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WESTMACOTT, RICHARD (THE YOUNGER) *#
- Born: 1799 Died: 1872
Sculptor, of London. Richard Westmacott, the younger, eldest son of Sir RICHARD WESTMACOTT , for whom see Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 (revised edition, [1968]), 428-429, and Oxford DNB, carved the monuments to Edward Henry, Lord Glentworth, in Limerick Church of Ireland Cathedral,1845,(1) and to the Rev. Charles Leslie (d. 1838) in Ballybay Church of Ireland church in Co. Monaghan.(2)
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References
(1) Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 99(illus.).
(2) Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 87.
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Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, BRIDGE STREET, CATHEDRAL OF ST MARY (CI) |
Date: | |
Nature: | Memorial to Edmond Henry, Lord Glentworth, with recumbent effigy. |
Refs: |
Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 99(illus.). |
Building: | CO. MONAGHAN, BALLYBAY, CHRIST CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1838p |
Nature: | Monument to Charles Albert Leslie (d. 1838). |
Refs: |
Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 87. |