The London Art Scene in 1900

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of the art scene in London at the turn of the twentieth century in Imperial London, first published in 1901:

There was a wealth of pictures, good, bad, and indifferent, to be seen gratis in Modern Babylon.

National Portrait Gallery Unfortunately, in 1900 the annual Treasury grant to this Gallery was meagre, and many priceless portraits were lost for lack of funds.

Victoria and Albert Museum At the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, is a very fine collection of late nineteenth century pictures, a few early Italian and German paintings, and Raphael's celebrated cartoons.

Hampton Court At Hampton Court Palace there are over a thousand pictures, including works by Sir G. Kneller, Leonardo da Vinci, Tintoretto, Velasquez, Holbein, Titian, Paul Veronese, Lely, Correggio, and West, etc., the last being portraits of Royalties.

The Tate Gallery The Tate rooms are well lighted from the top, and the walls are covered with a deep plum-coloured figured paper, while the walls of the octagon rooms are of a bright red tint to suit Mr. Watts' style of colours.

The Wallace Collection There are works by Murillo, Velasquez, Meissonier, Delaroche, Watteau, etc., while English painters are well represented, but not fully as in some galleries; there are, however, some magnificent pictures by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Copley Fielding, Clarkson, Stanfield, etc.

Dulwich Picture Gallery At Dulwich is the gallery of pictures bequeathed to the College by Sir Francis Bourgeois, R.A. in 1807. It contains superb examples of the Dutch school, of Cuyp especially, also of Rembrandt, Teniers, Van Dyck, Hobbema, Ostade, and Wouverman.

Royal Academy of Arts Every year, as this month comes round, the Academicians and Associates of the Royal Academy of Arts, in their fine rooms which occupy the entire north side of the quadrangle of Burlington House, entertained, at their bounteous board, Royalty and all the "notables" of the land, to inaugurate their annual Exhibition.

Art Salons In the salons of the Grafton Gallery, 8, Grafton Street, Bond Street, there was always an artistic and beautiful exhibition on, whether it be of Old Masters, Contemporary, French and Dutch Art, or of Fair Women and Children.

Private Art Collections At Apsley House, Grosvenor House, Stafford House, Chesterfield House, Devonshire House, Bridgewater House, Montague House, at Lord Rothschild's, Piccadilly, and at the Baroness Burdett-Coutts' (Stratton Street, and Holly Lodge, Highgate) there were superb objets d'art, and pictures interesting by reason of their historical association.