NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART SOCIETY

1883 - c.1893

The Nineteenth-Century Art Society was founded 'in order to give greater facilities for the exhibition of the works of recognised and rising artists of the English and Foreign Schools'. The Nineteenth-Century Art Society at Conduit Street Gallery, the Inaugural Exhibition Now Open from 10 to 6 daily. Lighted at dusk. Freeman and Marriott, Secs.” (Times, 12 December 1883). In 1883 Mr Edward Freeman resigned the acting secretaryship of the Society of British Architects and accepted the management of the Nineteenth Century Art Society, the exhibitions of which were held at the Conduit Street Gallery up until 1892 but in 1893 they held their exhibition at the Dudley Gallery, which seem to have been their last. Members included Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847-1900), Arnold Helcke (1843-1912), Henry Maurice Page (1845-1908), Arvid Mauritz Lindstrom (1849-1923), Arthur Douglas Peppercorn (1847-1924), Edith Pradez (1836-1894) and Suffolk artist exhibitors included John Bedloe Goddard, Edwin Nichol and Vincent Philip Yglesias.