Exhibitions

James McNeill Whistler

The Original Printmaker 19 Jun - 25 Jul 2020 London James McNeill Whistler was one of the first and most illustrious artists to show in our gallery’s history. The Fine Art Society was the scene of one of his greatest triumphs, the exhibition he called Arrangement in White and Yellow held in 1883. It was a revolutionary show conceived by... Read more

John Byrne

Welcome to My World 19 Jun - 25 Jul 2020 Edinburgh John is an epiphany baby, born 6th January 1940. 2020 began, then, with a notable birthday and an unreasonably busy calendar that included a new theatre production, in conversations, a television profile, a legion of requests that are patiently accepted and a gallery show. Much of it to celebrate him... Read more

Ron Sandford

114°E / 1°W Hong Kong to Shetland 14 May - 13 Jun 2020 Edinburgh Hong Kong and Yell: two halves of The Fine Art Society’s first exhibition of drawings by Ron Sandford (b.1937). Island life from two geographically and culturally distinct and distant places are united in Ron’s appreciation of the commonplace – or common place – both richly detailed microcosms. In the mid... Read more

Hang 3 //

Scottish Painting 1950-1980 19 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 Edinburgh The decades following WW2 saw artists take new forms of artistic expression. The order and rationalism that had preceded was rejected. Painting became more gestural and instinctive; this was achieved through the application of paint not just from brushes but palette knives and any other means that gave the artist... Read more

John Halliday

The Monkey Palace 6 - 28 Mar 2020 Edinburgh Now in his late 80s, John Halliday lives two doors away from where he was born in Kirkcudbright. Life and travels have taken him far and wide to complete this circle. His childhood in the town brought him in contact with the likes of Jessie M King, her husband, EA... Read more

John Clerk Of Eldin 1728-1812

13 - 29 Feb 2020 Edinburgh A prominent figure in Enlightenment circles, John Clerk began producing prints in his 40s with the encouragement of English landscape painter Paul Sandby and architect Robert Adam. The three took drawing trips together having met through the business dealings of their families. Clerk produced sets of etchings that were sold... Read more

Hang 2 //

Scottish Painting 1900-1940 13 Feb - 14 Mar 2020 Edinburgh The years 1900 to 1939 saw Britain move from a period of relative innocence and comfort to the trauma of war. After World War 1, artists retreated to more traditional, figurative art. The brutality of war encouraged them to step away from the radical. Amongst the artists whose pictures have... Read more

The Print Show

13 Jan - 8 Feb 2020 Edinburgh The Print Show presented an annual exhibition of Scottish printmaking, featuring three centuries of etchings, drypoint, woodcuts and lithography. Exhibited artists included: Sir Muirhead Bone, James Mcbey, Gerald Brockhurst, Robert Sargent Austin, Charles Tunnicliffe, William Wilson, Ian Fleming, James Mcintosh Patrick Read more

Scottish Painting 1650-1950

15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh 1650 to 1950 was a presentation of three centuries of Scottish Painting, from 17 th century works by William Gouw Ferguson through still life, landscape painting and portraiture to the 20th century. Included were works by Alexander Runciman, Alexander Nasmyth, John Knox, Horatio McCulloch, Sam Bough, Arthur Melville, Sir D... Read more

Fiona Dean

The arrangement of skin 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh The arrangement of skin, was an exhibition of taxidermy art by Fiona Dean. Blending science and artistry, Dean showcases a variety of bird species in surprising and unconstrained arrangements. Dean’s fascination with the process of taxidermy became an artistic calling following training with Scottish taxidermist George Jamieson in 2012. Dean’s... Read more

Timorous Beasties

15 Nov - 23 Dec 2019 Edinburgh Design duo Timorous Beasties returned to The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh for their third exhibition, showcasing a series of folding privacy screens. Each featured a unique screenprinted design over their signature fabrics. Timorous Beasties was founded in Glasgow in 1990 by Alistair McAuley and Paul Simmons, who met studying... Read more

