ii2 A HISTORY OF 



drawing : and the pupils were instructed in ornament 

 by James Mannin. The Recollections of John O'Keefe, 

 the dramatist, who studied in the school, contains a 

 vivid picture of the drawing academy. He says that it 

 was frequently visited by members of the Society, the 

 Lord Lieutenant, and some of the nobility. In his 

 day, the students' text-book was the Preceptor, by 

 Robert Dodsley, published in 1748. 



Joseph Fenn, described as Professor in Nantes 

 University, brought before the Society in 1764 a plan 

 of instruction for the schools, which was approved by 

 it four years later. It will be found embodied in his 

 work entitled Instructions given in the Drawing School 

 established by the Dublin Society . . . 1768. Mr. 

 W. G. Strickland, in his Dictionary of Irish Artists, 

 ii. 583, gives an interesting account of the Fenn 

 episode, and remarks that his ambitious and varied 

 programme seems never to have been carried out, 

 or even attempted. 



Joseph Wilton, sculptor, of Charing Cross, London, 

 wrote in June 1757, that several cases of busts, &c., 

 which had cost ^219, 15^., had been packed and 

 put on board vessels for transit to the Society. 

 John Crawley, one of Van Nost's apprentices, and 

 a Madden prizeman, petitioned to be sent abroad, 

 and j8o were agreed to be paid by instalments to 

 Dr. Pococke, the bishop of Ossory, with a view to 

 Crawley's receiving instruction on the continent. In 

 May 1761, Matthew William Peters, another pupil, 

 asked for ^30, to be expended on his being sent to 

 Italy, for his improvement in the art of painting. 



fine work of Ivory, was Newcomen House, opposite the Upper Castle 

 gate, now used as offices by the Corporation of Dublin. Ivory had 

 been master of the architectural drawing school from 1759, and died 

 in 1786. 



