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RACKSTROW, BENJAMIN *#
- Born: 1707? Died: 1772
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)
References
(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.) |