Artists' General Benevolent Institution
Foundation date: 1814
Function: Art charity
Policy: 'The object of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution is to assist professional Artists who are in difficulties arising from the loss of work, sickness, and old age, and to relieve widows and orphans, providing for education of children to the age of seventeen or later' - advert on the inside of the cover for the 1943 catalogue of MAFA's Spring Exhibition
History or description: Founded in 1814 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1842, it assists those living and working in the UK – excepting Scotland.
Benefits: hardship fund
Composition: professional artists
Funding types: annual subscription, donations, funding drives
Institutional and Business Connections
Collaborated with Royal Society of British Sculptors
1922
Representatives of the Society raised money for the Artists' Benevolent Fund. For example, in 1922, Reid Dick collected £380 for the Fund at the Society's annual dinner. See 'Annual Report, 1922', (1923), p. 8.
Associated People
Honorary secretary was Martin Hardie
Honorary treasurer was (Edward) Guy Dawber
Presidents included William Llewellyn
Sources
Catalogue of the 78th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1937
1937
Advert on inside cover
Catalogue of the 79th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1938
1938
Advert on inside cover
Catalogue of the 80th Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1939
1939
Advert on inside cover
Catalogue of the 81st Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1940
1940
Advert on inside cover
Catalogue of the Eighty-Fourth Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1943
1943
Advert on inside cover of catalogue
Catalogue of the Eighty-Second Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1941
1941
Advert on inside cover
Catalogue of the Eighty-Third Spring Exhibition, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 1942
1942
Advert on inside cover
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1922. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1923
26 February 1923
p. 8.
Citing this record
'Artists\' General Benevolent Institution', 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_1233928041, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
