Patric Park
Born 12 February 1811
Died 16 August 1855
Active: 1836 - 1855
Country of birth: Scotland
Country of death: England
Sculptor
Born in Glasgow. Park came from a family of masons and sculptors. In about 1825 he was apprenticed as a mason to John Cornell in Edinburgh. Park's skills as a carver led to employment with the architect, James Gillespie Graham from 1828. He continued to develop his skills as an architectural carver whilst also studying drawing, mathematics and French in his spare time. In 1831 Park travelled to Rome to study with Bertel Thorvaldsen where he remained for two years.
After his return to Scotland in 1833, Park worked successfully as a sculptor of portrait busts. However, several of his larger commissions ended in disaster and financial embarrassment, particularly the major commission for statues of characters from the writings of Sir Walter Scott for the Scott monument in Edinburgh (c.1840). Partly as a consequence of these difficulties he never fully settled in one city, rather moving between Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Manchester. In addition to making sculpture, Park lectured and wrote on art, he had articles published in 'The Scotsman' and the 'Art Union'. He died suddenly in Warrington.
Works
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Sir John Watson Gordon, PRSA, RA
Bust, in marble, of the late Mrs John Sands
Bust of the Right Hon. the Lady Anne Charteris
Bust, in marble, of Mrs John Griffith Frith
Bust of Master George Harrison Park
Bust of Francis Carr Beard, Esq.
Eliza Home Lizars
1898
Locations
Address 29 Clipstone Street Fitzroy Square London | View on map
1836 (Circa)
Address 8 George Street St Pancras London | View on map
1837 (Circa) - 1847 (Circa)
Address London | View on map
1839
Address 78 Queen Street Edinburgh | View on map
1848 (Circa)
Address 23 York Place Edinburgh | View on map
1849 (Circa) - 1851 (Circa)
Address 78 George Street Edinburgh | View on map
1852 (Circa)
Address 21 Sussex Place Kennington London | View on map
1852 (Circa) - 1855
Using this address at the same time as he was based in Manchester
Address 104 Church Street Manchester | View on map
1853 (Circa)
Address 104 King Street Manchester | View on map
1853 (Circa) - 1855
Address Manchester | View on map
1854 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1898
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Academy of Art: The Exhibition of Scottish Art, 1939
'Sir John Watson Gordon, PRSA, RA'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
'Bust of Master George Harrison Park'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
p.54
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1811 - 1855
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 19 times: 1839 (2 works), 1840 (5 works), 1841 (1 work), 1842 (11 works), 1843 (3 works), 1848 (3 works), 1849 (13 works), 1850 (10 works), 1851 (11 works), 1852 (9 works), 1853 (1 work), 1854 (6 works), 1855 (6 works), 1856 (5 works), 1863 (1 work), 1863 (1 work), 1880 (2 works), 1887 (1 work), 1916 (5 works) and 1926 (4 works).
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1836 - 1855
Exhibited 15 times (five times from 1851), 54 works in all (chiefly portrait busts but also a few statues and a design for a monument to Sir Walter Scott)
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1849
p. xxx
Elected RSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1851
p. xxx
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Edinburgh & Leith Post-Office Directory 1850-1851
p. 286
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
'Sculptor'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 944-50
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Scottish Art 1939, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1939
p.254 (884)
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
2010
HO107 piece 685 folio 1/29 page 51
Edinburgh & Leith Post-Office Directory 1850-1851
1850
p. 286
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
1855
p.54
The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 3, L-Q
1991
p.413, 414 and 415
Citing this record
'Patric Park', 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=msib6_1213624779, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
