Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1865
End Date: 1865
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 37th annual exhibition. A total of 509 works exhibited.
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: Works distributed between the Large Room, the Ante Room and the Sculpture Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Design for a Monument
1865
Exhibition included Bust of E. Ribton Byrne, Esq.
1865
Exhibition included Bust of Master John Barnes
1865
Exhibition included The Mother's Care
1865
Exhibition included Bust of Miss Harriet Sanger
1865
Exhibition included Sleeping Child
1865
Exhibition included Bust of M. Lawlor
1865
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Exhibition included Bust of a Lady
1865
Exhibition included Bust of Joseph R. Kirk, Esq., RHA
1865
Exhibition included Specimens of Medal Die Engraving
1865
Exhibition included Bust of a Gentleman
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1865
Participants
Exhibitors included John Woodhouse
'Specimens of Medal Die Engraving'
Exhibitors included Jane Morgan
'Bust of Joseph R. Kirk, Esq., RHA'
Exhibitors included William Stirling
'Design for a Monument'
Exhibitors included John Lawlor
'The Mother's Care'
Exhibitors included Joseph Robinson Kirk
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Christopher Moore
Bust of Lord Palmerston (marble, cat. no. 110); Bust (marble, cat. no. 127 - catalogue annotated in pencil: 'C. J. Lefroy', possibly sitter).
Posthumous exhibition.
Exhibitors included Joseph Watkins
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1865', 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_1203422676, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
