Grafton Galleries

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Grafton Galleries

Eugène Samuel Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917), poster for an exhibition of French decorative art at the Grafton Galleries, 1893
Formation 1893 or earlier
Extinction c. 1930
Type Art gallery
Location 8 Grafton Street, London
Bond Street, London
Coordinates 51°30′36″N 0°08′37″W / 51.51°N 0.1437°W / 51.51; -0.1437Coordinates: 51°30′36″N 0°08′37″W / 51.51°N 0.1437°W / 51.51; -0.1437
Manager Francis Gerard Prange
Secretary Henry Bishop
Parent organization Grafton Galleries Co Ltd

The Grafton Galleries, often referred to as the Grafton Gallery, was an art gallery in Mayfair, London. The French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel showed the first major exhibition in Britain of Impressionist paintings there in 1905.[1] Roger Fry's two famous exhibitions of Post-Impressionist works in 1910 and 1912 were both held at the gallery.[2]

History

The entrance to the Grafton Galleries, Illustrated London News, 25 February 1893
The Octagon Gallery at the Grafton Galleries, The Graphic, 25 February 1893
The Long Gallery at the Grafton Galleries, The Graphic, 25 February 1893

The date of foundation of the Grafton Galleries is not certain; some sources give 1873, when it had an address in Liverpool.[3] The gallery was incorporated in London on 16 June 1891, and opened in February 1893,[4][5] first at 8 Grafton Street, and later, from 1896, in Bond Street. The manager was Francis Gerard Prange.[3] From 1905 or earlier, Roger Fry was an advisor to the gallery; he asked for advice from William Rothenstein on exhibition content.[4]

Exhibitions

The first London exhibition of the Grafton Galleries opened on 18 February 1893; the last was probably in 1930.[3] The most celebrated exhibitions held there were Paul Durand-Ruel's Impressionist show of 1905, and the two Post-Impressionist exhibitions put on by Roger Fry: Manet and the Post-Impressionists in 1910–11, and the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition of 1912.

Exhibitions held at the gallery include:[3][6][7]

