The Royal National Eisteddfod
Other names: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Frenhinol Cymru
Function: Art festival
Policy: The aim of the Arts and Crafts section of the National Eisteddfod was/is: 'the foundation…of an annual exhibition with a high reputation both within and outside Wales… and second, the use of the annual occasion of our greatest national festival to create a market for pictures in Wales.'
Meeting schedule: annual
Activities: exhibitions (open to non-members), exhibitions (members only), meetings, musical entertainments, musical evenings, social events, social meetings
Publications: exhibition catalogues, leaflets
Benefits: grants and prizes, medals, prizes
Composition: amateur artists, amateur painters, amateurs, professional artists, professional engravers, professional musicians, professional painters, professional sculptors, professional writers
Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events
Organized Arts and Crafts Exhibition of the Royal National Eisteddfod, 1950
7 August 1950 - 12 August 1950
Admission 1s.6d.
Organized Eisteddfod Llawlyfr Celf a Chrefft, 1948
1948
Organized Eisteddfod Llawlyfr Celf a Chrefft, 1947
4 August 1947 - 9 August 1947
Organized National Eisteddfod, 1937
26 July 1937 - 14 August 1937
Organized The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales Arts, Crafts and Loan Exhibition, 1933
24 July 1933 - 12 August 1933
Organized Art Exhibitions of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Loan Collections at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 1926
26 July 1926 - 12 August 1926
Organized Royal National Eisteddfod Arts, Crafts, Science and Loan Exhibition, 1912
20 August 1912 - 7 September 1912
Organized Art Exhibition of the Royal National Eisteddfod, 1883
1883
Sources
Catalogue to the Art Exhibition of the Royal National Eisteddfod, Cardiff, 1883
1883
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Frenhinol Cymru Caerffili 1950
Handbook of arts and crafts exhibition
1950
Official Catalogue of the Royal National Eisteddfod Arts, Crafts, Science and Loan Exhibition, 1912
1912
The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Catalogue of the Art Loan Exhibition 1926
1926
Citing this record
'The Royal National Eisteddfod', 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/organization.php?id=msib1_1202399718, accessed 08 Aug 2020]
