William Kidwell
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Life
1662-1736; b. Weybridge, Surrey, 27 April 1662; worked as a sculptor in Ireland, 1711-35; much occupied on chimneypieces and architectural ornaments; his funerary ports. incl. a baroque monument to Sir Donal OBrien at Kilnasoolagh, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare; d. 1736, Dublin.
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Reference
Groves Dictionary of Art: The monument to William Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon (d.1724; Fiddown, Co. Kilkenny), is an early and remarkably pure example of an architectural wall tablet in the Palladian style, although that to Garret Wesley (d1728; Laracor, Co. Meath) suggests that Kidwell remained faithful to Baroque conventions [...]. [ top ]
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