Royal Exhibitions Scholarship, 1894

Start Date: 1894 (Circa)

Type: Scholarship

Policy: There were thirty 'Royal Exhibitions' awards, ten of which were open each year to the National Art Training School or the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin.

The 1894 National Art Training School's 'Prospectus', described the conditions of the award as follows:

'A Royal Exhibition is tenable for three years, and entitles the holder to free admission to the National Art Training School at South Kensington or the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin, for the session of about 42 weeks each year, and during that time to a maintenance allowance of 25s. a week and third-class railway fare for one journey to and fro, each session, between the home of the Scholar and London or Dublin. The Royal Exhibitions are held on the condition that the Exhibitioner attends the course of instruction laid down for his guidance, and makes satisfactory progress'.

Competitors had to be under twenty-five years old. Art teachers and National Scholars 'past and present' were not eligible to hold a Royal Exhibition award.

Citing this record

'Royal Exhibitions Scholarship, 1894', 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=msib4_1267446800, accessed 21 Sep 2021]