WALKER'S GALLERIES
Walker's Galleries was founded around 1890 at 115-116 New Bond Street, London and was part of the Goupil Group and managed by Augustus Joel Walker (1868-1965), art dealer, artists' colourman, frame-maker and fine art publisher who was born in Wandsworth in 1868, the son of a tailor and he died at Odiham, Hampshire, three years short of his century. In 1896 Augustus Walker moved the Galleries to 118 New Bond Street and is first noticed with an exhibition of the works of Leighton Ward in June 1900 followed by the works of John Hardwick Lewis (1841-1927) 16-31 May 1901 and his gallery staged the first exhibition of the Seven and Five Society of Artists in April 1920. The Gallery published 'Walker’s Quarterly' 1920-1932, each issue devoted to a monograph on an individual artist or a specific aspect of art. These included David Roberts (1796-1864), Thomas Shotter Boys (1803-1874), John Sell Cotman (1782-1842), William Callow (1812-1908), Henry Holiday (1839-1927), John Frederick Lewis, John Bagnold Burgess (1829–1897), Henry Bright, Edward Morison Wimperis (1835-1900), Charles Bentley (1808–1854), Francis Nicholson (1753–1844), Samuel Lucas (1805–1870), James Holland (1799–1870), and others. Its closure was announced in the Westminster and Pimlico News of 5 January 1962 and refers to the exhibition of Whistler's work in 1892 when the gallery was part of the Goupil Group and the 1896 move by Augustus Walker to 118 New Bond Street. Suffolk artists who exhibited at Walker's Galleries include Alan Blyth, Alice Levine Fowler, Sybil Hamilton Hastings, Helen Jane Mackenzie, Finlay Mackinnon, Alfred William Rich, Jørgen Francis Sedgwick, Tom Simpson, Mabel Mary Spanton, Emma Thornhill, Tom Van Oss, John George Walker and Evelyn Jane Whyley. It is sometimes referred to as Walker's 'Gallery'
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