Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1899
End Date: 1899
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 70th annual exhibition. A total of 392 works were exhibited, of which 16 objects were sculpture-related.
The layout of the exhibits in the catalogue differs in 1899, with miniatures appearing at the end of the catalogue, listed after sculpture.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1899, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Days: 2,830;
Evening: 4,714;
Sunday: 2,165;
Season Ticket Holders: 141;
Total, excluding Season Ticket Holders: 9,709.
Display Arrangement: The exhibits were displayed in Galleries I, II and III. Sculptural objects seem to have been displayed separately.
Exhibits
Exhibition included The late Right Hon. Sir Patrick J. Keenan, KCMG, CB, LLD
1899
£1 5s.
Exhibition included The late Father Reffe, President of Blackrock College
1899
Exhibition included The Last Arrow
1899
Exhibition included Finn-foya (Sweet-voiced)
1899
Exhibition included Chivalry
1899
Exhibition included Bust - Sir John Lubbock, Bart, MP
1899
Exhibition included Portrait Medallion - Mrs Morison
1899
Exhibition included L'Âme du Vin
1899
Exhibition included John and Sebastian Cabot, the discoverers of America, and pioneers of British maritime enterprise
1899
£36 15s.
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait
Exhibition included A Keener
1899
Exhibition included Thirteen
1899
Exhibition included Study of Head
1899
Exhibition included Bubbles
1899
£10
Exhibition included Silence
1899
£1 5s.
Exhibition included Fortune - Telling
1899
Offered for sale Finn-foya (Sweet-voiced)
1899
£45
Offered for sale Chivalry
1899
£10
Offered for sale L'Âme du Vin
1899
£36 15s.
Offered for sale A Keener
1899
£25
Offered for sale Study of Head
1899
£10
Offered for sale Bubbles
1899
£1 5s.
Offered for sale Silence
1899
£4 4s.
Offered for sale Fortune - Telling
1899
£1 5s.
Offered for sale Medallion Portrait
£36 15s.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1899
Participants
Exhibitors included John Cassidy
'John and Sebastian Cabot, the discoverers of America, and pioneers of British maritime enterprise'
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
'Medallion Portrait '
Exhibitors included John Hughes
'L'Âme du Vin'
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
'Portrait Medallion - Mrs Morison'
Exhibitors included Mervyn Lawrence
'A Keener'
Exhibitors included Thomas Farrell
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Oliver Sheppard
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Briton Riviere
'The Last Arrow'
Exhibitors included Michael J. Shortall
'Study of Head'
Exhibitors included Sophia Rosamond Praeger
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1899', 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_1204297151, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
