Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1879
End Date: 1879
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 50th annual exhibition of over 560 works of art, mainly paintings and drawings. Ten items related to sculpture featured in 1879, including three works on ivory.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1879, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Days: 4,652;
Evening: 26,348;
Season Ticket Holders: 536;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 31,000.
Display Arrangement: Works were distributed between the Large Room, the Ante-Room and the Inner Room. This is the first time that the 'Inner Room' has been mentioned, rather than the 'Antique Academy' or the 'Sculpture Room'.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Medals
Exhibition included The Dauphin
1879
Exhibition included Erin
1879
Exhibition included Bust - The Invitation
1879
Exhibition included Portrait Bust of Mr Robert Mannix
1879
Exhibition included Posthumous Bust of Mervyn Ruthven, Esq.
1879
Exhibition included Posthumous Bust of the late Canon Kingsley
1879
Exhibition included The Page of Honour
1879
Exhibition included A Lady (on Ivory)
1879
Exhibition included Five Miniatures (on Ivory)
1879
Offered for sale Erin
1879
£10
Offered for sale Bust - The Invitation
1879
£105
Marble version available for £105 0s. 0d., as above. Casts also offered at £5 5s. 0d.
Participants
Exhibitors included J. Minton Connell
'A Lady (on Ivory)'
Exhibitors included John Woodhouse
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Millard
Multiple works
Exhibitors included James F. Boyle
'Portrait Bust of Mr Robert Mannix'
Exhibitors included Michael Lawlor
'Bust - The Invitation'
Exhibitors included John Farrell
'Erin'
Exhibitors included James Farrell
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1879', 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_1203937505, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
