Life
1743-1821 [vars. 1842, 1823]; articled to Sir William Chambers; published
continuation of Campbell’s Vitruvius Brittanicus [sic], with
John Woolfe (1767-71); gold medal for architecture, Royal Academy, 1768;
designed Dublin buildings incl. Screen Wall of House of Parliament, 1785;
Four Courts, 1786; King’s Inn’s (1795-59); original member of
RIA; a life published Thomas J. Mulvany (1846) was prepared from papers
collected by his son and namesake (1773-1851). DNB DIB BREF
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Works
[Thomas J. Mulvany], The Life of James Gandon, Esq., M.R.I.A., F.R.S.,
etc., architect, with original notices of contemporary artists and fragments
of essays from materials collected and arranged by his son, James Gandon
/ prepared for publication by Thomas J. Mulvany (Dublin: Hodges &
Smith [printed at Dublin UP], 1846), xvi, 297pp., illus. & port.;
and Do., [facs. rep.], with index by Maurice Craig (London: Cornmarket
Press 1969), (16), v-xvi, 297,(34)p., port.; 23cm.
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- Constantia Maxwell, The Stranger in Ireland (1958), ‘James Gandon, An English Architect 1781-1823’, pp.179-88;
- Edward McPartland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (Zwemmer; 1985);
- Hugo Duffy, James Gandon and His Times (Kinsale: Gandon [q.d.]), 288pp. [bibl. pp. 279-281];
- Steve McDonogh, A Visitor’s Guide to the Dingle Peninsula (Brandon).
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Notes
Brian de Breffny, ed., Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia
(London: Thames & Hudson 1983), writes: continued Franco-Roman Neo-Classicism
of Chambers; extended Campbell’s Vitruvius Brittanicus with
John Woolfe (vols. in 1767 and 1771); invited by Rt. Hon. John Beresford
to settle in Dublin, refusing At. Petersburg; Custom House (1781), embellished
by Edward Smyth; Four Courts (1786); other works, King’s Inns; Carlisle
(O’Connell) Bridge; adds. to Rotunda, and mansion at Emo, Co. Laois,
for Lord Portarlington.
James Mulvany’s Life of James Gandon [1846], containing
Gandon’s essay on the progress of architecture, 243ff. was reviewed
by Samuel Ferguson in Dublin University Magazine, clxxiv (1847),
pp.693-708. (See cited W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (1984).
Nathaniel Hone's engraved portrait of Gandon shows the subject half-length, seated, with view on Custom House from the south-west; rep. in ‘James Gandon, An English Architect 1781-1823’, in Constantia Maxwell, The Stranger in Ireland (1958), p.179-88.
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