Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1851
End Date: 1851
Type: Annual Exhibition
Description: Nearly 400 works exhibited in total.
Policy: [Before the year 1805, Exhibitions in annual succession were unknown in Ireland. The Professors of the Fine Arts had no permanent bond to unite them, nor place for the Exhibition of their works]. This changed in 1824, when George IV granted a royal charter to the Royal Hibernian Academy and one of its members, Francis Johnston, Esq., provided the Professors with an Academy House and suitable Galleries for exhibition. A gallery for the reception of Antique Statues and Modern Works of Sculpture was supplied in 1830, by the erection of a new building on land adjoining the existing academy, funded by Mrs. Johnston, widow of the late President, Francis Johnston above (p.3).
Display Arrangement: The 'Large Room' held 197 paintings in oils. The Ante Room featured over 140 works, a mix of paintings in watercolour and miniatures. Sculpture was exhibited under the title 'The Antique Academy' and included more than 40 works, mainly busts but some ideal works.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Bust of the Late Rev. Dr. Bisset, Lord Bishop of Raphoe
1851
exb.cat. no. 344
Exhibition included Statue of Faith
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of a Lady
Exhibition included Bust of a Gentleman
1851
Exhibition included Bust of Catherine Hayes
1851
Exhibition included Half-sized Model of a Colossal Statue
Exhibition included Statuette of Justice
Exhibition included Bust of the late Thomas Steele, Esq.
1851
Exhibition included Model Bust of His Grace Archbishop Murray
Exhibition included Bust of the Right Honourable Lord Brougham
1851
Exhibition included Bust of the Honourable Mrs George Villiers
1851
Exhibition included Bust of the Countess of Clarendon
Exhibition included Bust of the Right Honourable Lord Dunboyne
1851
Exhibition included Marble Bust of French Lady
Exhibition included Statuette of Wisdom
Exhibition included The Pastoral Age
1851
Exhibition included Bust of Edmund Burke
1851
exb. cat. no. 358
Exhibition included Deposition from the Cross
Exhibition included St Joseph
Exhibition included Bust of Master B. Skottowe, at the age of twelve years
1851
cat. no. 361
Exhibition included The Bather, contemplating the stream
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of the late Right Honourable Lord Dunboyne
Exhibition included Miniature of a Lady
Exhibition included Portrait Bust of a little Child
Exhibition included Statuette in marble, of a deaf and dumb child (unfinished)
Exhibition included Bust of Emily, youngest daughter of the Right Honourable H. Labouchere
1851
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of a Lady
Exhibition included Bust of a Lady
Exhibition included Posthumous Marble Bust of Mrs J. Harvey Lewis
Exhibition included Marble Bust of a Gentleman
Exhibition included Bust of the late Captain Webb
1851
Exhibition included Bust of the late Lord Monck
1851
Exhibition included Bust of the late T. S. Goodenough, Esq.
1851
Exhibition included Bust of the Rev. Dr Todd, SFTCD
1851
Exhibition included Figure of Religion
1851
Exhibition included Bust of the late Sir Michael O Loghlen
1851
Exhibition included Bust of O'Connell, modelled in 1846
1852
Exhibition included Italian Greyhound playing with a Puppy
1854
Exhibition included Rebecca
1862
Exhibition included Bust of His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman
1851
Exhibition included Bust of the late Rev. Charles Elrington, D.D.
1851
exb.cat. no. 343
Exhibition included The Boyd Testimonial
Offered for sale A Study from the Life
1863
£3 3s.
Offered for sale The Little Pet - Group in Marble
1868
£50
Offered for sale The late Charles Dickens
1871
£2 2s.
Offered for sale A Bather
1880
£25
Offered for sale Genevieve
1886
£5
Offered for sale Little Lord Fontleroy
1891
£30
Offered for sale One who fought in the trenches before Sebastapol, now a Chelsea Pensioner
1891
£21
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1851
Participants
Exhibitors included Joseph Farrell
'Rebecca'
Exhibitors included Trevor Owen
'The Boyd Testimonial'
Exhibitors included Joseph Gott
'Italian Greyhound playing with a Puppy'
Exhibitors included Terence Farrell
'Bust of the late Lord Monck'
Exhibitors included Joseph Robinson Kirk
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Christopher Moore
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Hogan
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Richard F. Barter
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Lawlor
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Boyton Kirk
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Peter Lawrence Crowley
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1851', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib3_1202137831, accessed 29 May 2023]
