Mr Albert G. Power ARHA, RHA, ESQ
Died 10 July 1945
Active: 1908 - 1945
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Memorial Bust of the late T. M. Kettle - Posthumous
Hammer Man
1906
Bean o'n gCoill (Woman of the Woods)
1909
Statuette
1910
A Youth
1910
Marble Relief
1910
Portrait of W. Orpen's Daughter (RHA)
1911
The Golden Age
1911
L'Écume
1912
'An Carraig' ('The Rock')
1912
£15 15s.
Portrait - Bablin Jellett
1912
Bey Jellett
1913
James Stephens
1913
p. 41, no. 547.
The late James T. Shaw, KC, Recorder of Belfast
1913
Statuette
1913
Spring
1914
£200
Statuette in Bronze
1914
The Bully
1914
The Kiss
1915
Statuette
1915
Icarus
1916
p. 36, no. 509.
Head of a Boy
1916
'To the Front' - A Dublin Fusilier
1916
A Head
1917
W. B. Yeats
1918
Lord Dunsany
1918
Head of a Child
1918
p. 29.
This object was exhibited in a glass case containing 6 sculptures and 15 miniatures, executed by various sculptors..
Lancelot - Michael King-French
1918
p. 29. This object was exhibited in a glass case containing 6 sculptures and 15 miniatures, executed by various sculptors.
Portrait of a Child
1919
Group
1920
Head of a Girl
1920
The Venerable Oliver Plunkett
1921 (Circa)
Head of a Boy
1921 (Circa)
Statuette
1921 (Presumed)
Portrait of a Child
1922 (Presumed)
Archbishop Mannix
1922 (Presumed)
£150
The Ven. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh 1629-1631
1923 (Presumed)
£150
Relief No. 1
1923 (Presumed)
Relief No. 2
1923 (Presumed)
Elizabeth, daughter of C. P. Curran, Esq.
1924 (Presumed)
The late President, Arthur Griffith
1924 (Presumed)
The Kiss
1925 (Presumed)
The Rag Picker
1925 (Presumed)
Stone Seat
1925 (Presumed)
An Bainrioghan Tailte (The Tailte Queen)
1925 (Presumed)
2RN Calling
1926 (Presumed)
£30
The Dream of the Angler of the West
1934 (Presumed)
£30
Bethel Solomons, MB, FRCPI
1934 (Presumed)
O'Connor
1935 (Presumed)
Wolf Hound for Liam Lynch Memorial
1935 (Presumed)
Noel
1937 (Presumed)
General Michael Collins
1937 (Presumed)
President Arthur Griffith
1937 (Presumed)
Icarus, Icarus. Nohina - Dedit Aquis
1941 (Presumed)
£75
Statuette
1941 (Presumed)
£30
Leenane, Connemara
1942 (Presumed)
£100
Locations
Address 16 Avondale Avenue North Circular Road Dublin | View on map
1906 - 1908
Address 18 Geraldine Street Dublin | View on map
1921 - 1942 (Circa)
Ran a business at 15 Berkeley Street Dublin | View on map
1931 - 1946
'Sculptors'.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1906
'Hammer Man'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1908
'Mother and Child'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1909
'Bean o'n gCoill (Woman of the Woods)'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1910
'Statuette'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1911
'The Golden Age'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1912
'Portrait - Bablin Jellett'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1913
'Statuette'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1914
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1915
'Statuette'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1916
'Head of a Boy'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1917
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1918
'Head of a Child'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1919
'Portrait of a Child'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1920
'Head of a Girl'
Exhibited at The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland Fourth Exhibition, 1910
1910 (Presumed)
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1921
1921
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1922
1922
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1923
1923
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1924
1924
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1925
1925
Exhibited several works, including Statuette (title in Ancient Gaelic, cat. no. 349).
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1926
1926
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1934
1934
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1935
1935
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1937
1937
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1941
31 March 1941 - 17 May 1941
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1942
30 March 1942 - 16 May 1942
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1946
15 April 1946 - 11 May 1946
An additional sculpture section commemorated the life and works of Albert G. Power. 10 works in total.
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected RHA Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
18 October 1911 - 1945
Elected ARHA 18th October 1911 & RHA from 18th Spril 1919
Elected to membership of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1912
ARHA in 1912.
Received prize from Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
1907
Listed as a siver medallist in the National Art Competition, p. of the Headmaster's Annual Report, for year ending July 1907.
Prize awarded for meodelling a figure from life.
Studied at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
1907
Listed as a siver medallist in the National Art Competition, p. of the Headmaster's Annual Report, for year ending July 1907.
Prize awarded for meodelling a figure from life.
Personal and Professional Connections
Related to May Power
Listed living at the same address in 1933. Presumably Father and Daughter, Husband and Wife or Brother and Sister
Related to James Power
(1942) Listed living at the same address as Albert G. Power. Presumably Albert\'s son.
Studied under Oliver Sheppard
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1931 Thom's Directory
'Sculptors'.
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1936 Thom's Directory
'Sculptors'.
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1941 Thom's Directory
'Sculptors'.
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1946 Thom's Directory
'Sculptors'.
Sources
Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin. Headmaster's Report for the Year ending 31 July 1907 Headmaster's Annual Reports
Listed as a silver medallist in the National Art Competition. Prize awarded for modelling a figure from life.
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Eighth Exhibition, 1917 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1917
p. 24 (299-300)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Fifth Annual Exhibition, 1914 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1914
p. 37 (523-25)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Fourth Exhibition, 1913 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1913
p. 41 (546-48, 559)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Ninth Exhibition, 1918 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1918
p. 28 (345-46) and p. 29, 2 items in glass case, containing 6 sculptures and 15 miniatures, no. 2: 'Head of a Child' and no. 5: 'Lancelot' (Michael King-French).
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Seventh Exhibition, 1916 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1916
p. 36 (509-11)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1915 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1915
p. 33 (486-87)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Eighty-Third Exhibition, 1912 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1912
p. 36 (501-3)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninetieth Exhibition, 1919 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1919
p. 28 (378)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Eighth Exhibition, 1927
1927
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Fifth Exhibition, 1924
1924
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-First Exhibition, 1920 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1920
pp. 28-29 (340, 345, 351)
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Fourth Exhibition, 1923
1923
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Ninth Exhibition, 1928
1928
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Second Exhibition, 1921
1921
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Seventh Exhibition, 1926
1926
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Sixth Exhibition, 1925
1925
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Ninety-Third Exhibition, 1922
1922
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Eighth Exhibition, 1937
1937
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Fifth Exhibition, 1934
1934
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and First Exhibition, 1930
1930
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Fourth Exhibition, 1933
1933
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Ninth Exhibition, 1938
1938
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Second Exhibition, 1931
1931
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Exhibition, 1946
1946
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Sixth Exhibition, 1935
1935
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Third Exhibition, 1932
1932
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Exhibition, 1942
1942
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundred and Twelfth Exhibition, 1941
1941
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the One Hundredth Exhibition, 1929
1929
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1906 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1906
p. 29 (388)
The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland Catalogue of the Fourth Exhibition, 1910
1910
Citing this record
'Mr Albert G. Power ARHA, RHA, ESQ', 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_1205317819, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
