in sculpture by Trevor Tennant, 1938
January 1938
Organized A Sava Botzaris exhibition of sculpture, drawings and caricature (Leicester Galleries), 1938
January 1938
Organized Exhibition of recent sculpture and drawings by Dora Gordine (Leicester Galleries), 1938
January 1938
Organized An exhibition of sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Consumatum Est) (Leicester Galleries), 1937
October 1937
Organized Exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore (Leicester Galleries), 1936
November 1936
Organized Exhibition of sculpture by Chana Orloff (Leicester Galleries), 1936
April 1936
Organized Sculpture by Alan Durst. (Leicester Galleries), 1935
December 1935
Organized The Frank Dobson Exhibition. (Leicester Galleries), 1935
April 1935
Organized Jacob Epstein Exhibition. (Behold the Man) (Leicester Galleries), 1935
March 1935
Organized Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Adrian Allinson (Leicester Galleries), 1935
January 1935
Organized Exhibition of sculpture, paintings, drawings and engravings by Leon Underwood (Leicester Galleries), 1934
April 1934
Organized Sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore (Leicester Galleries), 1933
November 1933
Organized Sculpture by Dora Gordine (Leicester Galleries), 1933
July 1933
Organized Jacob Epstein Exhibition (Leicester Galleries), 1933
May 1933
Organized Exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture by Glyn Philpot, R.A (Leicester Galleries), 1932
June 1932
Organized Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Henry Moore (Leicester Galleries), 1931
April 1931
Organized 10th Exhibition of the Seven and Five Society (Leicester Galleries), 1931
January 1931
Organized Sculpture by Frank Dobson (Leicester Galleries), 1930
May 1930 - June 1930
Organized Exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (Leicester Galleries), 1930
February 1930
Organized Sculpture by Alan Durst (Leicester Galleries), 1930
1930
Organized Memorial Exhibition of Sculpture by the Late Henry Poole, RA (Leicester Galleries), 1929
January 1929
Organized Sculpture by Eric Kennington (Leicester Galleries), 1929
1929
Kennington had an exhibition of pastel portraits of British soldiers at the Leicester Galleries in 1943 (exhibition no. 776)
Organized Exhibition of sculpture by Dora Gordine (Leicester Galleries), 1928
October 1928
Organized Sculpture, Drawings and Etchings by Vernon Hill (Leicester Galleries), 1927
December 1927
Hill had previously shown drawings and etchings at the Leicester Galleries in March 1924 (exhibition no. 367)
Organized Second Exhibition of The London Artists' Association (Leicester Galleries), 1927
November 1927
Organized Chelsea Cheyne Figures by Gwendolen Parnell (Leicester Galleries), 1927
June 1927
Organized An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson (Leicester Galleries), 1927
March 1927 - April 1927
Organized Exhibition of new work in sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1926
June 1926
Organized London Artists Association. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Bernard Adeney, Keith Baynes, Vanessa Bell, Frank Dobson, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and F. J. Porter (Leicester Galleries), 1926
May 1926 - June 1926
Organized Memorial Exhibition of works by the Late Francis Derwent Wood, RA (Leicester Galleries), 1926
March 1926 - April 1926
Organized An Exhibition of Drawings and Statuettes by the Late William Caine (Leicester Galleries), 1925
December 1925
Organized Flower Sculpture by Mrs Avery Robinson (Leicester Galleries), 1924
December 1924
Organized Sculpture and Other Works by Eric H. Kennington (Leicester Galleries), 1924
October 1924
Kennington had exhibited war pictures and Arab portraits at the Leicester Galleries in 1918 and 1921 (exhibition nos. 260 and 323)
Organized Drawings, Lithographs and Sculptures of Wild Animals by Elsie M. Henderson (Leicester Galleries), 1924
June 1924
Organized Exhibition of sculpture by Professor Utzon Frank (Leicester Galleries), 1924
June 1924
Organized Exhibition of New Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1924
January 1924 - February 1924
Organized Memorial exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by the Late J. Havard Thomas (Leicester Galleries), 1922
1922
Organized Frank Dobson, Sculpture and Drawings (Leicester Galleries), 1921
November 1921
Organized Exhibition of sculpture by Paul Manship (Leicester Galleries), 1921
June 1921
Organized Exhibition of Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1920
February 1920 - March 1920
Organized Exhibition of sculpture by the late Prof. E. Lanteri (Leicester Galleries), 1920
January 1920
Organized Exhibition of pictures by Henri Matisse and sculpture by Maillol (Leicester Galleries), 1919
November 1919 - November
Organized A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, (Leicester Galleries), 1918
May 1918 - June 1918
Organized An Exhibition of Water-Colours and Drawings by a Group of Artists Serving with His Majesty's Forces, including Recent Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leceister Galleries), 1917
October 1917
Organized An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1917
1917
Organized Exhibition of Sculpture by Jo Davidson (Leicester Galleries), 1914
June 1914 - June
Organized An exhibition of pastels and water-colours entitled 'In Sunny Places' by Fred Mayor and Sculpture by Albert Toft (Leicester Galleries), 1902
November 1902
Organized Exhibition of New Sculpture by Jacob Epstein (Leicester Galleries), 1931
February - March 1931
Institutional and Business Connections
Offer declined by Royal Society of British Sculptors
12 March 1906
Ernest Brown and Phillips proposed that the Royal Society of British Sculptors might hold an exhibition at their galleries [12 March 1906, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]
Sources
A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
1918
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings and Statuettes by the Late William Caine
1925
Catalogue of an Exhibition of New Sculpture by Jacob Epstein
1924
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Frank Dobson
1927
Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Sculpture of Jacob Epstein
1917
Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd., The Leicester Galleries. An index of 1422 catalogues of exhibitions of European Modern Art and 20th Century British Art, held between 1902 and 1977
http://www.ernestbrownandphillips.ltd.uk (accessed 17 July 2019)
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
12 March 1906.
Citing this record
'Leicester Galleries', 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/organization.php?id=msib2_1212399102, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
