Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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..