The Pastel Society

In 1882 The Society of Painters in Pastel was founded in New York by William Merritt Chase, Robert Frederick Blum, James Carroll Beckwith, Hugh Bolton Jones and Edwin Blashfield.

Influenced by The Society of Painters in Pastel, in 1885 the Société des Pastellistes was founded by artists in Paris.

The Society was organised by Sir John Coutts Lindsay, owner of the Grosvenor Gallery.

Prominent members of The London Pastel Society were William Rothenstein and Philip Wilson Steer.

The London Pastel Society did not survive beyond 1890 when its president Sir John Coutts Lindsay had to close the Grosvenor Gallery for financial reasons.