William Boyton Kirk ARHA, HRHA
Born 29 May 1824
Died 5 July 1900
Active: 1839 - 1900
Country of birth: Ireland
Country of death: England
Sculptor, pottery designer, curate
Born in Dublin. Second son of Thomas Kirk. He was trained at the Royal Dublin Society Schools (from 1839) and in his father’s studio. Kirk worked as the chief modeller at the Binns and Kerr factory in Worcester from 1852 where he created designs in Parian ware. In 1860 he joined the church and held livings in Birkenhead and Ashton-under-Lyme.
Wealth at death: £1,196 19s. 11d.
Probate date: 10 August 1900
Works
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Pastoral Age
1851
The Pastoral Age
1851
Design for a Monument in Bronze, to the Memory of the late Lord Fitzgibbon
1856
Lists William B. Kirk with initial A. after his name, to denote Associate of the RHA in 1856.
Tragedy
1856
Comedy
1856
Christ and Mary, ('tell me where they have laid Him')
1856
The Guardian Angel
1856
Boy and Dolphin
1856
Locations
Address Worcester | View on map
1856
Address St. Peter's Vicarage Ashton-under-Lyne | View on map
Address 22 Jervis Street Dublin | View on map
1851
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1851
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1856
'Boy and Dolphin'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1848 - 1857
Exhibited 4 times.
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected to membership of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1850
ARHA in 1850.
Sources
Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851
1968
p. 230
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Reverend William Boyton Kirk
Probate Date: 10 Aug 1900
Death Date: 5 Jul 1900
Death Place: Lancashire, England
Registry: London, England
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1851 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1851
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1856 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1856
Citing this record
'William Boyton Kirk ARHA, HRHA', 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=msib3_1202141908, accessed 18 Jan 2022]
