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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

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.

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