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John Henry Foley
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Image:Docstatue.JPG right|frame|[[Daniel O'Connell by '''John Henry Foley''' stands at the bottom of Dublin's O'Connell Street]]
'''John Henry Foley''' (born
May 24,
1818 in
Dublin; died
August 27,
1874 in
Hampstead) was an
Irish people Irish sculpture sculptor.
At thirteen he began to study drawing and modelling at the schools of the
Royal Dublin Society, where he took several first-class prizes. In 1835 he was admitted a student in the schools of the
Royal Academy, London. He first appeared as an exhibitor in 1839 with his ''Death of Abel'' and ''Innocence'' and ''Bacchus'', exhibited in 1840, gave him immediate reputation, and the work itself was afterwards commissioned to be done in marble for the earl of Ellesmere. Lear and Cordelia and Death of Lear were exhibited in 1841. Venus rescuing Aeneas and The Houseless Wanderer in 1842, ''Prospero'' and ''Miranda'' in 1843. In 1844 Foley sent to the exhibition at
Westminster Hall his ''Youth at a Stream'', and was, with
Calder Marshall and
John Bell, chosen by the commissioners to do work in sculpture for the decoration of the
Houses of Parliament.
Statues of
John Hampden and
Selden were executed for this purpose, and received liberal praise for the propriety, dignity and proportion of their treatment. Commissions of all kinds now began to come rapidly. Fanciful works, busts, bas-reliefs, tablets and monumental statues were in great numbers undertaken and executed by him with a steady equality of worthy treatment. In. 1849 he was made an associate and in 1858 a member of the Royal Academy. Among his numerous works the following may be noticed, besides those mentioned above: ''The Mother'' ; ''Egeria'', for the Mansion House; ''The Elder Brother'' in Comus, his diploma work; ''The Muse of Painting'', the monument of
James Ward, R.A.; ''Caractacus'', for the Mansion House; ''
Helen Faucit''; ''Goldsmith and Burke'', for
Trinity College, Dublin; ''Faraday'' ; ''Reynolds'' ; ''Barry'', for Westminster Palace Yard; ''
John Stuart Mill'', for the
Thames embankment; ''O'Connell and Gough'', for Dublin; ''Clyde'', for
Glasgow; ''Clive'', for
Shrewsbury; ''Hardinge, Canning and Outram'', for
Calcutta; ''Hon. James Stewart'', for
Ceylon; the symbolical group ''Asia'', as well as the statue of the prince himself, for the
Albert Memorial in
Hyde Park, London Hyde Park; and ''
Stonewall Jackson'', in Richmond, Va. The statue of Sir
James Outram is probably his masterpiece. Foleys early fanciful works have some charming qualities; but he will probably always be best remembered for the workmanlike and manly style of his monumental portraits. He died at Hampstead on the 27th of August 1874, and on the 4th of September was buried in
St. Paul's cathedral. He left his models to the
Royal Dublin Society, his early school, and a great part of his property to the Artists Benevolent Fund.
See W. Cosmo Monkhouse, ''The Works of J. H. Foley'' (1875).
References
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Category:1818 births Foley
Category:1874 deaths Foley
Category:Irish sculptors Foley, John Henry
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