Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1863
End Date: 1863
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 35th annual exhibition. 506 works exhibited in 1863.
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: Sculpture and architectural drawings hung together in The Sculpture Room. Oil, watercolour and miniature paintings hung in Large Room and Ante-Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included The Madonna
1863
Exhibition included Bust of the late John Brown, Esq.
1863
Exhibition included Design for a Fountain
1863
Exhibition included A Study from the Life
1863
Exhibition included Bust of a Child
1863
Exhibition included Marble Bust of a Young Girl
Exhibition included Colossal Allegorical Figure executed in Portland Stone
1863
Exhibition included Marble Bust of a young Girl
Exhibition included Bust of a Youth
Exhibition included Posthumous Bust of a Gentleman
1863
Exhibition included Marble Bust of Charles Sugrue, Esq.
Exhibition included Bust
1863
Exhibition included A Pieta - An Unfinished Model
1863
Exhibition included Medals
Exhibition included Polar Bear - Executed colossal size
1863
Exhibition included Statue of the late Captain Boyd
1863
Exhibition included Marble Statue of the late Lord Plunket
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1863
Participants
Exhibitors included John Lawlor
'Bust'
Exhibitors included Patrick MacDowell
'Marble Statue of the late Lord Plunket'
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
'Statue of the late Captain Boyd'
Exhibitors included Joseph Robinson Kirk
'Polar Bear - Executed colossal size'
Exhibitors included John Woodhouse
'Medals'
Exhibitors included Joseph Farrell
'A Pieta - An Unfinished Model'
Exhibitors included John Farrell
'The Madonna'
Exhibitors included Terence Farrell
'Bust of the late John Brown, Esq.'
Exhibitors included A Fulton
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Henry Foley
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1863', 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_1203422589, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
