Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, of London, for biography of whom see Oxford DNB. Richardson's two works in Ireland are the effigies of John, second Marquess of Ormonde (1808-1854) in St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny (1855), and of the second Earl of Bandon in St Peter's church, Bandon, Co. Cork (1859).



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(1) Small model exhibited RA 1860, no. 999.


2 work entries listed in chronological order for RICHARDSON, EDWARD M. *#


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Building: CO. CORK, BANDON, CHURCH OF ST PETER (CI, BALLYMODAN PARISH)
Date: 1855
Nature: Recumbent effigy of 2nd Earl of Bandon.
Refs: Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 98.

Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, COACH ROAD, CATHEDRAL OF ST CANICE (CI)
Date: 1856
Nature: Tomb of 2nd Marquess of Ormonde (d.1854) showing his recumbent figure, with portrait statues of his children at the head and feet.
Refs: B 14, 4 Oct 1856, 548; J. Graves & J.G. Prim, History, architecture & antiquities of the Cathedral Church, Kilkenny (1857), 347; small model exhibited RA 1860, no. 999; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 98(illus.).