128 A HISTORY OF 



for the reception of the students. The plan, however, 

 was not adopted. 



In 1823, some specimens of sculpture by John 

 Hogan, Cork, " a very young artist," were purchased 

 for ^25, as an encouragement; they included legs, 

 arms, &c, which are now in the National Museum. 

 In 1829, a gold medal was voted to Hogan for his 

 Dead Christ, then being exhibited in the Royal Irish 

 Institution, College street. Hogan was born in 

 Tallow in 1800, but his family soon settling in Cork, 

 he worked at an anatomy school in that city. In 

 1824 he went to Rome, where he remained until 1849, 

 and his Drunken Faun, executed there, was admired 

 by Thorwaldsen. Among his most celebrated statues 

 are those of Bishop Brinkley at Cloyne ; of Daniel 

 O'Connell and Thomas Drummond, in the City Hall, 

 Dublin, and of Thomas Osborne Davis, in Mount 

 Jerome Cemetery. Hogan died in 1858. 



In May 1823, a sum of ^1000, together with the 

 amount of the legacy bequeathed to the Society by 

 Major-General White, 1 was voted, to be expended in 

 erecting drawing schools and a gallery for casts from 

 the antique. 



A year later, Mr. Henry Hamilton, who was then 

 in Rome, procured and presented to the schools a 

 mould from the Apollo Belvedere. 



About this time, two pupils of the modelling school 

 — Constantine Panormo and John Gallagher — began 

 to distinguish themselves, and to exhibit signs of ex- 

 ceptional talent. At the end of 1823, it was arranged 

 that they were to be sent to London as pupils to 

 Mr. Behnes, for two years, at ^60 a year each. He 

 wrote to the Society " on behalf of these two young 



1 By his will, proved in the Prerogative Court in 1822, Major- 

 General Sir Henry White, K.C.B., bequeathed .£500 to the Society. 



