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CHANTREY, FRANCIS LEGATT (SIR) *#
- Born: 1781 Died: 1841
English sculptor, for biography and works of whom see Oxford DNB and Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 (revised edition, 1968). Chantrey is represented in Ireland by the bust of Sir Denis Pack (d.1823) in Kilkenny Cathedral, the monument to Archbishop William Stuart in Armagh Church of Ireland cathedral (1826), the memorial to the second Earl of Farnham in Cavan church of Ireland church (1826), and, most impressively, by the statue of Henry Grattan in the City Hall, Dublin (1827).
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4 work entries listed in chronological order for CHANTREY, FRANCIS LEGATT (SIR) *#
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Building: | CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COACH ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST CANICE (CI) |
Date: | 1823ca |
Nature: | Bust of Sir Denis Pack (d.1823), also sword & laurels |
Refs: | J. Graves & J.G. Prim, History of St Canice's Cathedral (1857), 334 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, CATHEDRAL CLOSE, CATHEDRAL OF ST PATRICK (CI) |
Date: | 1826 |
Nature: | Monument to Archbishop William Stuart. |
Refs: |
Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 100(illus.); Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 105. |
Building: | CO. CAVAN, CAVAN, CHURCH (CI, URNEY PARISH) |
Date: | 1826 |
Nature: | Two-figure memorial to 2nd Earl of Farnham. |
Refs: |
Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 102; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 250, Pl.67.. |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CORK HILL, ROYAL EXCHANGE |
Date: | 1827 |
Nature: | Statue of Henry Grattan |
Refs: |
Model exh. RA 1826, no. 1067; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 102, Fig. 143.. |