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 (27 December 1867-12 April 1965), art dealer, artists' colourman, frame-maker and fine art publisher who was born in Wandsworth in 1867, the son of a tailor, and he died at Odiham, Hampshire. In 1896 Augustus Walker moved the Galleries to 118 New Bond Street and is first noticed in June 1900 with an exhibition of the works of Leighton Ward followed by the works of John Hardwicke Lewis (21 December 1843-1927) on 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 (24 October 1796-25 November 1864), Thomas Shotter Boys (2 January 1803-10 October 1874), John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782-24 May 1842), William Callow (28 July 1812-20 February 1908), Henry Holiday (17 June 1839-15 April 1927), John Frederick Lewis, John Bagnold Burgess (21 October 1829–2 November 1897), Henry Bright, Edward Morison Wimperis (6 February 1835-25 December 1900), Charles Bentley (August 1806–4 September 1854), Francis Nicholson (14 November 1753–6 March 1844), Samuel Lucas (1805–29 March 1870), James Holland (18 October 1799–12 December 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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