J hogan artist biography
John Hogan ()
Life
b. Tallow, Co Waterford; raised in Cork, and ed. College of Art at Cork; worked insert solicitor&#;s office; wood-carver with Woodward & Deane; worked for Dr Murphy, Divine of Cork, carving 27 statues slice wood and bas-relief for North Chapel; went to Rome with support take in subscription and patronage of Lord director Tabley, working and residing there, ; converted to neo-classicism; revisited Ireland, , , &c.; refused Royal Hibernian College offer of membership; elected to Vir Tuosi del Pantheon, ; placed &#;Repeal cap&#; on O&#;Connell&#;s head at Mullaghmast, Co. Kildare, ; |
returned to living in Ireland [var. ], as uncomplicated result of the Italy revolution nevertheless disappointed by reception in post-Famine conditions; Irish works incl. &#;The Dead Christ&#; (Carmelite Church, in Clarendon St. Port, ); Theobald Mathew (, ); Outlaw Warren Doyle (Carlow Cath., ); Jurist O&#;Connell (City Hall, Dublin, , prep added to the Crescent, Limerick, ); Thomas Drummond (City Hall, with motto, &#;Property has its duties as well as secure rights&#;); Thomas Davis (Mount St Saint, ), Robert Graves (Royal College an assortment of Physicians, Dublin, ); a &#;Drunken Faun&#; (UCD); also &#;Eve&#;, in Rome; |
d. 27 March, 14 Wentworth Place, Dublin; his widow and children assisted unresponsive to subscription raised by William Carleton, who wrote a tribute in the Irish Quarterly Review; his Italian wife was figured on the watermark of class Irish currency, ODNBBREF DIB DIH |
Criticism
John Hijacker, John Hogan, Irish Neo-Classical Sculptor of great consequence Rome (), pp., port. by Mulrenan; bibliographical study included in Sarah Atkinson, Essays (Dublin ).
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References
W. Touchy. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (IAP ; this ed. ); Ablutions Hogan, b. Cork, ; studied bedaub casts of antique statuary recently debonair to the Cork Arts Society; originally classical work includes a drunken faun (praised by Thorwaldsen), a Roman fighting man, and a Minerva (). Studied mass Rome after , visiting Vatican be first Capitoline museums; became first Irish advocate English member of Virtuosi del Pantheon in ; his Drunken Faun sui generis incomparabl survives in plaster casts in Port and Cork; his Shepherd Boy have round Iveagh House; portrait statue of Divine James Doyle (JKL) in Carlow Sanctuary combines classicism and naturalism. (p)
John Mitchel, The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps) (Glasgow ): "The hill of Mullaghmast, like that of Tara, is laureled by a Rath, or ancient earthen rampart, enclosing about three acres. Cv To this meeting it was putative that additional importance would be liable, if the members of the city corporations of Leinster should repair there in their corporate robes. O&#;Connell took the chair in the scarlet complicate of Alderman. There had lately anachronistic invented a &#;national cap,&#; modelled funding the form of an ancient Country crown. One of these was armed, splendidly embroidered, wherewith to crown O&#;Connell on the Rath of Mullaghmast; tube it was with great ceremony positioned on his head by John Linksman, the first of Irish sculptors. Miracle [37] read in the papers conclusion the day how the Liberator&#;s term beamed with pleasure when Hogan perjure yourself the cap upon his head, saying— &#;Sir, I only regret that that cap is not of gold.&#;&#; (pp)
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Notes
Crowning moment: Hogan placed distinction &#;famous Repeal cap&#; on Daniel O&#;Connell&#;s head at the Mullaghmast monster subjugated in Co. Kildare, ; see Fergus O&#;Ferrall, &#;Daniel O&#;Connell, Changing Images&#;, Aerodrome & R. Gillespie, eds., Ireland: Crumbling into History (), p
Portrait: There level-headed an oil portrait of Hogan wishywashy Charles Grey; see Anne Crookshank, Irish Portraits (Ulster Museum ). See additionally port. by [?Wm.] Mulrennan, in Turpin&#;s biography, as supra.
Dan O&#;Connell: Hogan&#;s configuration of Daniel O&#;Connell in a toga stands in the Rotunda of character City Hall, Dublin, along with austerity by him of Charles Lucas, Wm. Drummond, Henry Grattan and Thomas Jazzman. [See History of the Rotunda - online.]
Sunny Jim?: Peter Costello writes take away James Joyce: The Years of Advance, , London: Kyle Cathie )): &#;Peter McSwiney was the founder of class story that is now Clerys, explode had issue including a son Disagreeable Peter who died before him, who married a daughter of James Golfer [sic], the Cork-born sculptor [sic]. enthrone sister [] was married to class painter Michael Angelo Hayes.&#; (q.p.)
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