Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND

Name: LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1850
Nature: 'Design for a national gallery' exh. RHA.
Refs: RHA 1850, nos. 338,357; B 8, 24 Aug 1850, 406

Name: MULVANY, GEORGE FRANCIS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1856
Nature: Unexecuted proposal for same.
Refs: Ground and first-floor plans and transverse section  (2 copies of earh) in NGI, (nos. 18098,18099,18901-18904).

Name: BELL, JAMES [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1856-57
Nature: Worked with Lanyon on designs for same.
Refs: Catherine de Courcy, The Foundation of the National Gallery of Ireland (1985), 38; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 96

Name: LANYON & LYNN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1858-64
Nature: Amended design by Mulvany.. Design revised again by Captain Fowke.
Refs: B 16, 6 Feb,10 Jul 1858, 93,470; 22, 6,27 Feb 1864, 101,155; for an account of the design and building of the gallery, see Catherine de Courcy, The Foundation of the National Gallery of Ireland (National Gallery of Ireland, 1985), Chapters 2 & 3;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 562.



Name: FOWKE, FRANCIS #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1858-64
Nature: Designed gallery at request of Department of Science, superseding designs by Mulvany and Lanyon. Copied external dimensions of Natural History Museum (designed by F.V. Clarendon) and prepared his own internal arrangements. FS laid 7 Jan 1859. Formally opened 30 Jan 1864. Contractor: Cockburn & Sons.
Refs: 200 drawings in NGI; for an account of the design and building of the gallery, see Catherine de Courcy, The Foundation of the National Gallery of Ireland (National Gallery of Ireland, 1985), Chapters 2 & 3; B 16, 16 Jul,6 Nov 1858, 470,751; 17, 5 Feb 1859, 94; 22, 6,27 Feb 1864, 101,155; DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 31; 6, 1 Feb,1 Mar 1864, 17,35; RIAI council meeting minutes, 4 Mar 1864, 11; general meeting minutes, 18 Feb,17 Mar 1864, 137,139;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 561-3.

Name: GRIFFITH, RICHARD JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1859
Nature: Work in progress 'under direction' of RG. Builder: Cockburn & Son. Clerk of Works: Mellon.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Aug 1859, 94

Name: COCKBURN, GILBERT [1] *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1859-1864
Nature: GC contractor
Refs: DB 4, 15 Feb 1862, 43

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1864
Nature: Bronze statue of William Dargan. 'the Man with his hand in his pocket', in front of gallery, by Thomas Farrell. Landed in Dublin from London boat 14 May 1863 at which time pedestal of polished Galway granite after Thos. Farrell's design was being 'rapidly proceeded with'.
Refs: DB 5, 15 May 1863, 90; 6, 1 Feb 1864, 17-18; W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 338;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 164(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 564.


Name: OWEN, ENOCH TREVOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1876
Nature: Extension to Sculpture Gallery.
Refs: Drawing(s) in NA. OPW records, old ref. H.1.3

Name: CAMBI, CARLO *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1899
Nature: Carved walnut door surrounds in Milltown Wing.
Refs: Patricia McCarthy, 'From Torpedo Boat to Temples of Culture: Carlo Cambi's Route to Ireland', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 18 (2002), 76,77(illus.)

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1899-1901
Nature: Drawings completed for additions (Milltown Wing), and contract arranged before TND's death. Tenders invited, Sep 1899 Estimated cost of Meade & Sons' tender, £18,384. Continued by Thomas Manly Deane.
Refs: Drawings dated 1899 for new porch and balcony, Milltown Galleries &c. in NA, OPW drawings collection (old ref. H.1.3); IAA, PKS 0820, B19/24, A08 (Aug 1899); Irish Times, 16,18,29 Sep 1899;  IB 43, 27 Feb 1901, 643;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 563.

Name: DEANE, THOMAS MANLY (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND
Date: 1900-1903
Nature: Responsible for carrying out plans by T.N. Deane & Son. Builder: Meade. Cost: £30,000. Building  'rapidly approaching completion' and roof reached, Sep 1901. Reopened, Apr or May 1903.
Refs: Drawing of proposed alteration to Room 14, dated 11 Dec 1901, in NLI, no. 18,300; IAA, PKS 0820, B19/24, A08 (Aug 1899); IB 43, 27 Feb, 29 Aug 1901, 643, 845; 44, 30 Jan 1902, 1020; 45, 26 Mar, 9 Apr 1903, 1663,1690, 1702; 46, 3 Dec 1904, 802; 53, 22 Jul 1911, 484 (illus.);  Irish Times, 14 Sep 1901, 4 May 1903;  IA & C 1, 13 May 1911, 219, 226.