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The Grafton Galleries, often referred to as the Grafton Gallery, was an
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in
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, London. The French
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Paul Durand-Ruel Paul Durand-Ruel (; 31 October 1831 – 5 February 1922) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he ...
showed the first major exhibition in Britain of
Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
paintings there in 1905.
Roger Fry Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 â€“ 9 September 1934) was an English painter and art critic, critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent ...
's two famous exhibitions of
Post-Impressionist Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction a ...
works in 1910 and 1912 were both held at the gallery.


History

The date of foundation of the Grafton Galleries is not certain; some sources give 1873, when it had an address in Liverpool. The gallery was incorporated in London on 16 June 1891, and opened in February 1893 at 8 Grafton Street, with an extensive suite of rooms extending to
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. (The address was usually given as Grafton Street-Bond Street). The building was designed by John Thomas Wimperis (1829-1904) and William Henry Arber (1849-1904). The first manager was Francis Gerard Prange. By the early 1900s Venant Benoist, a French-born caterer working in Piccadilly, was the manager, and the buildings were let out for receptions, dinners, concerts and dances. The downstairs banqueting hall, hung with the famous groups of the
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painted by
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, was described by ''The Times'' as "one of the most beautiful dining rooms in London". From 1905 or earlier, Roger Fry was an advisor to the gallery; he asked
William Rothenstein Sir William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art. Though he covered many subjects – ranging from landscapes in France to representations of Jewish synag ...
to advise him on exhibition content. In 1930 a Mr Hurcomb of Piccadilly bought the lease and converted the premises into an auction house,'The Grafton Galleries: A Closed Chapter', in ''The Times'', 5 December 1930, p. 17 but it was still occasionally used for exhibitions until around 1936. The building was damaged in the Second World War and not restored.


Exhibitions

The first London exhibition of the Grafton Galleries opened on 18 February 1893. Despite many ups and downs, the Galleries were still in use in 1936. In 1894 ''Fair Women'' - which according to Meaghan Clarke was the Victorian equivalent of a contemporary blockbuster exhibition - featured historical and contemporary portraits of 'fair' women. Takings over the run of the show reached £8,000.Meaghan Clarke.
Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics: Fair Women
' (2021)
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: * 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
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* 1894: Fair women, loan exhibition of English portraits * 1894: Fourth exhibition of Grafton Gallery, including a retrospective exhibition of work of Albert Joseph Moore, 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, loan exhibition of English portraits * 1896: Sixth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters * 1896: Pictures representing the loss of
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's expedition to the
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, painted by
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* 1896, January–March: A loan collection of modern pictures, chiefly of the
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and Dutch schools, with a collection of 200 original drawings by and others * 1896, April:
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'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
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* 1898: Catalogue of pictures which belong to 68, Princes Gate * 1898: Collection of pictures by Old Masters formed by
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* 1898: ''
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'' 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 James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres, KT, FRS, FRAS (28 July 184731 January 1913) was a Scottish astronomer, politician, ornithologist, bibliophile and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society, Crawford wa ...
, manuscripts and examples of metal and ivory bindings exhibited to the
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, from the
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's collection * 1899:
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, 1838–1905 * 1899, January:
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exhibition:
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, 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
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, of New York * 1900: Fourteenth exhibition of the
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* 1900: Ninth exhibition of the Society of Portrait Painters * 1900, summer: Exhibition of a special selection from the works by
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, including a few portraits of
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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 Willi Wolf Rudinoff (an alias of Wilhelm Morgenstern), including examples in oil, water-colour, etching, and dry point * 1901, March–April:
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, 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
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, and one hundred pencil studies by Violet Manners, Marchioness of Granby * 1902, March:
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, third annual exhibition * 1902, November: Works by Emil Fuchs, the designer of the
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and the King's head on the new
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* 1903, January:
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, 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
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exposés par M.
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* 1903, May–July: French masters exhibition * 1904, January:
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, fifth annual exhibition * 1904, December:
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, sixth annual exhibition * 1905, January–February: pictures by
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Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
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Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 â€“ 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...
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Camille Pissarro Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( ; ; 10 July 1830 â€“ 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). ...
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...
and
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, 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
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, including a few works by
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, one of the Maris brothers, and other artists * 1905, December:
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, seventh annual exhibition * 1906: Munich fine art exhibition * 1906, January: Eighth exhibition of the
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* 1906, July: International Congress of Architects in London * 1906, December:
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, eighth annual exhibition * 1907: Exhibition of paintings and sketches of the Polar regions by Aleksandr Borisov of
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* 1907: Exhibition of works by members of the Société des aquarellistes français and the Société des peintres de la marine * 1907, November–December: Special exhibition, United Arts Club * 1908, January:
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, ninth annual exhibition * 1908, February–March: Fourth exhibition of the United Arts Club * 1908, April: Indian princes,
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, Italian landscapes, and other pictures * 1908, May–July: Exhibition of paintings by
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* 1908, October–November: The Franco-British Art Association, joint exhibition of
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, Arsène Chabanian * 1908, December:
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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
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* 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 * 1913-14, October-June: Old Spanish Masters * 1914, October-December: Modern Spanish Art * 1917, July-August: Canadian Battle Pictures (second 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 * 1936, May, Wedgwood Exhibition Other artists who exhibited at the gallery include
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, Alfred Egerton Cooper,
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Christopher Nevinson Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (13 August 1889 â€“ 7 October 1946) was an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, who was one of the most famous war artists of World War I. He is often referred to by his initial ...
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Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscapes, and still-life. He was one of the leading promoters of abstract art in England. Backg ...
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Glyn Philpot Glyn Warren Philpot (5 October 188416 December 1937) was a British painter and sculptor, best known for his portraits of contemporary figures such as Siegfried Sassoon and Vladimir Rosing. Early life Philpot was born in Clapham, London, but ...
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William Bruce Ellis Ranken William Bruce Ellis Ranken (11 April 1881 – 31 March 1941) was a British artist and Edwardian aesthete. Early life and education He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Robert Ranken, Robert Burt Ranken, a wealthy and successful lawyer, an ...
, Frank Salisbury,
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and
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. 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; and the
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held its annual show in the Grafton Galleries from 1916 to 1920.


References


Further reading

* Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich (eds.) (2012). ''The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London, 1850–1939''. Manchester: Manchester University Press {{Authority control Defunct art galleries in London