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Career/Role in the Royal Hibernian Academy
At the Académie Royale in Antwerp, Allan initiated his studies in the antiquity course. He was soon after given the fifth prize for drawing from a figure in May of 1885. Following that, he studied under Karel Verlat in the life class, where in 1887 he came in fourth for a painting based on a model. While many of the Irish artists in Antwerp later settled in France to paint, Allan traveled back to his home country, Ireland, in 1888. Allan was inspired by the work of artists affiliated with the Hague school, like | Jozef Israels, as was the case with many Irish students at Antwerp, and this element of nostalgia may be detected in Allan's painting ‘A Dutch interior’. He began to display his paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1889, and kept sending artwork to the Gallery's yearly exhibition until 1912, having a grand total of 113 works displayed. In 1893, his painting "Little Matchseller" earned him the Albert prize, leading, eventually, to his being elected as an associate member of the Royal Hibernian Academy on the 18th of April 1895. His notably most expensive painting at £250 was exhibited in 1898, called “Martial Law - An Episode of the Irish Rebellion in 1798”, after which the Royal Hibernian Academy saw “The Holy Women and St John with the Body of our Lord”, resulting in him becoming a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy on the 18th January 1901. He went on to serve as treasurer from 1909 to 1911. His works were also displayed at the Cork International Exhibition in 1902 and the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin in 1907, intertwining with his feature in two exhibitions of Irish art in London: The Guildhall exhibition of Irish paintings in 1904, and the Whitechapel exhibition of Irish art in 1913.

Death
After a prolonged illness, Allan passed away on the 2nd of September 1912, aged 47, in Rathmines, Dublin and was thus laid to rest in the Mount Jerome Cemetery, not too far from the Royal Hibernian Academy itself. After which, his dear friend, artist and fellow treasurer, Joseph Kavanagh, submitted “A Dutch Interior” to the National Gallery of Ireland, which can still be viewed there today.