Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1853
End Date: 1853
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 485 works exhibited in total. Of these, 34 were sculptures and scattered amongst the display of paintings, miniatures and drawings throughout the Large Room, Ante-room and The Antique Gallery.
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: 485 works exhibited in total. Of these, 34 were sculptures and scattered amongst the display of paintings, miniatures and drawings throughout the Large Room, Ante-room and The Antique Gallery.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Rachel weeping for her Children, and would not be comforted, because they were not
Exhibition included Bust of a Gentleman
Exhibition included Bust of the late Pierce Mahony, Esq., DL
Exhibition included Posthumous Bust of Sir Thomas Lawrence, PRA
Exhibition included Bust of the Rev. Dr Macdonnell, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
Exhibition included Bust of the Right Hon. the Earl of Fortescue
1853
Exhibition included Bust of a Gentleman
1853
Exhibition included Posthumous Bust of the late Wills Hill Macredy, Esq.
Exhibition included Bust of the late Sir Michael O' Loughlin, Bart
1853
Exhibition included Bust of William H. Ford Cogan, Esq., MP
1853
Exhibition included Head of a Polish Jew - a Study
1853
Exhibition included Bust of William Mulready, Esq., RA
1853
Exhibition included Bust of the Rev. Dr Todd, SFTCD
1853
Exhibition included Bust of the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston
1853
Exhibition included Bust of Theobald Wolfe Tone
1853
Exhibition included Bust of Theobald Wolfe Tone
1853
Exhibition included Bust of Goetzenberger, an eminent German Painter, Author of the Cartoons on exhibition, modelled in 1827, when he was but 22 years of age
1853
Exhibition included Bust of George Petrie
1853
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of the Lady Agnes Villiers
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of the Right Honourable Earl De Grey-Marble
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of James Hans Hamilton, Esq., M.P.
Exhibition included Sketch Model of a Monument to the late Archbishop Murray
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of His Excellency, Earl of St Germans, Lord Lieutenant
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of the Earl of Enniskillen
Exhibition included Design for a centre piece in metal, emblematic of the Great Exhibition of 1851
1853
Exhibition included Colossal Statue of the late Thomas Davis
1853
Exhibition included Design for a Monument
1853
Exhibition included Design for a Monument
1853
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of the late Earl of Besborough
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of the late William Nugent Skelly, Esq.
Exhibition included Monumental Medallion of the late Rev. Charles Wolfe
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of a Lady
Exhibition included Miniature Bust of the Lady Emily Villiers
Exhibition included The Great Cross at Monaster Boice, modelled from the original in the Dublin Industrial Exhibition
1854
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1852
Participants
Exhibitors included James Farrell
'Sketch Model of a Monument to the late Archbishop Murray'
Exhibitors included Terence Farrell
'Miniature Bust of the Earl of Enniskillen'
Exhibitors included Joseph Robinson Kirk
'Design for a centre piece in metal, emblematic of the Great Exhibition of 1851'
Exhibitors included John Hogan
'Colossal Statue of the late Thomas Davis'
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Patrick Vincent Duffy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Terence Ferrall
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Christopher Moore
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Edward Jones
'Bust of the late Pierce Mahony, Esq., DL'
Exhibitors included Richard Farrell
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1853', 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_1202731081, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
