John Henry Foley - Works

Works

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His more famous works in London include:

  • 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;
  • 'Hermaphroditus or Youth at the stream (1844) was cast in bronze by J Hadfield for The Great Exhibition of 1851.
  • Helen Faucit;
  • Michael Faraday ;
  • Reynolds ;
  • Charles Barry, in Westminster Palace Yard;
  • John Stuart Mill, for the Thames embankment
  • The symbolical group Asia, as well as the statue of the prince himself, for the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park

In Ireland:

  • Goldsmith and Burke outside Trinity College, Dublin;
  • Daniel O'Connell" (O'Connell Street),
  • Sir BL Guinness (1875)
  • Field Marshal Gough (formerly in the Phoenix Park, now at Chillingham Castle);
  • Henry Grattan, College Green
  • Sir Dominic Corrigan
  • Memorial to Brigadier General John Nicholson (1862) in Lisburn Cathedral.
  • Memorial to Father Mathew, campaigner for teetotalism, in Cork (1864)

Elsewhere:

  • Clyde, for Glasgow;
  • Clive, for Shrewsbury;
  • Hermaphroditus or Youth at the stream (1844) was cast in bronze by J Hadfield for The Great Exhibition of 1851. According to a plaque which accompanies it, the statue was donated to the Bancroft Gardens in Stratford-upon-Avon by Alfred Bullard in 1932.
  • Viscount Hardinge (1858), Canning and Sir James Outram (1864'), for Calcutta;
  • Hon. James Stewart, for Ceylon;
  • Stonewall Jackson, in Richmond, Va.

The equestrian statue of Sir James Outram is probably his masterpiece. Foley's 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.

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