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Mossop, Mulvany, and Williams), with the four draw- 

 ing masters, were to be invited to assist in selecting 

 works of art and old paintings for the gallery. Proper 

 apartments were to be provided for the life school. 

 A gallery of marbles and casts, drawings and etchings, 

 was to be formed, and a fund was to be appropriated 

 yearly for the acquisition of " Old Masters." Govern- 

 ment was to be requested on public days to guard 

 the main entrance, and commissioned officers were 

 to be admitted to the landscape and perspective 

 schools, with a view to qualifying as civil and military 

 engineers. 



The committee reported against most of the re- 

 solutions, as having been drawn up without accurate 

 knowledge, while many of them had been acted on as 

 rules for years. The resolutions implied that the 

 schools were intended solely for forming artists and 

 painters, whereas they were for those employed in arts, 

 science, and manufactures. The regulations which had 

 been already drawn up were arrived at, the committee 

 said, on mature advice and deliberation with artists, the 

 Royal Academy, and the British Institution. The 9th 

 resolution would abrogate the gratuitous instruction, 

 which already occupied most serious attention ; many 

 youths of promise might be kept away, and it would 

 create invidious distinctions. 



In 18 15, the Hibernian Society of Artists and 

 other Dublin artists, presented a memorial to the 

 Society, and on the report of the committee ap- 

 pointed to consider it, a general committee from among 

 the artists was nominated to manage the annual 

 exhibition. 



The use of the exhibition room in Hawkins street 

 was granted in 1 815- 16- 17- 19, for united exhibitions 

 of artists' works. 



