Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL

Name: WILLIAMSON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: Competition entrant? Exhibits 'Design for Wellington Monument' at RHA 1827.
Refs: RHA 1827, No. 213

Name: PAPWORTH, GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: Entrant in Wellington Testimonial competition.
Refs: Designs exh. Hibernian Society of Artists, Dublin , 1814, nos. 7,233,235; 1815, nos. 193,201,217; Society of Artists of Ireland, Dublin, 1819, nos. 122,130,174

Name: HILL, EDWARD (DR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: Short-listed entrant in Wellington Testimonial competition with design in form of circular temple.
Refs: NLI PF 20 (AD 1927?); Irish Architectural Drawings (exhibition catalogue,1965), 9 (no. 22); John Leslie Foster, A Letter on the fittest style and situation for the Wellington Trophy about to be erected in Dublin (1815), 20-26.

Name: HAMILTON, DAVID #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: 'Mr Hamilton' a short-listed entrant in Wellington Testimonial competition with design for an obelisk.
Refs: NLI PF 20 (AD 1927?); Irish Architectural Drawings (exhibition catalogue,1965), 9 (no. 22);  John Leslie Foster, A letter on the fittest style and situation for the Wellington Trophy about to be erected in Dublin (1815), 5; Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh, History of Dublin (1818), II, 1106

Name: FARRELL, WILLIAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: Design for monument.
Refs: Elevation in William Farrell album, Houghton Library, Harvard University (ref: RAN 1/N/4) no. 60; see John Harris, A Catalogue of British Drawings for Architecture, Decoration, Sculpture and Landscape Gardening 1550-1900 in American Collections (1971), 97.

Name: HARGRAVE, JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: Entrant in Wellington Testimonail competition.
Refs: Catalogue of auction of architectural drawings of John Hargrave, 1 Dec 1836, Lot 9,16

Name: BOWDEN, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: Short-listed entrant in Wellington Testimonial competition with design for a column.
Refs: NLI PF 20 (AD 1927?); Irish Architectural Drawings (exhibition catalogue,1965), 9 (no. 22).

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: Entrant in Wellington Testimonial competition with design for a triumphal arch with double tier of arches.
Refs: J. Warburton, J. Whitelaw and R. Walsh, History of the City of Dublin (1818)

Name: WILKINS, WILLIAM #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca
Nature: WW entrant in Wellington Testimonial competition; his design for Corinthian column shortlisted..
Refs: NLI PF 20 (AD 1927?), Irish Architectural Drawings (exhibition catalogue,1965), 9 (no. 22); John Leslie Foster, A Letter on the fittest style and situation for the Wellington Trophy about to be erected in Dublin (1815), 20-26.; P.F. Garnett, 'The Wellington Testimonial', Dublin Historical Record 13, No. 2 (Jun-Aug 1952), 50

Name: SMIRKE, ROBERT (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1814ca;1817-1822
Nature: RS wins Wellington Testimonial competition of 1815 with design for massive obelisk with equestrian statue at base. Lack of funds prevented design from being executed in full and equestrian statue not carried out. FS laid 18 Jun 1817 (anniversary of Battle of Waterloo). Contractors: Cockburn & Williams.
Refs: Design(?), 1817, in NLI, AD 1927 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); 3 sketch designs in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection SC93/1(1-3)] see British Architectural Library Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/LJCJFkWRVy/MAIN_CAT/920028/9 (last visited May 2009) and  Margaret Richardson, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects S (1976), 64; 2 elevations sold Sotheby's, 25 Jun 1981, lot 49 (illus.);  Freeman's Journal, 8 Feb 1817;   J. Warburton, J. Whitelaw and R. Walsh, History of the City of Dublin (1818), ii,  1106; 'Annals of Dublin' (unpaginated) in Wilson's Dublin Directory (1823); APSD II, D, 77; James Greig, ed., The Farington Diary VIII (1928), 62, 184;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 308-9; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 19-23(illus.). 

Name: COCKBURN, GILBERT [1] *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1817
Nature: Cockburn & Williams declared contractors, 1817. Estimated cost for cut stone and masonry, £15,838.
Refs: Freeman's Jourmal, 8 Feb 1817;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 308.

Name: HOGAN, JOHN VALENTINE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1858-1860
Nature: Bas relief of executed by JVH to design by John Hogan.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 308.

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1858-60
Nature: Bronze relief of Civil and Religious Liberty, finished after Hogan's death by John Valentine Hogan (son) under direction of Giovanni Benzoni.
Refs: DB 3, 1 Jun 1861, 526; John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Neoclassical Sculptor in Rome (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 110(illus.),149-50;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 22-23(illus.).

Name: BENZONI, GIOVANNI MARIA *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1859
Nature: Finishes John Hogan's relief after Hogan's death in 1858 with John Valentine Hogan.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 33;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 23.



Name: KIRK, JOSEPH ROBINSON *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1860
Nature: JRK executes bronze bas-relief of siege of Seringapatam for base of monument.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 33; watercolour sketch of 'bassorelievo…now casting in bronze' exh. RHA 1860, no. 528; chalk drawing exh. Exhibition of Fine and Ornamental Arts, Dublin, 1861, no. 424

Name: FARRELL & SONS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL
Date: 1860ca
Nature: Bronze relief of Battle of Waterloo from guns taken at Waterloo. By Thomas Farrell.
Refs: DB 1, 1 Mar 1859, 33;  W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 339;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 22(illus.), 1612;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),308-9.