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presenting the Royal Hibernian Academy, Sir George 

 Hodson the National Gallery, and R. J. Macrory the 

 Society. Thirteen works were sent in, when William 

 McEvoy was awarded ^7 for the best landscape in 

 oils ; Annie C. White a similar sum for the best archi- 

 tectural drawing Interior of St. Paul's ; Mary Alment 

 and Henry Crowley obtaining lesser prizes for their 

 landscapes. The administration of this trust still 

 remains in the hands of the Society, and in recent 

 years many artists of repute were, in their student 

 days, winners of Taylor art scholarships or prizes. 



From 1749 to 1849, when fees were first paid, all 

 students were admitted free to the schools. From 

 1854, when the grant was withdrawn, and the func- 

 tions of the Board of Trade devolved on the Science 

 and Art Department, all schools of art were to be 

 self-supporting. 



The Society's control over the schools ceased in 

 1878, when, with other sections under its superin- 

 tendence, they were placed under the Science and Art 

 Department. 



