Grafton Galleries
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. Roger Fry's two famous exhibitions of Post-Impressionist 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, first at 8 Grafton Street, and later, from 1896, in Bond Street. The manager was Francis Gerard Prange. From 1905 or earlier, Roger Fry was an advisor to the gallery; he asked William Rothenstein to advise him on exhibition content.Exhibitions
The first London exhibition of the Grafton Galleries opened on 18 February 1893; the last was probably in 1930. 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 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 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 Willi 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 King Edward VII 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 Aleksandr Borisov of St. Petersburg
- 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: 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
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 Allied Artists' Association held its annual show in the Grafton Galleries from 1916 to 1920.