Miss Eliza Kirk
Born 1812
Died 1856
Active: 1856
Sculptor
Born in Dublin. One of four daughters of Thomas Kirk.
Works
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Child and Butterfly
1856
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1856
'The Sleeping Child'
Personal and Professional Connections
Daughter/son/child of Thomas Kirk
Probably Eliza, one of four daughters of Thomas Kirk, who became a sculptor.
Sources
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, 1856 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1856
Citing this record
'Miss Eliza Kirk', 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_1202833712, accessed 22 Oct 2020]
