Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1903
End Date: 1903
Type: Annual Exhibition
Description: 289 works exhibited in 1903, of which 12 were related to sculpture. Several cases of miniatures also exhibited, and included portrait medallions by Albert Bruce Joy.
Return showing the attendance figures at the RHA exhibition of 1903, from 1906 Report of Enquiry, Appendix I, p. 88:
Type of attendance: No. of persons:
Days 3,395
Evening 2,545
Sunday 1,216
Season Ticket Holders 67*
Total, excl. Season Ticket Holders 7,156
* Charge for a season ticket increased from 3 shillings to 5 shillings for this and following years.
Display Arrangement: The works in sculpture listed towards the end of the catalogue, exhibit nos 277-88. 35 miniatures listed collectively under the final exhibit number 289.
Exhibits
Exhibition included My Mother
Exhibition included The late Lord Cairns
Exhibition included Old Man's Head
Exhibition included Rev. J.P. Mahaffy
p. 24 (282)
Exhibition included His Grace the Primate of Ireland
Exhibition included Vanity
Exhibition included The Late Rev. Wallace McMullen
£5 10s.
Exhibition included Orde Chloinne Lir
Exhibition included Evelyn
1903
Exhibition included Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Albemarle
1903
Exhibition included A Mower
1903
£5 10s.
Exhibition included A Captive Maiden
1903
Offered for sale Vanity
£5 10s.
Offered for sale Orde Chloinne Lir
£100
offered for sale in either marble or bronze at above price
Offered for sale A Mower
1903
£50
Offered for sale A Captive Maiden
1903
£15 15s.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1903
Participants
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
'Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Albemarle'
Exhibitors included Frederic Charles Mulock
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Lilla Vanston
'Vanity'
Exhibitors included William Farrell
'The Late Rev. Wallace Mc Mullen'
Exhibitors included Beatrice Elvery
'A Mower'
Exhibitors included Oliver Sheppard
'Orde Chloinne Lir '
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
1903
£15 15s.
p. 24, no. 280: The late Lord Cairns.
p. 24, no. 281: Old Man's Head.
p. 26, 4 miniatures by Bruce Joy, amongst 35 listed works in miniature:
no. 28: A Portrait - Silver Medallion.
no. 29: Boy - Plaster Medallion.
no. 30: Portrait - Silver Medallion
no. 31: Portrait - Cyril Joy - Silver Plaque.
Citing this record
'Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1903', 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_1205238115, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
