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The New Gallery was an art gallery founded at 121 Regent Street W., London, in 1888 by J. Comyns Carr and Charles Hallé. Carr and Hallé had had been co-directors of Sir Coutts Lindsay's Grosvenor Gallery, but resigned that troubled gallery in 1887. The New Gallery was designed by E. R. Robson, F.S.A., and constructed in little more than three months to ensure that it would open the following summer.[1][2] The Private View of the first exhibition was held on Tuesday, 8 May 1888, and the exhibition opened to the public on Wednesday, 9 May, for three months.[1]
Edward Burne-Jones, then at the height of his popularity, supported the new venture and ensured its financial success. George Frederic Watts and Lord Leighton also transferred their loyalty to the New Gallery.[2]
The New Gallery was the setting for a major Burne-Jones retrospective in 1892-93 and of a memorial exhibition of his works in 1898.[3]
Carr continued as co-director until 1908.
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References
- Blackburn, Henry (May 1888). "New Gallery Notes No. 1". Chatto and Windus. Retrieved 2008-12-07.
- Wildman, Stephen: Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, ISBN 0870998595