Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
Foundation date: 1823
Function: Art society
Policy: 'Instituted in 1859, consists of professional painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers, born or having resided for a period of not less than twelve months within a radius of twenty miles from the Town Hall of Manchester' (Year's Art, 1908, p. 210).
Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events
Organized The Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1949
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Eighty-Fifth Spring Exhibition, 1944
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Eighty-Fourth Spring Exhibition, 1943
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Eighty-Third Spring Exhibition, 1942
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 81st Spring Exhibition, 1940
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 80th Spring Exhibition, 1939
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Eighty-Second Spring Exhibition, 1941
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 75th Spring Exhibition, 1934
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 76th Spring Exhibition, 1935
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 79th Spring Exhibition, 1938
Organized Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 78th Spring Exhibition, 1937
Associated People
Associates included Thomas Mewburn Crook
Associates included James Robert Cooper
Associates included Edgar Wood
Associates included Mary McNicoll Wroe
Associates included Gertrude Eliza Wright
Associates included Amy Dimelow
Associates included Jessie Russell
Honorary members included John Warrington Wood
Honorary secretary was Mary McNicoll Wroe
Honorary secretary was Louisa Mary (Heald) Bancroft
Honorary treasurer was John Cassidy
Honorary treasurer was Walter Potts
Honorary treasurer was Elizabeth M. Chapman
Members included John Cassidy
Members included Holme Cardwell
Honorary member
Members included John M. Luxmoore
Members included Christina Myers
Members included Sydney Lee
Members included John Millard
Members included Walter Potts
Members included E. Millicent Rhodes
Members included Mary McNicoll Wroe
Members included Edgar Wood
Was on the MAFA Council in 1898
Members included Charles E. Cundall
Members included Mabel G. Deakin
Members included Francis Dodd
Members included Randolph Schwabe
Members included Jessie Russell
Members included Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Members included Amy Dimelow
Members included Pauline Boumphrey
Members included Alan Brough
Members included H. Clarence Whaite
Members included William Cartledge
Members included Doris Kathleen Flinn
Members included Emeline P. Steinthal
This may be incorrect, the member of the Manchester Academy could be Egbert Steinthal rather than Emmeline
Members included James Patchell Chettle
Members included Elizabeth M. Chapman
Members included Louisa Mary (Heald) Bancroft
Members included Chisholm Cole
1893 (Circa)
Presumed
Members included Ida Percy
1938 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Members included Arnold Forrester Warden
1949 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Members of committee included Walter Potts
Presidents included H. Clarence Whaite
Presidents included James Patchell Chettle
1935 - 1944
Sources
Catalogue of the 75th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1934
1934
Catalogue of the 76th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1935
1935
Catalogue of the 78th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1937
1937
Catalogue of the 79th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1938
1938
Catalogue of the 80th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1939
1939
Catalogue of the 81st Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1940
1940
Catalogue of the Eighteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1900
1900
pp. 1-2
Catalogue of the Eighty-Fifth Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1944
1944
Catalogue of the Eighty-Fourth Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1943
1943
Catalogue of the Eighty-Second Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1941
1941
Catalogue of the Eighty-Third Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1942
1942
Catalogue of the Eleventh Autumn Exhibition, 1893
1893
pp. 1, 2
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1878
1878
pp. 4-5
Catalogue of the Fifteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1897
1897
pp. 1-2
Catalogue of the Fourteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1896
1896
Catalogue of the Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
1901
pp. 1, 2
Catalogue of the Ninetieth Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1949
1949
Catalogue of the Ninety First Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1950
1950
Catalogue of the Ninety Second Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1951
1951
Catalogue of the Seventeenth Autumn Exhibition, 1899
1899
pp. 1-2
Catalogue of the Sixteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1898
1898
pp. 1-2
Citing this record
'Manchester Academy of Fine Arts', 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=msib5_1222972866, accessed 02 Jun 2023]