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Irish sculptor (1776–1840) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Smyth (1776–1840) was an Irish sculptor.[1][2]
The son of sculptor Edward Smyth (1749–1812),[3] John Smyth was trained at the Dublin Society's school, and worked with his father at Montgomery Street (now Foley Street) in Dublin.[4][5]
One of his first public works was a monument to John Ball in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.[6]
He assisted his father, Edward, with a number of sculptures at Parliament House (now Bank of Ireland), the King's Inns, and with decorative plaster and stonework at the Chapel Royal of Dublin Castle.[7] He also sculpted the statues of Mercury, Fidelity, and Hibernia for the pediment of the General Post Office, Dublin (c.1814).[4][8]
He repaired the equestrian statue of William III (William of Orange) in College Green after it was blown up in 1836.[4] Other pieces by John Smyth were sculpted for Dublin's Richmond Bridge (c.1816; now O'Donovan Rossa Bridge),[7] and several public buildings and churches in the capital.[9] In 1818, Smyth was commissioned to produce a bust of Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which was displayed at the Society of Artists in 1819 alongside a bust of his wife Arabella by Thomas Kirk. A number of his works are held by the National Gallery of Ireland.[10] Like his own father, several of John Smyth's own children become sculptors,[2] as did his grandchildren.[11]
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