Sir Thomas Deane RHA, PRHA, VPRIAI
Born 4 June 1792
Died 2 October 1871
Active: 1806 - 1853
Country of birth and death: Ireland
Architect
Born in Cork. He was the father of the architect Sir Thomas Newenham Deane (1828–1899) who took over the practice in 1851 with his partner, Benjamin Woodward. Sir Thomas was one of the founders, in 1816, of the Cork Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts. His protégés included the sculptors John Hogan and Edward Ambrose, and the painter Samuel Forde. He went into retirement in the early 1850s and died in Dublin.
Wealth at death: £14,000 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 3 November 1871
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected to membership of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1861
RHA in 1861.
Officer of Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and Engravers
1868
PRHA in 1868.
Personal and Professional Connections
Grandmother/grandfather/grandparent to Thomas Manly Deane
C. L. Falkiner, ‘Deane, Sir Thomas Newenham (1828–1899)’, rev. Paul Larmour, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7391, accessed 16 Jan 2009]
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Frederick O'Dwyer, 'Deane, Sir Thomas (1792-1871)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7390, accessed 16 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'Sir Thomas Deane RHA, PRHA, VPRIAI', 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_1206975992, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
