Self portrait by Cassidy (private collection, USA)
Please feel free to contribute: our thanks are due to everyone who has helped so far.
Model for John and Sebastian Cabot (Exhibited at the New Gallery, London, 1897)
The Weaver's Wife (1906)
Write to us at:
charlie@johncassidy.org.uk
Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the invaluable assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane Historical Society.
Features on this site
Biography | War Memorials | Outdoor public works | Other worksBiography and background
The Cassidys of Slane: a genealogical exploration
John Cassidy's early life in Ireland
The Manchester School of Art
Cassidy in Manchester Faces and Places, 1898
An hour with a Sculptor. Cassidy in the Evening Chronicle, 1899.
Cassidy in Faces and Places, 1903
Two published biographies
John Cassidy at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts
The Making of a Statue - an article by John Cassidy
The Avenue, Sale
James Gresham, engineer and art collector
John Cassidy's Last Days, July 1939
War Memorials
Colwyn Bay War Memorial, North Wales
Eccles War Memorial, Greater Manchester
Heaton Moor War memorial, Stockport
Lower Peover War Memorial, Cheshire
Skipton War Memorial, North Yorkshire
Stourbridge War Memorial, Worcestershire
Conservative Club, Rishton, Lancashire
St Peter's War Memorial lych gate Swinton (Greater Manchester)
Other works
available to visit
John Pennington Thomasson and Mere Hall, Bolton
The John Kay Memorial, Bury
Adrift in Manchester - 'lost', and now found
Down in Albert Square: Cassidy in the heart of Manchester.
Professor John Strachan - University of Manchester
James Joule, Worthington Park, Sale
In Search of Ben Brierley
Bolton, a tale of two statues
Richard Peacock Memorial, Gorton
King Edward VII, Manchester
Rochdale and the Lancashire Dialect Writers Memorial
John and Enriqueta Rylands (John Rylands Library)
Theology directing the labours of Science and Art (John Rylands Library)
The Hygeia statue, Aberdeen
Queen Victoria statue, Belfast
The Edward Colston statue, Bristol
Bust of
Harry Houdini, New York, USA.
Other works and their stories
Henry Clarence Whaite: a letter from John Cassidy (1898)
A Reverie - female figure (1905-6)
The Weaver's Wife (1906)
Sir Arthur Hopkinson (1910) - bust and statuette
Ernest Marriott: Librarian, author and artist (1913)
'Catalogue of a Small Collection of Sculpture' (1914)
Leslie Stuart memorial, (1939)
Page updated by Charlie Hulme February 2012