Thomas Kirk RHA

Works

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Marble Bust of the late Francis Johnston, Esq., PRHA
1852

Marble Bust of the late Mrs Francis Johnston
1852

Locations

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Conducted a business at 22 Jervis Street Dublin | View on map
1840 - 1861
'Stone, Statuary and Marble Yards'. Thomas Kirk died in 1845, but his name and business seem to have been continued by other members of the Kirk family.

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The National Exhibition, Cork, 1852

Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1852
1835
cat. nos 385, 387

Exhibited at Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (and Loan Museum of Works of Art), 1872
1872
Fine Arts, Sculpture. p. 79, no. 12: 'The Young Champion'. Loaned by W. B. Smythe, Esq. Posthumously exhibited, as Thomas Kirk, RHA, died in 1845.

Personal and Professional Connections

Mother/father/parent of Eliza Kirk
Probably Eliza, one of four daughters of Thomas Kirk, who became a sculptor.

Mother/father/parent of Joseph Robinson Kirk

Descriptions of Practice

Listed in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1851 Thom's Directory
'Stone, Statuary and Marble Yards'

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 in Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1856 Thom's Directory
'Stone, Statuary and Marble Yards'.

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. 79, no. 12: 'The Young Champion'. Loaned by W. B. Smythe, Esq.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
L. H. Cust, ‘Kirk, Thomas (1781–1845)’, rev. John Turpin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15653, accessed 20 July 2009]

The Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy, 1852 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1852
cat. no. 385

Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1856 Thom's Directory
1856
p. 1340.

Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1851 Thom's Directory
1851
p. 1145.

Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory with the Post Office Dublin City and County Directory, for the year 1861 Thom's Directory
1861
p. 1678.