GOUPIL GALLERY

1857 - ?

The Goupil Gallery was opened at 17 Southampton Street, London in 1857 as the London branch of the French Goupil et Deforge on the boulevard Montmartre in Paris, which had been established in 1827 by Adolphe Goupil (1806-) which first specialising in old masters, the gallery eventually began to show contemporary artists and installed at a new primary location at 2 Place de l'Opera. The London branch in its early years, was primarily a print shop, and the business gradually expanded to include paintings and drawings. With a move to 25 Bedford Street in 1875, the firm began holding regular exhibitions of European paintings and watercolours. It 1883 it moved to 116-117 New Bond Street and was at 5 Regent Street from 1893 until 1931 and where the Senefelder Club held their exhibitions from 1910. It was managed by Charles Obach (1841-1921), for a brief time then David Croal Thomson (1855-1930) and for many years by William Marchant (1868-1925) who had been educated in France and worked in the company's Paris office in the 1890s and he took Goupil over as his own company. In the late nineteenth century, the gallery exhibited the work of James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), Charles Edward Conder (1868-1909), and Philip Wilson Steer, and the Barbizon school painters. In 1914 the inaugural exhibition of the then newly established London Group of Artists was held the Gallery. The Gallery was destroyed by enemy bombing in during the Second World War.

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