Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Sculptor, cabinet-maker and waxwork museum proprietor, of London, who executed a statue of George II, which was erected on the façade of the Weavers' Hall, Dublin, in 1750.(1)



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(1) Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 12.


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COOMBE, WEAVERS' HALL
Date: 1750
Nature: Statue of George II on façade of building.
Refs: Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010),12. ( The statue is attributed to John Van Nost the younger by W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), 479,487.)