Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Belgian-born sculptor, working in London from the 1860s until the 1890s. John Adrien Raemackers sculpted a bronze statue of the William Thomas, 3rd Earl of Clancarty which was unveiled in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, on 29 September 1874.(1) He exhibited marble statues or busts of the earl and countess at the Royal Academy in 1873 and 1874.(2)



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(1) IB 16, 1 Oct 1874, 264; Downpatrick Recorder, 3 Oct 1874,.
(2) RA 1873, nos. 1462 ('Countess of Clancarty'), 1546 ('Earl of Clancarty'); RA 1874, no. 1460 ('late Earl of Clancarty').


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Building: CO. GALWAY, BALLINASLOE, CLANCARTY STATUE
Date: 1874
Nature: Bronze statue of 3rd Earl of Clancarty (d.1872) unveiled 29 Sep 1874. (Statue beheaded May 1922)
Refs: IB 16, 1 Oct 1874, 264; Downpatrick Recorder, 3 Oct 1874; . information from Paula Murphy, citing excerpt from East Galway Democrat, Saturday, May 20, 1922, in War and Peace: Ballinasloe during the War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Civil War (1922–1923).
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