Briton Riviere RA
Born 14 August 1840
Died 20 April 1920
Active: 1897 - 1899
Painter, sculptor
Born in London. Son of William Riviere (born c.1807, London), a painter.
Works
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The Last Arrow
1899
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1899
'The Last Arrow'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'The Last Arrow'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Fifteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1897
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1858 - 1919
Exhibited 58 times, showed sculpture in 1894 ('A Dying King', cat. no. 1843), 1896 ('The Last Arrow', bronze group, cat. no. 1917) and 1897 ('Anatomical Lion', bronze, cat. no. 2099).
Exhibited at Festival of Britain, London: Ten Decades, a Review of British Taste, 1851-1951, 1951
1951
Riviere's 'A Mighty Hunter before the Lord' (representing sculpture in the period 1881-1890) was lent by the Guildhall Art Gallery, and exhibited posthumously.
Sources
Catalogue of the Fifteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1897
1897
Cat. No. 419, pp. 43, 56
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. Nos. 380 (a drawing), 796, pp. 39, 75, 107
Citing this record
'Briton Riviere RA', 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/person.php?id=msib5_1208211473, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
