RHA has done much to promote a vibrant Irish visual culture
Such success did it experience in its early years that it paid its officials, an approach with which the treasury was less than happy, but decline set in due the shock of the Great Famine on the Irish economy and a falling off in attendances and sales.“For a period, the academy was headed by duplicate and antagonistic sets of personnel, with George Petrie on one side and Michael Angelo Hayes on the other,” according to Aidan Dunne.
In the event, a new charter was granted, involving a wider membership, the RHA set about tackling its problems and improvement occurred in the later 19th century. ”With a growing domestic market for portraits and other easel paintings, including genre and landscape subjects, Irish artists could make a living at home,” Aidan Dunne has written, and the Celtic revival plus the growing influence of French painting also helped in the creation of a vibrant Irish visual culture.
To make matters worse, its annual exhibition was in progress when the Easter Rising broke out. The shelling of O’Connell Street caused a fire in the academy which destroyed its entire annual exhibition, its library and all its records. Obstacles to its new headquarters were Dublin Corporation’s efforts in the 1950s to compulsorily purchase the site for a car park and builders the Gallagher Group’s ups-and-downs; Matt Gallagher died suddenly in 1974, leaving no provision in his will for the completion of the building, architect Raymond McGrath died in 1977 , and the Gallagher Group collapsed in the early 1980s.
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