The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85
Report
Report,
In presenting their thirty-sixth Report of the proceedings of this Association, the Committee of Management are sorry to state that the accounts for the past season show a considerable falling-off from those of the preceding one, This result is perhaps not to be wondered at, considering the extreme depression which has prevailed in agriculture and in business generally, but it is nevertheless very much to be regretted.
One Prize, of the value of | §30 |
One Prize, of the value of | §20 |
Four Prizes, Prize, of the value of | §10 |
Fourteen Prizes, Prize, of the value of | §5 |
And they have added from their reserve stock 30 artists' proof engravings and etchings as minor prizes, Although these have not been charged in the accounts they are worth five guineas each, so that the actual value of prizes now to be distributed exceeds §300.
The presentation work for the past season consisted of a mezzo-tinto engraving after Sir Edwin Land seer's celebrated painting of "The Sutherland Family," and the Committee can only regret that from a variety of unfavourable causes it has not met with the success which its beauty, attractiveness, and high quality deserved.
The Committee of Management are happy to announce that they have provided for the subscribers next year such a presentation work as, they feel persuaded, will be acceptable to all classes, both from the nature of the work and the interest of the subject. Amongst the chief paintings expected at the forthcoming Exhibition of the Royal Academy is one by Mr. J. D. page 8 Linton representing the marriage of the late Duke of Albany in presence of the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and a crowd of other distinguished persons. The composition of the picture is very artistic, and the likenesses are strikingly good. This great picture is now to be reproduced as an etching, under the special sanction of Her Majesty, and Mr. Leopold Lowenstam has been engaged for the purpose. The Committee have arranged with him and the artist for the acquisition of the plate and the copyright of the picture, and from the oeneral excellence of Mr. Lowenstam's work they anticipate with pleasure being able to place before the many friends of the Art-Union of Glasgow next season a work of art of no ordinary merit and interest.
The members of Committee who retire by rotation at this time are—Mr. James Sellars, Jun., LA., Mr. G. W. Clark, Mr. D. E. Outram, Mr. A. G. Macdonald, and Mr. R. G. Ross, who are all eligible for re-election.
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