Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1859
End Date: 1859
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 31st annual exhibition. 364 works 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: 156 paintings in oils were displayed in the Large Room, a similar number of works in watercolour and miniature featured in the Ante-Room and over 50 works in sculpture and architectural designs were to be found in the Antique Academy.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Collegiate Buildings
1859
Exhibition included Proposed Molyneux Asylum Church
1859
Exhibition included Pastime - Models
1859
Exhibition included The Angelic Mission
1859
Exhibition included Statue in Marble, the Youthful Saviour, Disputing with the Doctors
1859
Exhibition included Bust of the Rev. Dr Manning
1859
Exhibition included Pastime - Models
This represents the second separate entry of such models being exhibited by Farrell in 1859.
Exhibition included The Witches in Macbeth
Exhibition included The Hunter Reposing
1859
Exhibition included St Michael
1859
Exhibition included Surgeon Cusack
1859
Exhibition included Bust of the Rev. Dr Manning
1859
Exhibition included Lesbia
1859
Exhibition included Marble Bust of Antonio, the Son of General and Lady Charlotte Bacon, and Grandson of the Earl of Oxford
Exhibition included Marble Bust of Our National Poet, Moore
Exhibition included Nora Creina
1859
Exhibition included Marble Bust of the late Sir Philip Crampton
Exhibition included Marble Bust of the late O'Bryen Bellingham Esq., MD
Exhibition included Model Bust of Sir Richard Griffith, Bart
Exhibition included Model Bust of the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Lefoy
Exhibition included Model Bust of Master Britoffe Skottowe
Exhibition included Monumental Chapel, recently erected at Glasnevin Cemetery
Exhibition included View of the Rev. J. Mauhinney's Church, Athlone
Exhibition included Church built by the Rev. R. Gill
Offered for sale The Witches in Macbeth
£7 7s.
Offered for sale Lesbia
£52 10s.
marble version
Offered for sale Lesbia
£2
plaster version
Offered for sale Nora Creina
1859
£52 10s.
in marble
Offered for sale Nora Creina
1859
£2
in plaster
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1859
Participants
Exhibitors included E.P. Gribbon
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Charles Geoghegan
'Monumental Chapel, recently erected at Glasnevin Cemetery'
Exhibitors included Christopher Moore
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Lawlor
'Bust of the Rev. Dr Manning'
Exhibitors included Joseph Robinson Kirk
'Marble Bust of the late Sir Philip Crampton'
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John McCurdy
'Proposed Molyneux Asylum Church'
Exhibitors included Terence Farrell
'Pastime - Models '
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
'The Angelic Mission'
Exhibitors included James Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Joseph Farrell
'St Michael'
Exhibitors included John Farrell
'The Hunter Reposing'
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1859', 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_1203421959, accessed 22 Mar 2023]
