Group Show
George Frampton Peter Pan (1915) bronze, 53 cm in height, Private Collection, Courtesy of Sotherby's, London
Konody placed the Pavilion in the hands of the Venetians for the 1922 exhibition, and they invited Frank Brangwyn, so closely involved in pre-war Biennales, to act as commissioner. Lack of time prevented the realisation of Brangwyn's original desire, in his words, "to have a fine display of decorative art, to make each room complete with furniture, carpets and wall decoration, a music room, a dining room, etc."* The works selected by Brangwyn were so weak, however, that, according to Konody's account: "Bourlet's, the packers, thinking that such an exhibition would be injurious to British Art, asked me to inspect the works before they were sent off, and to see if I cannot do something to make the show more creditable. At the eleventh hour I stepped in and secured some 30 or 49 pictures... which saved the British section from the being a complete fiasco and added to it just a note of distinction."**
*Letter to Romolo Bazzoni, 3 November 1921 (Fondo Storicio ASAC, Serie Scatole Nere Padiglioni: Gran Bretagna, busta n.9, "XIII Biennale 1922")
** Confidential letter to Domenico Varagnolo, 15 April 1923 (Fondo Storico ASAC, Serie Scatole Nere Padiglioni: Gran Bretagna, busta n.8). Among the artists whose works he added were Augustus John, Charles Ginner, Mark Gertler, Gerald Kelly, William Nicholson, John Nash and Sickert.
(Taken with kind permission from Britain at the Venice Biennale 1895-1995 Edited by Sophie Bowness and Clive Phillpot).
Commissioner: Frank Brangwyn
Hanging: James Kerr-Lawson.
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British Pavilion
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Robert W Allan
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M E Atkins
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Anthony R Barker
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Archibald G Barnes
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Charles H Baskett
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Gilbert Bayes
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Walter Bayes
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Robert Anning Bell
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Alfred Bentley
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Samuel John Lamorna Birch
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Henry Bishop
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Francis Black
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Estella Canziani
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Edward Chappel
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Christopher Clark
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Isabel Codrington
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Francis Henry Crittall
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Herbert Davis Richter
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Mary Davis
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Isabelle Dods Withers
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Alfred Drury
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Frank L Emanuel
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Alexander Fisher
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Stefani Melton Fisher
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W. Mark Fisher
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Hanslip Fletcher
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William Russell Flint
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Stanhope Alexander Forbes
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Annie Frenck
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Ethel Gabain
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Mark Gertler
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Walter Greaves
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Madeline Green
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Orlando Greenwood
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Allan Gwynne-Jones
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Oliver Hall
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Herbert Hampton
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George Harcourt
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Dudley Hardy
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George Harrison
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James Henry
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Kenneth Hobson
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Edith A Hope
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Herbert Hughes-Stanton
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Cecil Arthur Hunt
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Ernest Borough Johnson
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Esther Borough Johnson
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Gerald Kelly
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Eric H Kennington
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James Kerr-Lawson
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Dorothea Landau
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John Lavery
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William Lee-Hankey
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Horace Mann Livens
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William Mouat Loudan
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Mary McCrossan
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Gerald Moira
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Harold Nelson
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Charles Maresco Pearce
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Glyn W Philpot
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Barry Pittar
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Dod Procter
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Ernest Procter
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James Pryde
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Warwick Reynolds
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Leonard Richmond
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Ethel Sands
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Francis William Sargant
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Michael Sevier
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William Shackleton
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George Sheringham
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Gerald Spencer Pryse
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Frank Spenlove-Spenlove
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Leonard R Squirrell
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Leslie Thomson
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Leslie Moffat Ward
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George Spencer Watson
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Harry Watson
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Madeline Wells
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R Douglas Wells
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J Walter West
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Alfred Withers
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Alfred A Wolmark
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Jack B Yeats
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