John Kirk (of Dumfries)
Born 1832 (Presumed)
Active: 1847 - 1854
Sculptor, designer
Works
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Bust of C. Jagger, Esq.
1850 (Presumed)
'Spiritless, afflicted, fallen' - Milton's Paradise Lost
1851
Peace
1851 (Presumed)
Feeding Time
1853 (Presumed)
Locations
Address School of Design New Street Birmingham | View on map
1850 (Presumed)
Address 15 Buccleuch Street Dumfries | View on map
1847 - 1850
In 1854 located at Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire after 3 or 4 years in Birmingham between 1850-3.
Address New Street master Birmingham | View on map
1851 (Circa)
Gave his address as 'The School of Design, Birmingham'
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row (Birmingham Society of Artists), 1853
'Feeding Time'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1847 - 1853
Exhibited 5 times.
Exhibited at Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row (Birmingham Society of Artists), 1850
1850
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Exhibited at Exhibition of Modern Works of Art, at the Rooms of the Society, Temple Row (Birmingham Society of Artists), 1851
1851
Sources
Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851
1968
p. 230
Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Vol. IV Hart-Lawl
1979
Vol IV, p. 332
Citing this record
'John Kirk (of Dumfries)', 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=msib4_1202127156, accessed 18 May 2022]