The gallery opened in the early years of the century at 34 Old Bond Street, London W.,[2] 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][5]: 214–5 Nicholson also provided the cover illustration for the catalogue an exhibition of old masters in 1910.[5]: 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 ColouristJ.D. Fergusson (March)[11] and drawings by Picasso (April).[12]
^[s.n.] (1911). An exhibition of pictures by Gustave Courbet, held at the Stafford Gallery, 1 Duke Street, St. James's, on March 23rd, 1911 and after, exhibition catalogue. London: Stafford Gallery.
^[s.n.] (1911). An Exhibition of Pictures by Walter Sickert, Stafford Gallery, London, 27 June 1911–, exhibition catalogue. London: Stafford Gallery.
^[s.n.] (1911). Exhibition of pictures by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) at the Stafford Gallery, 1 Duke Street, St. James's, November 23rd and after, exhibition catalogue. London: Stafford Gallery.
^[s.n.] ([1911?]). Exhibition of pictures by Camille Pissarro, 1830-1903, exhibition catalogue. London: Stafford Gallery.
^[s.n.] (1912). Exhibition of pictures by J.D. Fergusson, exhibition catalogue. London: Stafford Gallery.
^[s.n.] (1912). Exhibition of drawings by Picasso, at the Stafford Gallery, 1 Duke Street, St. James's, April 23rd, 1912 and after, exhibition catalogue. London: Stafford Gallery.