John Byrne

Then Till Now 27 Sep - 9 Nov 2019 Edinburgh John Byrne: Then Till Now was a small exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints by John Byrne, dating from the late 1960s to today. Early works included watercolours signed 'Patrick' and a hand painted guitar from 1968. Robbie Coltrane was depicted as Danny McGlone from the BBC's Tutti Frutti, written... Read more

Intimate

A Portrait 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Edinburgh Close and personal portraiture: painting, sculpture and photography by living and twentieth century artists whose sitters are closest to them or whose inner workings engage them, sometimes the artist themselves. Scottishness links the artists, be that by birth, training or home. Read more

Nicole Farhi

Writing Heads 25 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Edinburgh Writing Heads was an exhibition of 25 busts of 20th century novelists and playwrights sculpted in ciment fondu and painted by Nicole Farhi MRSS, from Françoise Sagan to Muriel Spark and Samuel Beckett. Farhi models her figures as a response to their identity and work, sculpting after her feelings towards... Read more

Holy Rood

Norman McBeath and Robert Crawford 31 May - 22 Jun 2019 Edinburgh Holy Rood presented a series of 7 photographs by Edinburgh based photographer and printmaker Norman McBeath that ran along side a long form poem by Robert Crawford. Holy Rood is a translation of the untitled Old English poem ‘The Dream of the Rood’. The collaboration between Crawford and McBeath sees... Read more

The Sublime And The Beautiful

31 May - 20 Jul 2019 Edinburgh The Sublime And The Beautiful was an exhibition of Scottish artworks from the 17th through 21st centuries. Incorporating oil, watercolour, sculpture and printmaking, the exhibited works depicted the sublime or the beautiful in their portrayals of nature, mythology, death and humanity. William Gouw Ferguson, Alexander Runciman, Alexander Nasmyth, John Knox,... Read more

John McLean

Behind the Mirror 3 - 25 May 2019 Edinburgh The work in this show was produced in the face of considerable adversity. John was diagnosed with MSA/P – a nasty, neurological disease with some symptoms similar to Parkinson’s - but continued to visit his studio twice a week to produce a remarkable body of work. At the time he... Read more

Tim Pomeroy

Marble Slate Wood 16 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Edinburgh Based on northern European archaeology, natural history and the everyday designed world, the sculptures on display were made in traditional sculptural materials: stone, wood, slate, and marble. The forms, shapes and ideas are both contemporary and ancient. The Neolithic archaeological finds of Arran inspire Pomeroy. They lend his work a... Read more

John McLean

The Boston Pictures, 1982 12 Oct - 10 Nov 2018 Edinburgh The Boston Pictures, 1982 was an exhibition of works by John McLean, regarded internationally as one of Britain’s most significant abstract painters. In 1982, a teaching job at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School took John McLean to America. Upon arrival, he discovered that his workload was lighter than... Read more

Fleming At Fifty

Radicals, Pioneers and Rebels 15 Aug - 3 Sep 2018 Edinburgh In partnership with The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the exhibition showcased historic nineteenth and early twentieth Scottish paintings in modern and timely contexts, focusing on pioneering female artists, migration and refugee status, and the endless search for truth in art. The exhibition centred around six historic paintings from the Fleming Collection... Read more

Assemblage

Found Objects and Boxed Reliefs 20 Jul - 11 Aug 2018 Edinburgh As part of Edinburgh Art Festival (26 July – 26 August 2018), Assemblage focused on Scottish artists’ contribution to the medium pioneered by Cubism and Surrealism, exploring the significance of found objects and constructed narratives in conveying history and cultural identity. With works by a variety of artists and covering... Read more

Robert Powell

Between the Lost Places 20 Jul - 3 Sep 2018 Edinburgh Powell’s minutely detailed etchings and sculptures often depict satirical and dark humoured scenes, referencing art history, literature and modern society. Between The Lost Places is a meditation on real and imagined topographies, cartography and modern travel, recalling the sensibility of his home city of Edinburgh. A graduate of Edinburgh College... Read more

Ten Paintings By A. R. Sturrock RSA (1885-1953)

