Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1870
End Date: 1870
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 41st annual exhibition. A total of 420 works exhibited, 45 of these under sculpture and consisted of busts in marble, medallion portraits, statuettes, religious statues and medallions for a public monument.
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 alone now featured in the Sculpture Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Bust of a Child
1870
Exhibition included Countess Laure Przezdziexka
1870
Exhibition included Bust of a Lady
1870
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait of F. W. Burton, Esq.
Exhibition included Medallion of Miss L'Estrange
Exhibition included Lady Brooke
1870
Exhibition included The late Captain Hall
1870
Exhibition included Medallion of Mrs Colonel Barnett
Exhibition included Bust of a Gentleman
1870
Exhibition included Olioll Olum, King of Munster in the 3rd Century
1870
Exhibition included Sunshine
1870
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait of a Lady
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait of a Gentleman
Exhibition included Marble Bust of R. P. Bayley, Esq., JP, and D. L. Roscommon
Exhibition included Daniel McCarthy, Esq.
1870
Exhibition included Evangeline
1870
Exhibition included Master Lennan
Exhibition included Dante in Exile
1870
Exhibition included Statuette - Portrait of a Lady
1870
Exhibition included Statue of St Peter
1870
Exhibition included Musing
Exhibition included The late Professor Jukes
1870
Exhibition included Titania
1870
Exhibition included Summer - In Marble
1870
Exhibition included Lashed to the Helm
1870
Exhibition included S. N. E.
1870
Exhibition included A Little Dunce
1870
Exhibition included Spring
1870
Exhibition included Posthumous Bust of the Rev. Dr Todd
1870
Exhibition included Milesius
Exhibition included The Bishop of Peterboro
1870
Exhibition included Bust of F. Lewis, Esq.
1870
Exhibition included Medallion for his Eminence Cardinal Cullen
Exhibition included Marble Bust of the late Mrs O'Hagan
Exhibition included The late Alexander McCarthy, MP for Cork
1870
Exhibition included Beatrice
1870
Exhibition included Heber Fionn - eldest son of Milesius, King of Spain
1870
Exhibition included Bust of a Lady
1870
Exhibition included Specimens of Medal Die Engraving
1870
Exhibition included Bust of a Lady
1870
Exhibition included Prince Herman de Solms Braunfels - Medallion Portrait
1870
Exhibition included Bust of Roderick O'Farrall
1870
Exhibition included Marble Bust of the late Francis Brooke, Esq.
Exhibition included Sir Victor Brooke, Bart
Offered for sale Sunshine
1870
£63
Offered for sale Evangeline
1870
£1 1s.
Offered for sale Titania
1870
£200
Offered for sale Summer - In Marble
1870
£63
Offered for sale Lashed to the Helm
1870
£20
Offered for sale Spring
1870
£63
Offered for sale Posthumous Bust of the Rev. Dr Todd
1870
£1 1s.
Offered for sale Beatrice
1870
£63
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1870
Participants
Exhibitors included Joseph Watkins
'Marble Bust of the late Mrs O'Hagan'
Exhibitors included William Millard
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Edward Gibson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Woodhouse
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Lawlor
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James F. Boyle
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Joseph Robinson Kirk
Multiple works
Exhibitors included R. Sidney Smith
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1870', 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_1203423207, accessed 30 Mar 2023]
