The Art Union of Glasgow
Other names: Glasgow Art Union
Foundation date: 1841
Active: 1841 -
Function: Promotion of art, a lottery
Policy: The purchase of paintings, Drawings, Sculpures, Engravings, and other works of Art. Also acted as agent in exchanging money for works of art.
Rules: One Guinea membership for one year. Each member was entitled to the presentation work for the year of subscription, and a share in the annual ballot of prizes.
History or description: Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1861. Patron, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Benefits: eligible for awards, grants and prizes, prizes
Funding types: annual subscription
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.
Lent Bruce
1856
Lent Wallace
1856
Publications
Advertised in Annual Exhibition Catalogue for The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1887
p. 19
Sources
Annual Exhibition Catalogue for The Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1887
1887
p. 19
Glasgow Art Club 1867-1967 Glasgow Art Club, the first hundred years
1967
p. 37
Citing this record
'The Art Union of Glasgow', 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=msib6_1220956635, accessed 20 Jun 2021]
