Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1876

End Date: 1876

Type: Annual exhibition

Description: 47th annual exhibition. A total of 451 works were exhibited.

Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1876:
Days: 4,196;
Evening: 19,020;
Season Ticket Holders: 311;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 23,216.

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: The works in sculpture were listed towards the end of the catalogue (17) under 'Sculpture'. Five further paintings were listed in this section, so these paintings may have been displayed alongside the sculpture in the 'Antique Academy'.

Citing this record

'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1876', 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_1203423740, accessed 22 Mar 2023]