Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY

Name: JOHNSTON, FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY
Date: 1824-26
Nature: Classical, 3-storey, 4-bay, built by FJ at a personal cost of £14,000. FS laid 29 Apr 1824. Building completed 1826. Builder: Edward Carolin. (Destroyed by fire, 1916; only upper storeys of façade survive, 2008.)
Refs: Designs in IAA, Murray Collection, nos. 300-309 (see Murray Collection catalogue, 123-127; section repr. in The Architecture of Dublin in Drawings and Paintings (National Gallery of Ireland, 1975), no. 59); Thomas Bell, An Essay on the origin and progress of Gothic Architecture in Ireland' (1828), addenda, pp. 269-70; Dublin Penny Journal 4, 24 Oct 1835, 136; 'Annals of Dublin' in Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac (1847); DB 1, 1 Oct 1859, 132; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II. 610; Thomas Ryan, 'The Vicissitudes of the Royal Hibernian Academy', Irish Arts Review (Autumn 1985), 26-27;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 177.

Name: CAROLIN, EDWARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY
Date: 1824-26
Nature: EC builds Francis Johnston's design
Refs: Dublin Penny Journal, 24 Oct 1835, 136

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY
Date: 1829
Nature: Statue gallery, for Mrs Ann Johnston (widow of Francis Johnston).
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 310-324 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 124-127; section exh. RHA 1830, no. 259

Name: OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY
Date: 1873
Nature: Alts. to gallery.
Refs: B 31, 22 Mar 1873, 235

Name: SMYTH, JOHN [4]*
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ABBEY STREET LOWER, ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY
Date: ?
Nature: Heads of Palladio, Michelangelo and Raphael over door and windows. (Removed during rebuilding in 20th century.)
Refs: Dublin Penny Journal 4 (1835), 136; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 392