Joseph Robinson Kirk

Joseph Robinson Kirk (1821 – 30 August 1894) was a noted Irish sculptor.

He was born in Dublin, the eldest son of Thomas Kirk. He lived in Jervis Street and studied with his father (along with two brothers and a sister who also became sculptors) and at the Dublin Society's School.

He became master of the RDS modelling school in 1852 and in 1854 he became a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

Indian Wars by Kirk

Among his best-known works are the figures of Divinity, Law, Medicine and Science on the campanile in TCD and a relief at the base of the Wellington Monument. He also executed the figure over his father's grave in Mount Jerome Cemetery. Like his father he executed a number of unique reliefs for church memorials throughout the country.^[1]

He died in 1894 and is interred in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.^[2]

References

1. ↑ Paula Murphy: Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture, Yale University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-15909-7
2. ↑ Dictionary of Irish Architects