John Cassidy (artist)
John Cassidy (born 1 January 1860 Slane, County Meath. Ireland, UK; died 19 July 1939 Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK), Irish sculptor and painter.
Life
Cassidy was born in Littlewood Commons, Slane, County Meath in 1860. He moved to Dublin at the age of 20 to find work. In Dublin he attended art classes at night and won a scholarship to study in Milan, Italy. After two years he moved to Manchester, England where he lived for the rest of his life. He created many public sculptures, especially war memorials and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Hibernian Academy and in Manchester City Art Gallery.
Many of his works are in the Manchester district including three in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate. This includes a statue of the library's founder Enriqueta Augustina Rylands.[1] For most of his career his studio was at Lincoln Grove in Chorlton on Medlock. He died at St Joseph's Hospital in Whalley Range in 1939 and was buried in Southern Cemetery.[2]
References
- ↑ D. A. Farnie, ‘Rylands , Enriqueta Augustina (1843–1908)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 accessed 5 Jan 2016
- ↑ Hulme John Cassidy, Manchester Sculptor
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- John Cassidy, Sculptor by the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
- John Cassidy by Slane Historical Society.
- John Cassidy, Manchester Sculptor by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson.
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