Patrick MacDowell
Patrick MacDowell RA (August 12, 1799 – December 9, 1870) was a sculptor from Belfast.[1] At about the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to a coach-builder in London and later went to lodge in the house of P F Chenu, the sculptor where he took to modelling. On the recommendation of John Constable the painter, he went to the Royal Academy Schools and he exhibited at the Academy from 1822 until his death. He was elected a Member on the 10th of February 1846 and presented as his diploma work a "Nymph."[2].
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His works include a statue of Sir William Brown in the Concert Hall of St George's Hall, Liverpool.[3] His life-size memorial, in marble, to the young Earl of Belfast (d.1853) showing the deceased on his deathbed attended by his mother, is in Belfast Castle Chapel. His last major work was the Europe allegorical group at the Albert Memorial in London.
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- ^ W G Strickland, Dictionary of Irish Artists, (1913); Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851 (1953); Homan Potterton, Irish Church Monuments, 1570-1880 (Belfast 1975).
- ^ [1] Royal Academy of Arts website
- ^ Sharples, Joseph; Pollard, Richard. Liverpool. In Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006). The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 296. ISBN 0 300 10910 5.
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- Patrick MacDowell Info & Sculpture
- "MACDOWELL, PATRICK". Dictionary of national biography, 35: pages 66–67. 1893. http://books.google.com/books?id=fyUJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA66.
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