Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1866
End Date: 1866
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 38th annual exhibition. A total of 547 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: Sculpture and architectural drawings hung together in the Sculpture Room, paintings hung in the Main Room and Ante-Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Expectation
Exhibition included Bust of a Gentleman
1866
exhibited posthumously
Exhibition included Plaster Bust (Posthumous) - The Right Rev. the late Lord Bishop of Limerick, Dr Griffin
1866
Exhibition included The Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen
1866
Exhibition included John Barrington, Esq., DL, Ex Lord Mayor of Dublin (1865)
1866
Exhibition included The Hon. John Cole, MP
1866
Exhibition included Plaster Bust of the very Rev. Dr Spratt
1866
Exhibition included The late William Mulready, Esq., RHA
1866
Exhibition included The late Miss Murphy of Baymount Castle
1866
Exhibition included The Infant Saviour and St John
1866
Exhibition included A Young Lady (Medallion)
1866
Exhibition included The late Judge Ball
1866
Exhibition included Marble Bust, the Rev. Dr Anderton
Exhibition included Master Wyke Smith
Exhibition included Robert Mayne, Esq., MD
1866
Exhibition included Rev. A. Pollock
1866
Exhibition included The Hon. H. A. Cole, MP
1866
Exhibition included The late James Hans Hamilton, Esq., MP
1866
Exhibition included The Rev. Charles Fleury, DD
1866
Exhibition included Plaster Bust, the Right Rev. Dr Whelan, R.C. Bishop of Bombay
1866
Exhibition included Plaster Bust, the Right Rev. Dr Whelan, R.C. Bishop of Bombay
1866
Exhibition included Miss Blanche French
Exhibition included Medals
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1866
Participants
Exhibitors included John Woodhouse
'Medals'
Exhibitors included Joseph Watkins
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James Cahill
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Terence Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Christopher Moore
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1866', 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_1203422730, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