  • 1893, February: First exhibition, consisting of paintings and sculpture, by British and foreign artists of the present day
  • 1893, May: Second exhibition, consisting of the third exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters, by British and foreign artists of the present day
  • 1893, November–December: First exhibition of French artists in decorative art
  • 1894: Fair women
  • 1894: Fourth exhibition of Grafton Gallery, including a retrospective exhibition of work of Albert Moore, and a general collection of British and foreign works
  • 1895: Winter exhibition of the works of old Scottish portrait painters, with a selection of the pictures of John Thomson of Duddingston and a collection of old Scottish silver and weapons
  • 1895: Fair children
  • 1896: Sixth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters
  • 1896: Pictures representing the loss of Sir John Franklin's expedition to the North Pole, painted by Julius von Payer
  • 1896, January–March: A loan collection of modern pictures, chiefly of the Barbizon and Dutch schools, with a collection of 200 original drawings by Paul Renouard and others
  • 1896, April: Charles Sedelmeyer's fine art exhibition
  • 1897: Exhibition of dramatic and musical art
  • 1897: Society of Miniaturists exhibition
  • 1897: Seventh exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters
  • 1897: Summer exhibition of members' work, Society of Miniaturists
  • 1897, January: Exhibition of the works of Ford Madox Brown
  • 1898: Catalogue of pictures which belong to 68, Princes Gate
  • 1898: Collection of pictures by Old Masters formed by David Sellar
  • 1898: The Gentlewoman photographic competition, exhibition of prize pictures
  • 1898: Eighth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters
  • 1898, April–May: Exhibition of Australian art in London
  • 1898, June: Bibliotheca Lindesiana, manuscripts and examples of metal and ivory bindings exhibited to the Bibliographical Society
  • 1899: Siegfried Bing, 1838–1905
  • 1899, January: Vasily Vereshchagin exhibition: Napoleon I, 1812, from a sketch made by an eye-witness
  • 1899, October–December: Exhibition of modern French art, with a representative collection of the artistic work of Louis Tiffany, of New York
  • 1900: Fourteenth exhibition of the Ridley Art Club
  • 1900: Ninth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters
  • 1900, summer: Exhibition of a special selection from the works by George Romney, including a few portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton by other artists
  • 1900, December: Exhibition of a second selection from the works by George Romney, including a few portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton, by other artists
  • 1901: Exhibition of South African pictures by R. Gwelo Goodman
  • 1901: Exhibition of works by Willy Wolf Rudinoff, including examples in oil, water-colour, etching, and dry point
  • 1901, March–April: Women's International Art Club, second annual exhibition
  • 1902: Exhibition of the works of Emil Fuchs
  • 1902: Works by the late Archibald Stuart Wortley, founder and president of the Society of Portrait Painters
  • 1902: Portraits by the late Benjamin Constant, and one hundred pencil studies by Violet Manners, Marchioness of Granby
  • 1902, March: Women's International Art Club, third annual exhibition
  • 1902, November: Works by Emil Fuchs, the designer of the Coronation medal and the King's head on the new postage stamps
  • 1903, January: Women's International Art Club, fourth annual exhibition
  • 1903, March: Modern Celtic ornament as applied to gold and silver plate, pewter, jewelry, carpets, garden pottery, sundials, etc.
  • 1903, May: Bijoux et objets d'art exposés par M. René Lalique
  • 1903, May–July: French masters exhibition
  • 1904, January: Women's International Art Club, fifth annual exhibition
  • 1904, December: Women's International Art Club, sixth annual exhibition
  • 1905, January-February: pictures by Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley, exhibited by Paul Durand-Ruel and Sons, from Paris
  • 1905: Annual exhibition of the Society of Miniaturists
  • 1905, March: Exhibition by Emil Fuchs
  • 1905, May: Exhibition of a selection from the collection of the late James Staats Forbes, including a few works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles-François Daubigny, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Jean-François Millet, Jozef Israëls, Anton Mauve, one of the Maris brothers, and other artists
  • 1905, December: Women's International Art Club, seventh annual exhibition
  • 1906: Munich fine art exhibition
  • 1906, January: Eighth exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
  • 1906, July: International Congress of Architects in London
  • 1906, December: Women's International Art Club, eighth annual exhibition
  • 1907: Exhibition of paintings and sketches of the Polar regions by Alexander Borissoff of St. Petersburg
  • 1907: Exhibition of works by members of the Société des aquarellistes français and the Société des peintres de marine
  • 1907, November–December: Special exhibition, United Arts Club
  • 1908, January: Women's International Art Club, ninth annual exhibition
  • 1908, February–March: Fourth exhibition of the United Arts Club
  • 1908, April: Indian princes, Kew Gardens, Italian landscapes, and other pictures
  • 1908, May–July: Exhibition of paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
  • 1908, October–November: The Franco-British Art Association, joint exhibition of Frits Thaulow, Hippolyte Camille Delpy, Arsène Chabanian
  • 1908, December: Georges Petit of Paris, second annual London salon of original etchings
  • 1908: Pictures and drawings in the National Loan Exhibition in aid of the National Gallery Funds
  • 1910, April-May: Tenth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
  • 1910, May-June: Exhibition of Fair Women; International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
  • 1910: Manet and the Post-Impressionists
  • 1911, April-May: Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
  • 1911, June-July: A Century of Art, 1810-1910
  • 1912, April-May: Twelfth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
  • 1912, June-July: Exhibition of Fair Children
  • 1912: Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition
  • 1921, April-May: The Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers; Twenty-seventh London Exhibition
  • 1922, April-May: The Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers; Twenty-eighth London Exhibition

Other artists who exhibited at the gallery include Frank Brangwyn, John Lavery, William Orpen, Christopher Nevinson, Ben Nicholson, Glyn Philpot, William Bruce Ellis Ranken, Frank Salisbury, John Singer Sargent, James Jebusa Shannon and George Fiddes Watt.[1]

The Ridley Art Club held its annual exhibition at the gallery from 1897 to 1919; the Society of Miniaturists held its annual exhibition there from 1905 until 1926;[3] and the Allied Artists' Association held its annual show in the Grafton Galleries from 1916 to 1920.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grafton Galleries. Artist Biographies: British and Irish Artists of the 20th Century. Accessed September 2013.
  2. ↑ Benedict Nicolson (January 1951). Post-Impressionism and Roger Fry. The Burlington Magazine 93 (574): 10-15. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 [s.n.] (2006). Grafton Galleries Co Ltd University of Glasgow: Exhibition Culture in London 1878-1908. Accessed September 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Anne Helmreich (2012). The Socio-Geography of Art Dealers and Commercial Galleries in Early Twentieth-Century London, in: Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context. Accessed September 2013.
  5. ↑ Gerry Beegan (2007). The Studio: Photomechanical Reproduction and the Changing Status of Design. Design Issues. The MIT Press. 23 (4): 46-61. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ Philip Athill (January 1985). The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers. The Burlington Magazine 127(982): 21-29+33. (subscription required)
  7. ↑ The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Glasgow University|. Accessed September 2013.

Further reading

  • Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich (eds.) (2012). The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850–1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press


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