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.

[3] 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.

[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.