Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1872
End Date: 1872
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 43 annual catalogue. A total of 457 works exhibited. Of these, 28 works were related to sculpture and included marble busts, statuettes, portrait medallions and preparatory sketches for statuary. Listed towards the end of the catalogue.
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 displayed together.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1872
Participants
Exhibitors included Samuel Ferres Lynn
'Sketch for a Statue of the late Rev. Henry Cooke, DD, LLD'
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1872', 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_1203423290, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