15 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 Edinburgh Alick Riddell Sturrock RSA (1885-1953), brought together ten works depicting scenes across Scotland and England. Sturrock had great affinity with rural and country locales; a love reflected in his art. The ten exhibited paintings represent the breadth of Sturrock’s depictions – from farmhouses and cottages to lochs, coastal scenes and... Read more

Will Maclean

Narratives 20 Apr - 12 May 2018 Edinburgh Will Maclean’s art serves as a tangible record and reference to culture, tradition, history and identity. A proponent of box construction art and the examination of found objects, the narratives in his works document the cultural and practical traditions of Scottish Highland and coastal communities. Alongside his academic career at... Read more

John Byrne

The Boy and the Jabberwock 28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 Edinburgh This exhibition included John Byrne's work in theatre, film and television through preliminary drawings and character sketches from Tutti Frutti, The Slab Boys and Writer's Cramp. A highlight among these was a framed storyboard from the film adaptation of The Slab Boys, showcasing Byrne's involvement in the project and the... Read more

Barbara Balmer 1929-2017

28 Feb - 29 Mar 2018 Edinburgh Barbara Balmer 1929-2017 was an exhibition of landscapes, still lifes and portraits in oil and watercolour by Barbara Balmer RSA RSW RGI. Balmer first visited Italy in 1973, and the experience had a dramatic effect on her art. She painted large-scale stylised landscapes of the Tuscan landscape, using soft colour... Read more

Gerald Brockhurst

A Private Collection 1 - 28 Feb 2018 London Comprising works created between 1920 and 1945, this private collection covered the greater part of the artist’s printmaking practice. Born in Birmingham in 1890, Brockhurst showed promising signs of his artistic talent while very young: the then headmaster of the Birmingham School of Art even announced he had discovered ”a... Read more

Alan Davie

Abstracts 8 - 29 Jan 2018 London Providing an opportunity to consider the breadth of the career of Alan Davie (1920-2014) , the exhibition presented a retrospective view of the artist’s work over six decades from 1945 to 2005. The twenty-two works reflected Davie’s early interest in jazz music, and the spontaneous and automatic practice of painting... Read more

Ethel Gabain

A Distinctive Look 27 Nov 2017 - 3 Jan 2018 London This exhibition highlighted many of Ethel Gabain’s characteristic lithographs. It followed on from a successful show earlier this year that introduced her work to a new audience, and re-established her reputation as one of the most skilled and engaging artist-printmakers of her generation. For this exhibition the gallery brought together... Read more

British Design

27 Nov 2017 - 3 Jan 2018 London From Edward William Godwin's remodelling of the gallery's facade in 1881 to James Whistler's redesigning of the gallery space for his seminal exhibition Arrangement in White and Yellow, the gallery has held a long engagment with designers and the decorative arts. The gallery's history represents an intersection of these two... Read more

Modern Paintings 1940-1985

24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017 Modern Scottish Paintings 1940-1985, was exhibition of works created by Scottish artists in a period that emphasised individualism and rebellion against perceived safety and mundanity in the art that preceded it. Central to the exhibition was the large scale Teddy Boys by Pat Douthwaite, painted two years into her career... Read more

Vigorous Imagination

Then and Now 26 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 Edinburgh 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of the ground-breaking exhibition ‘The Vigorous Imagination: New Scottish Art’ presented at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 1987 as the lead Edinburgh International Festival art exhibition. In 1987, The Vigorous Imagination showcased the works of 17 young artists who were making waves... Read more

Lasting Impressions

British Prints from the 19th and 20th Centuries 3 Oct - 21 Nov 2017 London Ranging from James McNeill Whistler's visionary etchings of the late 19th century to Victor Pasmore's abstract screenprints of the 1960s, this exhibition presented 19th and 20th century prints by the following British artists: Frank Auerbach, Edward Bawden, Robert Bevan, Edmund Blampied, Gerald Brockhurst, Edward Calvert, David Young Cameron, Geoffrey Clarke,... Read more

