April 1898: Glasgow Municipal Buildings – Decorating of the Banqueting Hall
An article on page six of The Glasgow Herald, on Wednesday the 20th of April, 1898, reads:
“GLASGOW MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS. – DECORATING OF THE BANQUETING HALL. – The Municipal Buildings
Committee met yesterday to consider the appointment of artists to carry out the decorative work in the Banqueting
Hall. The meeting commissioned Messrs Lavery, Roche, Henry, and Walton to decorate the three centre panels and
the lunette over the platform, each artist to receive 500 guineas. The subjects are to be illustrative of the history of
Glasgow.”