Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

English sculptor, for biography of whom see Oxford DNB. John Flaxman is recorded as having made three works for Ireland: the monument to the 4th Earl of Massereene in Antrim Church of Ireland church, completed in 1821; the monument to Mary Tighe in the Tighe mausoleum at Inistioge Church of Ireland church, Co. Kilkenny, executed in 1814-15, and an untraced monument to Lord or Lady Dunalley, 1821.(1) He is also said to have made the sketches for the figures of Fidelity and Commerce which were executed by JOHN SMYTH[4]  JOHN SMYTH[4] for the Bank of Ireland on College Green, Dublin, in the opening decade of the nineteenth century.(2)



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(1) Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 45-46; the Dunalleys seat, Kilboy, was in the parish of Kilmore, Co. Tipperary.
(2) Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 72-73; Patrick Lenehan, 'Edward Smyth, Dublin's Sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-1990, 72-73.


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, BANK OF IRELAND
Date: 1808a
Nature: Statues of Hibernia, Fidelity and Commerce, executed by Edward Smyth from sketches by JF. (But different account given in DPJ I, 15 Dec 1832, 193, which says that statues 'were executed by...John Smyth, that of Hibernia being modelled by his father, and the other two by the celebrated Flaxman'.)
Refs: F.G. Hall, The Bank of Ireland 1783-1946 (1949), 464-7;  Viola B.M Barrow, 'Edward Smyth', a talk read to the Old Dublin Society in 1979 and published Dublin Historical Record 52, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 72-73; Patrick Lenehan, 'Edward Smyth, Dublin's Sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-1990, 72-73;;Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 35(illus., figs. 36,37).

Building: CO. KILKENNY, INISTIOGE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (CI)
Date: 1814-15
Nature: Monument to poetess Mary Tighe (d.1810) in mausoleum in churchyard.
Refs: S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 18; Mark Bence Jones, 'Arcadia', Country Life 153, 24 May 1973, 1450-2; Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 45,67(illus.);  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 98-99(illus.).

Building: CO. ANTRIM, ANTRIM, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI)
Date: 1817?-1821
Nature: Memorial to 4th Earl of Massereene.  Commissioned in 1817?
Refs: Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments 1570-1880 (UAHS, 1975), 45,66(illus.);  A.P.W. Malcomson, The Clements Archive (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2010), 338-9.