Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DENMARK ST GREAT, BELVEDERE HOUSE
| Name: | WEST, ROBERT * |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DENMARK ST GREAT, BELVEDERE HOUSE |
| Date: | 1765 |
| Nature: | Design of house attributed to West by Casey. Incomplete house offered for sale, 1777, and subsequently completed by Michael Stapleton or West and Stapleton. Venus Room ceiling attr. to West by Lucey. House similar in plan and compositon to 86 St Stephen's Green, which is also attr. to West. |
| Refs: |
Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 174,175; Conor Lucey, The Stapleton collection: designs for the Irish neoclassical interior (Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2007), 43-44,108, Pl.42; information from Willie Cuuming, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Oct 2011. |
| Name: | STAPLETON, MICHAEL * |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DENMARK ST GREAT, BELVEDERE HOUSE |
| Date: | 1786 |
| Nature: | Ornamental plasterwork. (Craig attributes design of house as well as plasterwork to MS, but see under Robert West.) |
| Refs: |
Unsigned, undated drawing for Venus drawing room ceiling in NLI, Stapleton Collection, 2361, see Eugenie Carr, 'A catalogue of the Stapleton family collection of Drawings in the National Library of Ireland', unpublished MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1985, 54-56, 106-109,234 (Carr also discusses the now missing design for the Diana room ceiling); M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 230; C.P. Curran, Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1967), 81-82; Joseph McDonnell, Irish Eighteenth Century Stuccowork and its European Sources (1991), 28; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 174-5, Pls. 48,49. |