Stafford Gallery

For the Stafford gallery of Cleveland House, see Bridgewater House, Westminster.

The Stafford Gallery was an art gallery in London in the early twentieth century. Among the artists whose works were exhibited there are both international figures such as Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Gustave Courbet,^[1] and British painters including Walter Sickert and Sir William Nicholson.

Stafford Gallery

Spencer Gore: Gauguins and Connoisseurs at the Stafford Gallery, 1911
Established	before June 1903
Location	34 Old Bond Street, London W. 1 Duke Street, St. James's
Coordinates	51°30′31.5″N 0°8′27″W

Douglas Fox Pitt, The Stafford Gallery, March 1912, showing paintings by the Scottish Colourist painter J.D. Fergusson

The gallery opened in the early years of the century at 34 Old Bond Street, London W.,^[2]: 115 on the corner with Stafford Street; but by 1910 had moved to 1 Duke Street, St. James's.^[3]

Exhibitions

In June 1903 the gallery showed watercolours by William Nicholson of the colleges of Oxford University. Twenty-four lithographs of these, with descriptive text by Arthur Waugh, were published by the gallery in two folios in 1905.^{[4]: 214 [5]} Nicholson also provided the cover illustration for the catalogue of an exhibition of old masters in 1910.^[4]: 216

In the second decade of the century, and thus shortly after Roger Fry's Manet and the Post-Impressionists at the Grafton Galleries in 1910–11, the Stafford Gallery began to show more avant-garde, particularly French, works.^[6] In 1911 there were exhibitions of paintings by Courbet (March),^[7] Sickert (June),^[8] Gauguin and Cézanne (November),^[9] and possibly Camille Pissarro in October;^[10] work by Vincent van Gogh may also have been shown.^[6] The Gauguin show is the subject of Spencer Gore's painting Gauguins and Connoisseurs at the Stafford Gallery. In 1912 there were exhibitions of paintings by the Scottish Colourist painter J.D. Fergusson in March,^[11] and drawings by Picasso in April.^[12]