Jones, Francis William Doyle
Jones, Francis William Doyle (1873–1938), sculptor, was born 11 November 1873 in West Hartlepool, Co. Durham, of Irish parents. He studied sculpture in London under the tuition of Edouard Lanteri (1848–1917), the first professor of modelling at the South Kensington Art Schools (…...
Jones, John Edward
Jones, John Edward (1806–62), sculptor, was born 2 May 1806 in Dublin, son of Edward Jones (c.1775–1862), miniature-painter, of Chatham St., Dublin; his mother's name is unknown. His father was a regular exhibitor in Dublin and became secretary of the Hibernian Society of…...
Jones, Sir Thomas Alfred
Jones, Sir Thomas Alfred (1823?–1893), painter, was of unknown parentage. He was found and brought up by the philanthropic Archdale family of Kildare Place, Dublin. He began his artistic studies in 1833 in the schools of the Royal Dublin Society and entered…...
Joy, Albert Bruce-
Joy, Albert Bruce- (1842–1924), sculptor, was born in Dublin, eldest son of Dr William Bruce Joy, member of the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland; nothing is known of his mother. The Joy family was of huguenot descent. Albert was sent at nine years of age to school at Offenbach,…...
Kane, Paul
Kane, Paul (1810–71), artist, was born 3 September 1810, probably at Mallow, Co. Cork, the sixth of the four sons and four daughters of Michael Kane, from Preston, Lancashire, British army corporal, and Frances Loach, of Mallow, Co. Cork. About 1819 the family emigrated to Upper…...
Kavanagh, Joseph Malachy
Kavanagh, Joseph Malachy (1856–1918), painter, was born in Dublin; nothing is known of his family background. He first exhibited at the RHA in 1875, and in the same year was awarded the silver medal at the…...
Kean, Michael
Kean, Michael (1761–1823), miniaturist and owner of the Derby porcelain factory, was born in Dublin and educated at the Dublin Society's drawing school, established in 1746 to give instruction concentrating on figure- or life-drawing, drawing from the antique, and ornament-drawing…...
Keating, Seán
Keating, Seán (1889–1977), painter, was born in Limerick city 28 September 1889, one of three sons and three daughters of Joseph Keating, an accounts manager with a bakery firm and Anne Keating (née Hannan). He was educated initially at St Munchin's College, where he was a poor…...
Kelly, Charles Edward
Kelly, Charles Edward (1902–81), cartoonist and civil servant, was born 15 June 1902 in Dublin, the second of the seven children of Daniel Kelly, clerk, and his wife, Mary (née Darley). Educated at Synge Street CBS, Dublin, close to his…...
Kelly, Oisín
Kelly, Oisín (1915–81), sculptor, was born Austin Ernest Kelly on 17 May 1915 in James Street, Dublin, elder of two children and only son of William Kelly, schoolteacher, and Elizabeth Kelly (née McLean). He attended St James's National School, where his father was headmaster, and later…...
Kelly, Thomas
Kelly, Thomas (c.1795–1841), engraver in line and stipple, was born in Dublin (nothing is known of his parents) and was active in the Dublin Society of the Arts. In 1799 an etching titled ‘Union Street, or Ease and plenty’ was published by Williamson of Grafton St., Dublin…...
Kendrick, Matthew
Kendrick, Matthew (c.1797–1874), marine painter, was born in Dublin, the son of a customs official. His early life was tough: he worked as a seaman on a merchant ship and then on a fishing vessel in Newfoundland, an area known for its stormy seas. When he returned to…...
Kenny, Kevin John
Kenny, Kevin John (1881–1954), advertising pioneer, commercial manager and publisher, was born on 22 June 1881 at 12 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, one of eight children of Michael C. Kenny, a lithographic printer and Fenian, and Catherine Kenny (née Fleming), a book-folder (cloth…...
Kernoff, Harry
Kernoff, Harry (1900–74), painter, was born 9 January 1900 in London, son of Isaac Kernoff, furniture-maker, of Russian-Jewish extraction, and Katherine Kernoff (née Bardanelle), a member of an old Spanish-Jewish family. Kernoff was apprenticed to his father as a cabinet-maker and…...
Kidwell, William
Kidwell, William (1662–1736), sculptor, was born 27 April 1662 in Weybridge, Surrey, England, son of Robert Kidwell, a ‘gentleman’ from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. William Kidwell started his apprenticeship as a ‘joiner’ with John Bumpstead (a stone-carver in the city of London and…...
Kilburn, William
Kilburn, William (1745–1818), artist, was born 1 November 1745 in Capel St., Dublin, the only son of Samuel Kilburn, architect, and his wife, Sarah Johnston. He was apprenticed, about age 14, to Jonathan Sisson, who ran a calico- and cotton-printing factory at Lucan, and he made…...
King, Cecil
King, Cecil (1921–86), painter and collector, was born 22 February 1921 at Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, son of Henry King, businessman, of Rathdrum, and Susan King (née Crowe). He was educated at the Church of Ireland Ranelagh School, Athlone, and at Mountjoy School, Dublin (1936–9).…...
King, Richard
King, Richard (1907–74), stained-glass artist and illustrator, was born 7 July 1907 in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, elder of two sons of John J. King, sergeant in the RIC, and Margaret King (née Brereton). He was educated by the De la Salle…...
Kingston, Richard Samuel
Kingston, Richard Samuel (1922–2003), painter, was born 22 March 1922 at Leabeg, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, one of five children of (Thomas) George Kingston, farmer and horse schooler, originally from Clonakilty, Co. Cork, and his wife Elizabeth (née Berry). In the early 1930s his…...
Kinsella, Sean
Kinsella, Sean (1931–2013), chef, was born on 24 June 1931 in Drimna, near Kilrush, Co. Clare, the son of Myles Kinsella, a labourer of William Street, Dublin, and his wife Bridget (née McMahon). He spent the first two years of his life with his mother's family in Cooraclare, Co. Clare…...
Kirk, Joseph Robinson
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Kirk, Thomas
Kirk, Thomas (1781–1845), sculptor, was born in Cork in 1781, the only son of William Kirk, originally of Edinburgh before he settled in Newry, Co. Down, and his wife, Elizabeth Kirk (née Bible). The couple had moved to live in Cork just before Thomas's birth. He studied sculpture…...
Kirk, Thomas Stewart
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Kirk, William Boyton
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Laffan, William Mackay
Laffan, William Mackay (1848–1909), journalist, newspaper owner, and art connoisseur, was born 24 January 1848 at 41 Philipsburgh Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin, eldest of six children of Michael Laffan, clerk in the Custom House, and Ellen Sarah Laffan (née Fitzgibbon). William's…...