Fine Art Society

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The Fine Art Society is an art dealership with two premises, one in New Bond Street, London (held since 1876, given a new entrance in 1881 by Edward William Godwin, and fully refurbished in 2004-05, with a New Gallery created for contemporary work) and the other in Edinburgh (Bourne Fine Art, established 1978). It was formed in 1876. Its speciality is British art and design from 1600 to the present (with the Edinburgh premises specialising in Scottish art of this period).

Historically, the Society is best known as a pioneer in the idea of the one-man exhibition, most famously that of Whistler's Venetian etchings in 1883. Living exhibitors at the London premises include John Singer Sargent, Frank Brangwyn, Walter Sickert, Lamorna Birch, Walter Crane, George Washington Lambert, Joseph Southall, Arthur Wardle, Norman Wilkinson, George Spencer Watson, Violet Lindsay and Richard Caton Woodville. Memorial exhibitions include one to Lady Alma Tadema in 1910.

The Society also puts on shows and fairs in New York, Dubai, Maastricht, Hong Kong and London. Its chairmen have included Angus Grossart The Fine Art Society will be exhibiting a one man show of the Leeds artist Raymond Booth at the Northern Art Show in Harrogate Easter 2008