Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1896
End Date: 1896
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 67th annual exhibition. A total of 445 works were exhibited, of which 6 objects were sculpture-related.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1896, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Days: 2,522;
Evening: 8,069;
Sunday: 1,249;
Season Ticket Holders: 153;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 11,840.
Display Arrangement: The exhibits were displayed in Galleries I, II and III. Sculptural objects seem to have been displayed separately.
Exhibits
Exhibition included A Captive
1896
Exhibition included The Bather
1896
Exhibition included La Canteuse
1896
Exhibition included The Challenge
1896
Exhibition included Lament for Bauba
1896
Exhibition included A Knitting Lesson
1896
Offered for sale La Canteuse
1896
£10 10s.
Plaster model exhibited, but version in bronze offered for £10 10s. 0d., as above.
Offered for sale The Challenge
£21
Plaster model exhibited, but version in bronze offered for £21 0s. 0d., as above.
Offered for sale Lament for Bauba
1896
£35
Offered for sale A Knitting Lesson
1896
£3
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1896
Participants
Exhibitors included John Hughes
'La Canteuse '
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
'A Captive'
Exhibitors included Joseph Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Oliver Sheppard
'Lament for Bauba'
Exhibitors included Louis Jacob
'A Knitting Lesson '
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1896', 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_1204296803, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
