James Cahill
Active: 1852 - 1896
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Sculptor
Works
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Marble Bust, the Rev. Dr Anderton
Marble Bust of the late Dr Smith
Five Figures executed in Caen Stone, for Ballinamore Chapel
1856
The Madonna, for the Stone Cross at Phibsborough
1856
Bust of the Rev. J. Anderton, AM
1864
Statue of the late Rev. James Fay, Guardian of St Catherine's Orphanage
1864
Sketch Model of the Statue of O'Connell
1864
Bust of Sir William Wilde
1864
Plaster Bust (Posthumous) - The Right Rev. the late Lord Bishop of Limerick, Dr Griffin
1866
Plaster Bust of the very Rev. Dr Spratt
1866
Plaster Bust, the Right Rev. Dr Whelan, R.C. Bishop of Bombay
1866
Plaster Bust, the Right Rev. Dr Whelan, R.C. Bishop of Bombay
1866
Alderman Reynolds, MP
1868
Artist listed as 'J. Cahill'.
A Bust of Isaac Butt, Esq., QC, MP
1877
Statue of O'Connell
1878
Dr. Hayden
1881
Dr Cahill
1886
Rev. F. Collier
1890
Eugene O'Curry
1890
Locations
Address 23 Marlborough Street Dublin | View on map
1852 - 1856
RHA exh. cat. 1852.
Address 55 Grafton Street Dublin | View on map
1856 - 1866
Address 12 Lower Mercer Street Dublin | View on map
1866 - 1876
Address 197 Great Brunswick Street Dublin | View on map
1877 - 1881
Ran a business at 12 Lower Mercer Street Dublin | View on map
1866 - 1876
Ran a business at 197 Great Brunswick Street Dublin | View on map
1876 - 1896
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1852
'A Group representing a Nun of the Presentation Order, instructing a Poor Orphan, being a portion of a Monument in the Gothic style, executed in Marble, for the Presentation Convent, Wexford'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1856
'The Madonna, for the Stone Cross at Phibsborough'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1862
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1864
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1866
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1868
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1877
'A Bust of Isaac Butt, Esq., QC, MP'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1878
'Statue of O'Connell '
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1881
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1886
'Dr Cahill'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1890
'Rev. F. Collier'
Exhibited at Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (and Loan Museum of Works of Art), 1872
1872
Fine Arts, Sculpture.
p. 81, no. 54:' Dr. Anderton'.
Owned by the artist and offered for sale at 63-0-0.
p. 81, no. 56:' Rev. Dr. Griffin'.
Owned by the artist and offered for sale at 63-0-0.
p. 81, no. 59:' Late Very Rev. Dr. Spratt.
Owned by the artist and offered for sale at 20-0-0.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1861 Thom's Directory
'Stone, Statuary and Marble Yards'
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1876 Thom's Directory
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1881 Thom's Directory
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1891 Thom's Directory
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1896 Thom's Directory
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1866 Thom's Directory
Listed under Sculptors Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1871 Thom's Directory
Sources
Official Catalogue of the Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures and Loan Museum of Works of Art, 1872
1872
Fine Arts, Sculpture.
p. 81, no. 54:' Dr. Anderton'.
Owned by the artist and offered for sale at 63-0-0.
p. 81, no. 56:' Rev. Dr. Griffin'.
Owned by the artist and offered for sale at 63-0-0.
p. 81, no. 59:' Late Very Rev. Dr. Spratt.
Owned by the artist and offered for sale at 20-0-0.
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Thirty-Fourth Exhibition, 1862
1862
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1852 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1852
The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1856 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1856
Citing this record
'James Cahill', 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_1202298231, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
