Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN HOUSE

Name: OMER, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN HOUSE
Date: 1762
Nature: Mr Omer to decide fair price for digging Mr Vesey's canal, Lucan.
Refs: NA/PRO 1A/41/34 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: VESEY, AGMONDISHAM
Building: CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN HOUSE
Date: 1773-1780/81
Nature: Apparently contributed to design of house, modfying designs supplied by Chambers.
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Name: CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN HOUSE
Date: 1773-5
Nature: Designs for Agmondisham Vesey. Modified by Vesey in execution..
Refs: Christopher Hussey, 'Lucan House, Co. Dublin', Country Life 101, 31 Jan 1947, 278-81; The Connoisseur 160, Sep 1965, 2-6 ; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn, 2008), 244; John Harris, Sir William Chambers (London, 1970), 235-6, Pl. 70; Desmond Guinness & William Ryan, Irish Houses and Castles (1971), 131-8; John Redmill, 'The buildings of William Chambers in Dublin' in M. McCarthy, ed., Lord Charlemont and His Circle (2001), 161-2,164(illus.);  John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746-1813) architect to George III (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012), 104.

Name: PENROSE, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN HOUSE
Date: 1776?
Nature: Drawing for 'lobby to the bed chamber'. For Agmondisham Vesey.
Refs: Signed drawing (?dated '4.76') in NLI, AD 1593

Name: STAPLETON, MICHAEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN HOUSE
Date: 1776p
Nature: Plasterwork by MS for Agmondisham Vesey.
Refs: C. Hussey, 'Lucan House, Co. Dublin', Country Life 105, 31 Jan 1947, 278-281(illus.); Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 114-5,191-2,194,236

Name: WYATT, JAMES #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN HOUSE
Date: ?
Nature: Design for an urn in memory of Patrick Sarsfield, nearly identical to those attr. to Wyatt at Brocklesby, Stanmer Place and Mount Edgecumbe. (Frances Fergusson, unpublished thesis on JW, thinks designs for oval saloon at Lucan House are 'almost certainly' in JW's hand, whileJohn Martin Robinson accepts Wyatt's authorship of both drawings unequivocally and suggests that 'it is likely that he was generally responsible for the interior of the house and garden ornaments'.)
Refs: Drawing in NLI, Lucan House Collection, exh. The Architecture of Ireland in drawings & paintings(NGI, 1975), no. 31;  John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt: architect to George III (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 104-105, figs. 93,172.