Grosvenor Gallery

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Grosvenor Gallery was a prominent late 19th-century London art gallery known for showcasing avant-garde and Aesthetic Movement works, including Pre-Raphaelite art.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf art gallery
exhibition space
architect Norman Shaw
associatedWith Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
city London
country United Kingdom
criticizedBy conservative art critics
culturalRole centre for avant-garde art in London
declineReason financial difficulties
shifts in artistic taste
dissolved 1890
era late 19th century
exhibitedWorkBy Albert Moore
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Edward Burne-Jones
Frederic Leighton
George Frederic Watts
James McNeill Whistler
John Everett Millais
William Holman Hunt
foundedBy Blanche Lindsay
Sir Coutts Lindsay
hadFeature gas and later electric lighting for displays
luxurious interior decoration
hosted annual summer exhibitions
inception 1877
influenced art exhibition practices in London
reception of Aestheticism in Britain
location London
mediaCoverage widely reviewed in Victorian press
movement Aesthetic Movement
neighborhood Mayfair
notableFor exhibiting Pre-Raphaelite works
exhibiting avant-garde art
supporting Aesthetic Movement artists
openedAsAlternativeTo Royal Academy of Arts
patron aristocratic collectors
wealthy middle-class collectors
praisedBy progressive art critics
street New Bond Street
style Victorian architecture
successorUse later converted to commercial premises

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Pre-Raphaelite art
exhibitedAt

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