Grosvenor Gallery
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- | {{Template}}The '''Grosvenor Gallery''' was an [[art gallery]] founded in [[London]] in [[1877]] by Sir [[Coutts Lindsay]], who engaged [[J. Comyns Carr]] and [[Charles Hallé]] as co-directors. Its opening night was [[May 1]], 1877 | + | {{Template}}The '''Grosvenor Gallery''' was an [[art gallery]] founded in [[London]] by Sir [[Coutts Lindsay]], who engaged [[J. Comyns Carr]] and [[Charles Hallé]] as co-directors. Its opening night was [[May 1]], [[1877]]. |
The Grosvenor was a rival to the [[Royal Academy]], and displayed work by artists outside of the [[United Kingdom|British]] mainstream, including [[Edward Burne-Jones]] and [[Walter Crane]]. | The Grosvenor was a rival to the [[Royal Academy]], and displayed work by artists outside of the [[United Kingdom|British]] mainstream, including [[Edward Burne-Jones]] and [[Walter Crane]]. |
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The Grosvenor was a rival to the Royal Academy, and displayed work by artists outside of the British mainstream, including Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Crane.
In 1878, John Ruskin visited the gallery to see work by Burne-Jones. An exhibition of paintings by James McNeill Whistler was also on display. Ruskin's savage review of Whistler's work led to a famous libel case, brought by the artist against the critic. Whistler won a farthing in damages.
The case made the gallery famous as the home of the Aesthetic movement, which was satirised in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, with its oft-quoted line "greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery".
In 1888, after a disagreement with Lindsay, Comyns Carr and Hallé resigned from the gallery to found the rival New Gallery, capturing Burne-Jones and many of the Grosvenor Gallery's other artists. The break-up of his marriage, financial constraints and personal conflicts forced Lindsay out of the gallery, which was taken over by his estranged wife.