i 3 4 A HISTORY OF 



Trade attended in May of that year, and on his 

 reporting that the schools were suitable, it was resolved 

 that the new gallery, once the drawing schools, should 

 be appropriated to the purposes of the Government, 

 as the school of design was to be in connection with 

 the Society. The drawing schools were to be the 

 basis for this school, which was specially intended for 

 artisans, and was to be open five evenings in the week, 

 under the superintendence of a head master, to be 

 appointed by the Board of Trade. The masters were 

 to be appointed by the fine arts committee, in which 

 was vested the general government of the school. 

 The drawing and modelling schools were to be con- 

 solidated into one department as " The Government 

 School of Design in connection with the Royal Dublin 

 Society." It was opened on the ist of October 1849, 

 Mr. Henry McManus being appointed head master, with 

 the masters of the four schools as assistants. Three 

 hundred and six pupils attended at the opening. 



In June 1852, Panormo died, and J. R. Kirk, 

 a.r.h.a., succeeded him as master of the modelling 

 school. 



In February i860, Messrs. Charles E. Bagot and 

 Charles Leech, executors of Captain George Archibald 

 Taylor, of Mespil parade, Dublin, submitted a plan 

 for endowment of prizes for the encouragement of art 

 students in Ireland, in conformity with the terms of 

 his will. The Master in Chancery sanctioned the 

 Society taking charge of the trust, believing it to be 

 eminently suitable for the purpose, and Captain 

 Taylor's executors were thanked for selecting the 

 Society as the medium for carrying the trusts into 

 execution. In connection with this, an annual Exhi- 

 bition of pupils' works sent in for competition was 

 inaugurated, the judges being Catterson Smith, re- 



