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Opening of the British Pavilion
On the 22nd April 1909 the British pavilion was opened on the occasion of the 8th Venice Biennale; the initiative of a small committee of British enthusiasts acting on the encouragement of the Secretary General of the Biennale, Antonio Fradeletto.
Appeal of the British Committee, January 1909
The money for the Pavilion was provided by a single benefactor, Sir David Salomons, a railway magnate and pioneer of motoring in Britain. He made the gift in order that, in his words, "English artists shall not be placed in a worse position than foreign artists at an important International Exhibition"; that they may "extend their means of becoming known and earning their livlihood"; and that "their Art may be improved by competition of a healthy character." The Committee launched a public appeal to raise further funds for the decoration and maintenance of the Pavilion. (Taken with kind permission from Britain at the Venice Biennale 1895-1995 Edited by Sophie Bowness and Clive Phillpot)
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British Pavilion
- M E Atkins
- Charles W Bartlett
- Robert Anning Bell
- Samuel John Lamorna Birch
- » Muirhead Bone
- » Frank Brangwyn
- Alexander K Brown
- E C Austen Brown
- Thomas Austen Brown
- Robert Burns
- Frederick Burridge
- » David Young Cameron
- Katharine Cameron
- Gerard Chowne
- F Cadogan Cowper
- Mary Davis
- Nelson Dawson
- Isabelle Dods Withers
- Alfred Drury
- Alfred East
- Romilly Fedden
- John Duncan Fergusson
- Alexander Fisher
- J H Vignoles Fisher
- William Russell Flint
- George Frampton
- Robert Gemmell Hutchinson
- Albert Goodwin
- James Guthrie
- Axel Herman Haig
- Fred Hall
- Oliver Hall
- Peter Alexander Hay
- George Henry
- George Houston
- Herbert Hughes-Stanton
- Cecil Arthur Hunt
- Alexander Jamieson
- Biddy Macdonald Jamieson
- William Kennedy
- James G Laing
- Maurice Lambert
- John Lavery
- William Lee-Hankey
- Horace Mann Livens
- William Llewellyn
- Albert Ludovici
- Charles H Mackie
- Fred Mayor
- Robert McG Coventry
- William McTaggart
- S. Melton Fisher
- Frank Mura
- Catherine Maude Nichols
- » William Nicholson
- Robert Buchan Nisbet
- Hugh L Norris
- » William Orpen
- Stuart Park
- James Paterson
- S J Peploe
- Arthur Douglas Peppercorn
- Joseph Langsdale Pickering
- Frederick William Pomeroy
- Henry Poole
- Bertram Priestman
- James Pryde
- Arthur Rackham
- Edyth Starkie Rackham
- Cecil Rea
- Constance (Halford) Rea
- Alexander Wallace Rimington
- Nora Murray Robertson
- Alexander Roche
- William Rothenstein
- Ruskin Pottery and Enamel Works (W Howson Taylor)
- Henry Scott Tuke
- Mark Senior
- » Charles Shannon
- T L Shoosmith
- » Frank Short
- Joseph Simpson
- Gerald Spencer Pryse
- Fred Stratton
- Leonard Campbell Taylor
- The Pilkington's Tile and Pottery Co Ltd
- Grosvenor Thomas
- William Walls
- Edward Arthur Walton
- Ernest Waterlow
- Charles J Watson
- James Whitelaw Hamilton
- Harry Wilson
- Alfred Withers
- » Francis Derwent Wood