John Byrne

Lullaby of Broadway 12 - 29 Sep 2017 London Lullaby of Broadway was the fifth solo exhibition of acclaimed Scottish painter John Byrne at our London gallery. The title of the show is a song known to many. First sung by the Dorsey Brothers in the musical, The Gold Diggers of 1935, the Andrew Sisters took it up a... Read more

The Glasgow Boys 1870-1910

21 Jul - 28 Aug 2017 Edinburgh In a reaction to the prescribed approach to the Victorian painting of the late nineteenth century, the Glasgow Boys sought a new and ‘modern’ style of painting, where their compositions showed a particular interest in rural realism, in working out-of-doors, and in French-inspired tonal and compositional techniques. This exhibition brought... Read more

Ornis Logos

Paintings, Prints, Taxidermy 21 Jun - 28 Aug 2017 Edinburgh Ornis Logos: an ornithologically themed exhibition of paintings, prints, taxidermy and design from Scottish artists spanning 300 years. The exhibition included one off prints on canvas by Timorous Beasties, taxidermy by Fiona Dean, and deconstructed taxidermy by Silvy Weatherall. Additional works by William Gouw Ferguson, Alexander Fraser Jnr, Edwin Alexander,... Read more

Modern British Sculpture

20 Jun - 7 Jul 2017 London Modern British Sculpture presented an exhibition of works spanning the whole of the twentieth century. Featuring sculptures made from a variety of media and techniques: from academic cast bronzes, to primal stone carvings, to hand-modeled post-war assemblages, these works reflect the rapid trajectory British sculpture over the course of... Read more

Folk and Fancy

Tales and Tradition 21 Apr - 20 May 2017 Edinburgh Central to the show was a large-scale painting by James Howe (1780-1836) of All Hallow’s Fair on Calton Hill (c .1817-22). The last All Hallow’s fair was held in 1813 and Howe has cited a depiction of recent history (the fair) in a part of the historic townscape that was... Read more

Hamish Fulton

Walking is a Se7en Letter Word 21 Apr - 20 May 2017 Edinburgh Since the early 1970s Fulton has been labelled sculptor, photographer, land artist and conceptual artist. He, however, describes himself as a ‘walking artist’. In 1971 he made the first of numerous walks as a way to experience a physical engagement between man and nature. The resulting work is a translation... Read more

Modern British Women

6 - 28 Feb 2017 London Featuring works by 14 artists, the exhibition sought to uncover and emblazon the work of both celebrated and lesser-known artists working throughout the twentieth century. With a diverse range of mediums, subjects and artistic styles represented, the broad scope of this exhibition provided an insight into how women artists worked... Read more

GLUCK

6 - 28 Feb 2017 London The Fine Art Society was pleased to present a major exhibition of the British painter, Gluck (1895-1978). Featuring 32 works including Gluck’s most important painting, Medallion (1937), the exhibition explored the fascinating life, work and legacy of one of the most pioneering artists of her generation. Born into the wealthy... Read more

John Copley

An Observer 6 - 23 Dec 2016 London The prolific printmaker John Copley (1875-1950), already established as a lithographer, turned to etching in 1917. For the last 20 years of his life it was his preferred medium. Copley, at a time when etching had become unfashionable, enjoyed the lack of constraints and freedom of utterance etching permitted, as... Read more

British Design

6 Dec 2016 - 5 Jan 2017 London Following on from the success of The John Scott Collection exhibition series, The Fine Art Society presented British Design, a celebration of British designers, manufacturers and styles from the late-nineteenth century through the twentieth century. The exhibition included furniture, textile, glass, metal and ceramic design by: A.W. Pugin, John Hardman,... Read more

John Byrne

Moonshine 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2016 Painted in2016, the works in the show marked a transitional moment in John Byrne's evolving creativity. Still capturing glimpses of familiar faces: the Teddy boy and the blonde from 1950s Paisley, the cityscape with graffiti and smoky towers, the black guy with a fedora, the self-examining artist. However, these inhabitants... Read more

