These photos record the moment when Horace Warner introduced the Spitalfields Nippers to the Whitechapel Gallery at its opening in 1901.
In March 1901, the Whitechapel Art Galley, a purpose built arts and crafts building designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, was opened on the Whitechapel High St for the first Spring Picture exhibition to bring great art to the people of east London. More than 200 000 visitors passed through in six weeks. The Gallery continues to provide space for a diverse range of temporary exhibitions. It holds no permanent collection of its own. ... In 1901, this was born out by the [first] exhibition: of contemporary artists such as Ford Maddox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones, followed by an exhibition of Chinese Life and Art.
Back wall from left to right St Luke design for stained glass , (studio version)1878 (Catalogue entry 233 incorrectly identifies this as being St John) The Ring Given to Venus watercolour , c 1868 Dies Domini (Lady Lever), design BJ 204, for the rose window of the chancel E-window, for St Michael & St Mary Magdalene Easthampstead, Berks, 1874 Reworking of the design for needlework for Rounton Grange,The Pilgrim Outside the Garden of Idleness (The Pilgrim at the Garden of Idleness, 1876 If Hope Were Not, Heart Should Break (Hope Rising from the Tomb) , 1895 Screen Two drawings - too be identified Centre top Triptych ? bottom: Female head study for one of the Sirens facing forward, looking right (Olive Maxse) 1895: British & European Art: Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art 11 July 2019 Lot 9 £118,750 Two heads of Perseus :Top ? Bottom: Head of a Man facing right for the Perseus SeriesThe Pierpont Morgan Library (The Morgan, The Morgan Library and Museum) 20092009.71 The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection Second photograph Head of Maria Zambaco drawing Girls Dancing through Pillars, study of six figures from the illustration for The Parlement of Foules, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer "Aboute the Temple Daunceden alway Wommen Enow..." 1898 (White and gold chalks on purple paper) The 1901 catalogue of Burne-Jones's entries, numbers 229-240 and 325-338, and 354-365, making the total number of works submitted a minimum of 45.