Henry McManus RHA
Born 1810
Died 22 March 1878
Active: 1835 - 1878
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor, painter, teacher
Little is known of McManus' early life before he began exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1835. At that date he was living in Monaghan. In 1836 McManus became a Member of the recently founded Association of Artists in Belfast. Between 1837-44, he worked in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Old Watercolour Society from 1839 to 1843. In 1845 McManus was made headmaster of the Glasgow School of Design, a post he retained until 1849 when he was appointed headmaster of the School of Design in Dublin. McManus was a successful and highly regarded teacher, and introduced evening and day classes for women. He retired in 1863 and was presented with an address and a silver palette by the students in the school. The Royal Dublin Society made him an Honorary Professor of the Fine Arts. After retirement, McManus continued to exhibit with the RHA until his death in 1878.
There is a more detailed biography of Henry McManus at http://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/henry-macmanus.php (accessed 15 April 2013).
Works
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Topsy
1858
Bust of a Lady
1864
Sculptor listed as H. MacManus. Presume that it is H.McManus.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1858
'Topsy'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1864
Multiple works
Institutional and Business Connections
Principal of Royal Dublin Society, Schools of Drawing
1849 - 1863
Headmaster of the Drawing Schools, 1849-1863.
as listed in Turpin, A School of Art in Dublin, Appendix 1: Headmasters and Directors'.
Sources
A School of Art in Dublin since the Eighteenth Century - A History of the National College of Art and Design.
1995
Appendix 1:Headmasters and Directors'.
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Thirty-Sixth Exhibition, 1864 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1864
p. 24 (451)
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1858 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1858
Citing this record
'Henry McManus RHA', 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/person.php?id=msib3_1202901948, accessed 02 Feb 2023]
