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JOHN HENRY FOLEY (1818-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HENRY See also:FOLEY (1818-1874)  , Irish sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Dublin on the 24th of May 1818 . At thirteen he began to study See also:drawing and modelling at the See also: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 See also:Academy, See also:London . He first appeared as an exhibitor in 1839 with his " See also:Death of See also:Abel and Innocence." " Ino and Bacchus," exhibited in 184o, gave him immediate reputation, and the See also:work itself was after-wards commissioned to be done in See also:marble for the See also:earl of See also:Ellesmere . " See also:Lear and Cordelia " and " Death of Lear " were exhibited in 1841 . " See also:Venus rescuing See also:Aeneas " and " The Houseless Wanderer " in 1842, " Prospero and See also:Miranda " in 1843 . In 1844 See also:Foley sent to the See also:exhibition at See also:Westminster See also:Hall his " Youth at a Stream," and was, with See also:Calder See also:Marshall and See also:John See also:Bell, chosen by the commissioners to do work in See also:sculpture for the decoration of the Houses of See also:Parliament . Statues of John See also:Hampden and See also: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 See also:works, busts, bas-reliefs, tablets and monumental statues were in See also:great See also:numbers undertaken and executed by him with a steady equality of worthy treatment . In 1849 he was made an See also:associate and in 1858 a member of the Royal Academy . Among his numerous works the following may be noticed, besides those mentioned above:—" The See also:Mother "; " See also:Egeria," for the See also:Mansion See also:House; " The See also:Elder See also:Brother in See also:Comus," his diploma work; " The Muse of See also:Painting," the See also:monument of See also:James See also:Ward, R.A.; " See also:Caractacus," for the Mansion House; " See also:Helen See also:Faucit"; " See also:Goldsmith " and " See also:Burke," for Trinity See also:College, Dublin; " See also:Faraday "; " See also:Reynolds "; " See also:Barry," for Westminster See also:Palace Yard; " John See also:Stuart See also:Mill," for the See also:Thames See also:embankment; " O'Connell " and " See also:Gough," for Dublin ; " See also:Clyde," for See also:Glasgow; " See also:Clive," for See also:Shrewsbury; " See also:Hardinge," " See also:Canning " and " See also:Outram," for See also:Calcutta; " Hon .

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Stewart," for See also:Ceylon; the symbolical See also:group " See also:Asia," as well as the statue of the See also:prince himself, for the See also:Albert Memorial in See also:Hyde See also:Park; and " Stonewall See also:Jackson," in See also:Richmond, Va . The statue of See also:Sir James Outram is probably his masterpiece . Foley's See also:early fanciful works have some charming qualities; but he will probably always be best remembered for the workmanlike and manly See also:style of his monumental portraits . He died at See also:Hampstead on the 27th of See also:August 1874, and on the 4th of See also:September was buried in St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral . He See also:left his See also:models to the Royal Dublin Society, his early school, and a great See also:part of his See also:property to the Artists' Benevolent Fund . See W . Cosmo See also:Monkhouse, The Works of J . H . Foley (1875) .

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