Alexander Nasmyth

His Family and Influence 30 Sep - 12 Nov 2016 Edinburgh 'The founder of the landscape painting of Scotland, by his taste and talents took the lead for many years in the patriotic aim of enriching his native land with the representations of her romantic scenery.' - Sir David Wilkie, describing Alexander Nasmyth in a letter of condolence to his widow.... Read more

Silvy Weatherall

Another Man's Treasure 30 Sep - 12 Nov 2016 Edinburgh Another Man's Treasure, was a wunderkammern of works by Galloway-based artist Silvy Weatherall: paintings, sculptures, disarticulated animal and bird skeletons and their remnants. Silvy finds use for objects that have lost their function or have been discarded: 'the thought of making something out of 'nothing' appeals to me hugely.” Silvy... Read more

Gerald Laing 1936-2011

A Retrospective 19 Sep - 13 Oct 2016 London Gerald Laing 1936-2011 present the first major retrospective, featuring paintings, sculptures and prints spanning the entire career of the British pop artist and sculptor Gerald Laing (1936 - 2011), on the fifth anniversary of his death. . Considered one of the most important artists of his generation, Gerald Laing is... Read more

Signatures Of Scottish Art

140 Years of the Fine Art Society 10 Jun - 9 Jul 2016 Edinburgh Exhibited during the year that The Fine Art Society celebrated its 140th anniversary, the occasion was marked in our Edinburgh gallery with the exhibition Signatures of Scottish Art. The show included 14 important Scottish paintings from the 17th century to the early 1900s. Works by: Henry Ferguson, David Allan, Allan... Read more

Samuel Palmer and The Fine Art Society

6 Jun - 7 Jul 2016 London Samual Palmer died in 1881 and the gallery staged his memorial exhibition, a major retrospective which was of great importance in establishing his lasting reputation. It was also the pattern for many subsequent shows in the gallery, which is credited with the virtual invention of the one-man-show. Whistler was celebrated... Read more

Counterpoint: Modern Realism 1910-1950

6 - 26 May 2016 London The story of modern art in Britain was often presented traditionally as a narrative journey towards abstraction or gestural expression, exemplified by the work of Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, or the St Ives painters. But alongside this brilliant burning path ran many other contrapuntal threads, each of... Read more

Laura Knight

From a Private Collection 6 - 26 May 2016 London This exhibition included a collection of 28 etchings and aquatints by acclaimed British artist, Laura Knight, which had been held in private hands since being purchased in the 1970’s. Created between 1922 and 1936, the works vividly depicted the intimate and private world of women, and the life of the... Read more

James McNeill Whistler

Prints 5 - 28 Apr 2016 London In 2016 The Fine Art Society staged the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of prints by James McNeill Whistler for 45 years at its New Bond Street gallery. Part of the The Fine Art Societys 140th anniversary celebration, this show featured one of the first and most illustrious artists represented... Read more

The Print Show

Artist Printmakers 1800-1975 15 Feb - 10 Mar 2016 London From William Blake's engraving of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims in 1809-10 to Howard Hodgkin's abstract hand-coloured lithographs of the 1970s, the exhibition will spanned 175 years of artist printmakers production and include 128 works by 49 artists, including Sybil Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Robert Austin, Stanley Roy Badmin, Edward Bawden, Robert Bevan,... Read more

Tim Pomeroy

Contemporary Sacred 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2015 Edinburgh This was Tim Pomeroy’s inaugural exhibition at The Fine Art Society's gallery in Edinburgh, and was the first major show for the artist in Scotland for over a decade. Tim Pomeroy is often referred to as Britain’s foremost stone carver with his works being included in both private and public... Read more

John Bulloch Souter

Drawings, Cartoons and Etchings 20 Nov - 23 Dec 2015 Edinburgh Born in Aberdeen in 1890, Souter attended Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen and The Alan Fraser School of Art, Arbroath. His evident talent won him a travelling scholarship to Europe. He first exhibited at the RA in 1914 and continued to show most years until 1952 when he returned to... Read more

