Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1871
End Date: 1871
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 42nd annual exhibition. A total of 424 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: 37 works displayed in the Sculpture Room, of which 35 were sculptures and the 2 remaining works were either two paintings or drawings.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Blanche
1871
Exhibition included Miss Hayes
Exhibition included The late Rev. Ambrose Power, Archdeacon of Lismore (Posthumous)
1871
Exhibition included The late John Skipton Mulvany, RHA, Architect
1871
Exhibition included Marble Medallion - Daniel McCarthy
Exhibition included Head of a Nymph
1871
Exhibition included The late Charles Dickens
1871
Exhibition included Lady Bellingham
1871
Exhibition included The late Earl Derby
1871
Exhibition included Medallion - Miss L'Estrange
Exhibition included Henry Carey, Esq.
1871
Exhibition included Marble Medallion of the late Alexander McCarthy
Exhibition included Looking at the Sea
1871
Exhibition included Viscount Bangor
1871
Exhibition included Judith
1871
Exhibition included Alfred Grey, Esq., RHA
1871
Exhibition included The Nymph Eucharis and Love
1871
Exhibition included The late Maurice Colles, Esq., MD
1871
Exhibition included Saved from the Wreck
1871
Exhibition included The late Dr Stacpoole (Posthumous)
1871
Exhibition included Statuette in Marble - 'Sacre Coeur'
1871
Exhibition included Posthumous Bust of the late Sir B. Guinness
1871
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait of a Lady 'Posthumous'
Exhibition included Sir Alan Bellingham, Bart
1871
Exhibition included Bust of a Lady
Offered for sale The late Earl Derby
1871
£2 2s.
Offered for sale Looking at the Sea
1871
£100
Offered for sale Judith
1871
£400
Offered for sale Statuette in Marble - 'Sacre Coeur'
1871
£15
Offered for sale Saved from the Wreck
1871
£100
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1871
Participants
Exhibitors included R. Sidney Smith
'Bust of a Lady'
Exhibitors included Joseph Watkins
'The late Maurice Colles, Esq., MD'
Exhibitors included Joseph Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Farrell
'Statuette in Marble - 'Sacre Coeur''
Exhibitors included James F. Boyle
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included H.W.D. Dunlop
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Stewart Kirk
'The late John Skipton Mulvany, RHA, Architect'
Exhibitors included John Farrell
1872
Fine Arts, Sculpture:
A Sleeping Youth (p. 79 (14), owned by the artist); A Poetess reclining (p. 80 (16), owned by the artist, offered for sale at £400 0s. 0d.); Judith (p. 80 (35), owned by the artist, offered for sale at £400 0s. 0d.).
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1871', 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_1203423252, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
