Fine Art Society
The Fine Art Society is one of the world's oldest art galleries, with offices in London and Edinburgh . The company specializes in British art and design from the 17th to the 21st centuries and has been based at 148 New Bond Street in London since its inception.
The company was founded in 1876 and pioneered the idea of a one-man exhibition in the 19th century. The most sensational of its kind was the 1883 exhibition of James McNeill Whistler's Venetian etchings entitled An Arrangement in White and Yellow . The grant, the Whistler through this exhibition after the confrontation with art critic John Ruskin was, was like the Fine Art Society in by Ruskin in the exhibition of his collection of Turner - watercolors supported financially. In 1888 Thomas Cooper Gotch , William Ayerst Ingram and Alfred East exhibited their works together.
The gallery on New Bond Street was completely renovated between 2004 and 2005, and the New Gallery was added, which exhibits works by contemporary artists. The Bourne Fine Art in Edinburgh was established in 1978 and is the leading gallery in Scottish art from 1650 to the present. Both galleries combine their permanent exhibitions with changing exhibitions and fairs in Dubai , New York City , Hong Kong , Maastricht and London .
The Fine Art Society made a significant contribution to the revival of interest in the beginnings of the New English Art Club , the Glasgow School , the Birmingham Group , the Scottish Colourists , Aestheticism , the Arts and Crafts Movement , and interwar design through exhibitions the post-war period . Today the Fine Art Society sells works from previous exhibitions as second-hand art and promotes new directions in contemporary art.
Exhibitions by famous artists (selection)
- Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema
- Léon Bakst
- Edward Bawden
- Samuel John Birch
- Frank Brangwyn
- Walter Crane
- Christopher Dresser
- Alfred East
- Alfred Gilbert
- Herbert Gurschner
- Hubert von Herkomer
- William Holman Hunt
- William Ayerst Ingram
- Frederic Leighton
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Samuel Palmer
- Alexander Mann
- Violet Manners
- Ivan Meštrović
- John Everett Millais
- John Singer Sargent
- Walter Sickert
- Albert Chevallier Tayler
- Hamo Thornycroft
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- James McNeill Whistler