The Art Jeweller

From Castellani to Knox 9 - 13 Nov 2015 London The Art Jeweller presented an exhibition of nineteenth and early twentieth-century jewellery, in the line of previous jewellery designers exhibitions held at The Fine Art Society between 1900 and 1987. Many of the artists in this exhibition have become familiar to our patrons over the years. Jessie M. King and... Read more

Glasgow Boys

2 Oct - 14 Nov 2015 London Glasgow Boys presented a selected exhibition of paintings by those artists central to the group and others who, inspired by the vanguard's daring and rejection of the establishment. Inspired by the painters of the Barbizon, the Hague School and French Impressionism, these artists worked in a modern European way. The... Read more

Venice

An Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings and Prints 1 - 29 Jul 2015 London Venice was celebrated in this exhibition at The Fine Art Society, in which London’s oldest commercial gallery combined with Charles Beddington, Canaletto expert and Old Master specialist, and Hill-Stone Inc. from New York. The exhibition included six of James McNeill Whistler’s Venice etchings and works by other major 19th century... Read more

The John Scott Collection

Architect-Designers: From Pugin to Voysey 3 - 25 Jun 2015 London Architect-Designers: From Pugin to Voysey, at The Fine Art Societys New Bond Street galeries, was the seventh and last exhibition showcasing the renowned John Scott Collection. The selection presented some of the finest pieces in the collection, illustrating a critical period of British design when architects showed that there was... Read more

Unity Spencer

Lucky to be an Artist 24 Mar - 24 Apr 2015 London The Fine Art Society was proud to stage the first West End survey of work by Unity Spencer, daughter of the celebrated twentieth century British artist, Sir Stanley Spencer . The exhibition also marked the publication of Unity's candid autobiography Lucky to be an Artist. The exhibition consisted of fifty... Read more

The Faeds

A Family of Painters 5 Mar - 22 Apr 2015 Edinburgh John Faed HRSA (1819-1902) / James Faed Senior (1821-1911) / Thomas Faed ARSA RA (1826-1900) / James Faed Junior (1856-1920) / William Cotton Faed (1858-1937) One of the oldest and rarest of Scottish surnames and with its history firmly rooted in the picturesque landscape that is Dumfries and Galloway, for... Read more

The John Scott Collection

Art Nouveau, Continental Art and Sculpture 25 Feb - 25 Mar 2015 London The John Scott Collection of Art Nouveau and Continental design, was presented alongside sculpture from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from The John Scott Collection. The exhibition included major works by both British and European pioneers of the period including Hector Guimard, Emile Gallé, Archibald Knox and Gustave... Read more

Edwin G. Lucas 1911 – 1990

6 - 28 Feb 2015 Edinburgh In the 1930s, Lucas associated with innovative and, later, influential students at Edinburgh College of Art, including Wilhelmina Barns-Graham from whom Lucas rented a studio in 1939. His involvement with Surrealism dates from this year and his pictures stand apart from anything his contemporaries were producing. Initially inspired by major... Read more

What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me

10 Oct - 5 Nov 2014 Marking the centenary of Duchamp's readymade, The Fine Art Society was proud to present a major group exhibition What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me. It was the largest show in the history of the gallery at 148 New Bond Street, taking over the entire five floors of the townhouse as over... Read more

Samuel Bough RSA RSW 1822-1878

3 Oct - 8 Nov 2014 Edinburgh Although not a native Scot - he was born in Carlisle - Sam Bough is one of the most influential figures in the development of nineteenth-century Scottish landscape painting. He was a largely self-taught artist: the early part of his career was spent painting theatrical sets in Manchester and Glasgow.... Read more

The John Scott Collection

Truth, Beauty, Power: The Designs of Dr. Christopher Dresser 11 Sep - 2 Oct 2014 London This exhibition presented the exceptional designs of Dr Christopher Dresser (1834-1904), widely regarded as Britain’s first independent industrial designer and one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century design. Drawn from the John Scott Collection, the exhibition included a large number of rare and important pieces that had been exhibited... Read more

