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This site celebrates the life and work of sculptor John
Cassidy (1860 - 1939).
[S] = Statue life-size or larger, [M] = smaller figure,
[B] = Bust, [W] = conceptual sculpture [R]= Relief, Plaque or Tablet
This list is in no way
complete. Cassidy died unmarried, and the whereabouts of any records he
may have kept are unknown to this writer. They have probably been
destroyed, although we do have an incomplete list of works, made
(probably from memory) by Cassidy's
assistant Edith Brown.
If you can add any
entries, please
contact us. Works inside buildings are visible to the public at certain
times unless otherwise shown. PMSA
links are to the detailed records of the Public Monument and Sculpture
Association. Links under work titles are to features on our website.
[S] = Statue life-size or larger, [M] = smaller figure,
[B] = Bust, [W] = conceptual sculpture. [R] = relief, plaque or tablet

Cassidy is known to have arranged for batch production, in bronze or
ceramic, or some of his smaller works, such as The Weaver's Wife
(pictured) which is signed 'John Cassidy fecit 1906.' A bronze
version of this subject was on sale at the Manchester Art Gallery
autumn exhibition, 1906, for £40. (The matchbox is included
for scale.)
This little work is actually the seed from which grew this website.
The Ship Canal Digger (1892)
Little is known about this bust, photographed at the John Cassidy
exhibition in Slane in 2004, except that is believed to have come from
Manchester. Any suggestions?
Ernest Marriott (1913)
Female figure (1905)
Write to us at: charlie@johncassidy.org.uk
Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis
Nicholson, with the invaluable assistance of the John Cassidy
Committee,
Slane Historical Society.
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List of Cassidy's known works
1. Public viewable works
2. Publicly owned but not on open display
3. In private collections
4. Others known to have been exhibited
1. Works on public display
* viewable only during
opening hours
City of Manchester
Adrift
[W] (1907) - St Peters Square
- PMSA
Alcock and Brown Memorial [R]
(1921) - inside Town Hall PMSA
Charles Hallé [B] (1897) - *Bridgewater Hall, foyer
John Rylands
[S] (1899) - *John Rylands Library PMSA
Enriqueta
Rylands [S] (1907) - *John Rylands Library PMSA
Enriqueta Rylands [M] (1905) - *John Rylands Library
Jubilee fountain ['dolphin' on
top by J.C.] (1897) - Albert Square PMSA
King
Edward VII [large S] - Whitworth Park (1913) PMSA
Richard Peacock memorial plaque [R] -
Broadfield Church, Gorton, exterior
The Ship Canal Digger [M] - * City Art Gallery (CIS Gallery)
Sir Daniel McCabe [R] - *inside
Town Hall PMSA
Theology directing the labours of Science
and Art [W] (1898) - *John Rylands Library - PMSA
Greater Manchester,
outside Manchester City centre
Benjamin Dobson [S] (1900) outside Town
Hall, Bolton PMSA
James Dorrian [S] (1898) Queen's Park
Terrace, Bolton PMSA
John Thomasson [R] (1893) Mere Hall
gateway, Bolton. (Also plaques
of Bolton coat of arms)
John Kay memorial [multi-part memorial:
statues and plaques by JC]
(1908) - Haymarket Street, Bury
PMSA
War Memorial (1925) Eccles Church
Street PMSA
War Memorial (1921) Heaton Moor, Stockport PMSA
Lancashire Dialect Writers' Memorial
(1900) Rochdale [plaques by JC]
Swinton War Memorial Lych-Gate Salford (1922)[carvings by JC]
James Joule [B](1905) Worthington
Park, Sale PMSA
Elsewhere
Aberdeen
Duthie Park - Hygeia
[S] (1897)
Clayton-le-Moors (Lancashire)
Mercer Park - War Memorial (1920)
Colwyn Bay - War Memorial (1922)
Lower Peover (Cheshire) -
War Memorial
Skipton (Yorkshire) - War
Memorial (1922)
Stourbridge (West
Midlands) - War Memorial (1923) [figures and panels by JC] - Mary
Stevens Park PMSA
Bristol,
Colston Avenue - Edward
Colston [S] (1895)
Belfast, Northern
Ireland: Queen
Victoria
[S] (1897) Shankill Cemetery
Drogheda, Irish Republic:
*Two paintings by Cassidy in the Highlanes
Gallery.
2. Publicly owned
but not on open display
Charles Hallé [M] - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Charles Sutton [B] (192?) - inside Central Library - damaged, awaiting repair - PMSA
Henry Clarence Whaite [B] (1898) - City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Richard Roberts [B] (1914?) - National
Museum
Wales, Cardiff
Lived
1789-1864. Born near Llanymynech, North Wales, worked as engineer
in Manchester. He was at ‘Peterloo’ in 1819, was one of the founders of
the Manchester Mechanics’ Institute, was a member of the Manchester
Literary and Philosophical Society, and became a member of the Borough
Council when Manchester was incorporated in 1838. The bust presented to
National Museum Wales in 1914 by David Davies,
Llandinam (1880-1944). MP for Montgomeryshire, 1906-29
The Weaver's Wife [M] - Salford Art Gallery
Constance M. Bradley [S?] - City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Frank Bradley [S?] City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Frank Bradley, born in in
1903, was a fellow member with Cassidy of the Royal Cambrian Academy,
also showing with United Society of Artists; at Victoria and Albert
Museum; at Manchester City Art Gallery; with the Lancashire and
Cheshire Artists and abroad. Had a solo show at Salford Art Gallery in
1958; was a friend of LS Lowry and lived in Mottram-in-Longdendale
Edward John Broadfield [S?] (1914) City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Edward Broadfield
(1831-1913) was an early graduate of Owens College and went on to
become a founder of Manchester University. He was a member of the
School Board in Manchester and a governor of Manchester Grammar School.
He was active in Liberal politics. He also had strong musical interests
and was a founder of the Royal Manchester College of Music, was
associated with the Halle Orchestra and wrote music criticism for 'The
Manchester Guardian'. All this as in addition to being a most active
member of the New (ie Swedenborgian) Church in the city and a lay
preacher.
Albert Jarret [R] (1904) City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Eve [M] (1915) City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Adam [M] (1915) City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Joseph James Phelps [R] (1929) City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
J.J. Phelps (1855-1928)
was a Manchester Archaeologist and Photographer: his collection is now
in Chetham's
Library, Manchester.
William Powell Frith [B] (1909) City
Art
Gallery, Manchester
Presented by James
Gresham:
exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1909 along with bust of
Gresham. Frith was one of the most popular British painters of the
Victorian era; Friend of Gresham, who owned
specially-commissioned copies by Frith of
his famous painting Derby Day
and other works.
George Milner [B] (1900) City Art Gallery, Manchester
3. Works in Private Collections
If you have a work by Cassidy in your private collection, please let us
know the details and subject (charlie@johncassidy.org.uk): we will not
publish your name or location unless requested.
Cardinal Vaughan [B] (1888)
Herbert Alfred Vaughan
(1832 - 1903) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford from 1872 -
1892, then Archbishop of Westminster until his death. During his tenure
at Salford he established St
Bede's College in 1875.
The weaver's wife [M] (See picture, left)
Ernest Marriott [M] (1913)
Marriott was a well-known figure on the Manchester
cultural scene, a writer, artist and Librarian of the Portico Library.
Harry Houdini [B] (1914)
Rishton Conservative Club - war
memorial
Self-portrait [oil painting]
A female figure (title unknown) (1905)
3. