Royal Dublin Society, Schools of Drawing
Foundation date: 1746 (Circa)
Dissolution date: 1877
Function: Schools of figure drawing, landscape and ornament, architectural and school of modelling.
Policy: Schools established at different times:
Figure Drawing, 1746.
Landscape and Ornamental Drawing, 1756.
Architectural Drawing, 1764.
School of Modelling, 1811.
Rules: In 1731 the rules for the formation of the Dublin Society included, amongst others, No. 16: 'That a Committee of Arts shall sit once a fortnight in such weeks wherein the Society does not meet, to which committee members may come at pleasure and may admit artists, tradesmen and husbandmen, to assist and inform the members, in such arts and improvements as shall be thought useful, and fit to be encouraged and propagated in this knigdom'.
As featured in Treasures of The Royal Dublin Society, p. 11.
Associated People
Principals included Henry McManus
1849 - 1863
Headmaster of the Drawing Schools, 1849-1863.
as listed in Turpin, A School of Art in Dublin, Appendix 1: Headmasters and Directors'.
Principals included Robert Edwin Lyne
1863 - 1888
Headmaster of the Schools of Drawing, 1863-88.
as listed in Turpin, A School of Art in Dublin, Appendix 1: Headmasters and Directors'.
Citing this record
'Royal Dublin Society, Schools of Drawing', 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=msib3_1216317457, accessed 31 May 2020]