The Seven And Five Society 1920-1935

9 - 31 Jul 2014 London With exhibitions spanning from 1920, date of the formation of the society, to 1935, when their last exhibition was held at Zwemmer's Gallery, The Seven and Five Society included a total of eighty-seven artists in its fourteen exhibitions, which would go on to shape British Art for decades to come.... Read more

John Byrne RSA

Dead End 3 Jul - 1 Sep 2014 Edinburgh John Byrne's artistic career began in 1967 when he assumed the identity of the naive painter 'Patrick' for a series of shows at the Portal Gallery, London. A true renaissance man, Byrne is an artist, playwright and theatre designer whose paintings feature in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and... Read more

The John Scott Collection

Decorative Arts From the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 11 Jun - 3 Jul 2014 London The John Scott Colelction of British decorative arts had been amassed for over forty years, becoming what many regarded to be the finest collection in private hands. The Fine Art Society was privileged to present this remarkable collection. All works were offered for sale through a series of seven definitive... Read more

A Family Collection From Boxted House

robert bevan and other modern british art from the collection of bobby and natalie bevan 18 Sep - 3 Oct 2013 London All of the works in this exhibition were all part of the collection at Boxted House in Essex, which was the home of Bobby and Natalie Bevan from 1946 until 2001. Bobby was the son of the Camden Town painter Robert Polhill Bevan (1865–1925), and inherited a significant group of... Read more

Arthur Melville

7 Sep - 18 Oct 2013 London Although Arthur Melville was a ‘tremendously vital’ Scot, it took an English, London-based art critic to remind us of Melville’s genius. Reviewing the Glasgow boys exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2010 in the Evening Standard, Brian Sewell wrote about the richness of Melville’s work which he found ‘quite astonishing’.... Read more

Whistler On The Thames

An Exhibition of Etchings and Lithotints 17 Apr - 9 May 2013 London The idea for this exhibition grew from the extraordinary etchings Whistler made in the late summer of 1859. The idea of the exhibition arose from him arriving in London, charged with Realist zeal inhaled in Paris, and taking lodgings in a rough, working class district of London. In Wapping he... Read more

British Murals and Decorative Paintings 1910-1970

14 Feb - 9 Mar 2013 London As a consequence of remaining out of the public domain murals often end up being written out of the accounts of the lives of the artists who created them - not withstanding the fact that for sheer size and scale it might be assumed that they were amongst the most... Read more

Carving in Britain

From 1910 To Now 3 Dec 2012 - 12 Jan 2013 London Although by no means an exhaustive survey of British carving of the last hundred years – exhibition space and availability of works dictated that - Carving in Britain was for many an introduction to a field that has attracted renewed interest in the last decade. It is possible to construct... Read more

George Clausen and the Picture of English Rural Life

10 Oct - 8 Nov 2012 London In 1979, to coincide with the Royal Academy’s Post- Impressionism exhibition and anticipate the large Sir George Clausen touring show, The Fine Art Society staged The Rustic Image, an exhibition surveying rural themes in British Painting. Of the eighty pictures by forty-two artists represented, nine were by Clausen. Not only... Read more

Sir Peter Blake

Things I Love at The Fine Art Society 20 Jul - 1 Sep 2012 London In 2012 The Fine Art Society proudly announced Things I Love At The Fine Art Society, an exhibition curated by Sir Peter Blake R.A. Opening the week before the Olympic and Paralympics games, the exhibition was a celebration of London and the artists who have lived and worked in the... Read more

Frank Dobson 1886-1963

20 Jun - 7 Jul 2012 London Frank Dobson was born in Acton Street, St Pancras, London on 18 November 1886. His father was a commercial artist, and young Frank was introduced to the technical aspects of painting at an early age. His father also fostered in him a love and respect for fine art by taking... Read more

Samuel Palmer

His Friends and Followers 30 May - 22 Jun 2012 London The landscape has a fundamental place in British art. During the earlier nineteenth century it inspired the greatest British artists to paint what they saw and experienced outside their studios in England and elsewhere: Turner, Constable, Bonington, David Roberts and John Linnell. Unlike such artists, Palmer approached landscape not in... Read more