Gilles Orlandi
Born 1858 (Circa)
Died 1922
Active: 1890 - 1922
Country of birth: Italy
Country of death: Ireland
Plaster figure maker, carver
Born in Lucca, Italy. There is some uncertainty about his date of birth. In the Irish Census of 1901 his date of birth was given as about 1851 but later records, including the Irish Census of 1911, state he was born about 1858. Orlandi was appointed formatore at Dublin Museum of Science and Art (later the National Museum of Ireland), probably in the late 1890s and he remained in post until his death in 1922.
There are references to casts he made of Irish High Crosses between 1898-1908 in the National Museum of Ireland. There are also references to Orlandi travelling to cast works in reports submitted by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Education for Ireland (for example the report for 1904-5, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 23, p. 425). John Turpin notes that Orlandi cast Oliver Sheppard's statue of the Pikeman in plaster during the summer of 1903 and then cast three quarter size statuettes of this work in 1904. ('Oliver Sheppard's 1798 Memorials', Irish Arts Review, 1990, p. 75 and fn. 21, p. 80, see http://irishartsreview.com/irisartsreviyear/pdf/1990/20492627.pdf.bannered.pdf)
Locations
Address 34 Mount Pleasant Square Rathmines Dublin England | View on map
1901
Address 8 Mount Pleasant Square Rathmines Dublin England | View on map
1911
Personal and Professional Connections
Worked with Oliver Sheppard
1903 - 1904
Orlandi cast Sheppard's statue of 'The Pikeman' in the summer of 1903 and then cast three quarter sized statuettes of the same work in 1904 (the bill for the latter work was dated 12 May 1904). [Based on information in Turpin, Irish Arts Review, 1990].
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census of Ireland 1901/1911
'Formatore' could not read
Occupation given in Census of Ireland 1901/1911
'Formatore' could read and write
Sources
Census of Ireland 1901/1911
2007
Name: Gilles Orlandi Gender: Male Age: 50 Birth Year: abt 1851 Relation to Head: Head Residence Date: 31 Mar 1901 Residence Place: Mount Pleasant Square, Rathmines & Rathgar East, Dublin, Ireland
Census of Ireland 1901/1911
2007
Name: Gilles Orlandi
Gender: Male
Age: 54
Birth Year: abt 1857
Relation to Head: Head
Residence Date: 2 Apr 1911
Residence Place: Mountpleasant Square, Rathmines & Rathgar East, Dublin, Ireland
Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
2011
Name: Gilles Orlandi
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1858
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1922
Death Age: 64
Registration District: Dublin South
Death Country: Ireland
Volume: 2
Page: 303
FHL Film Number: 101735
Citing this record
'Gilles Orlandi', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1383313175, accessed 27 Sep 2023]
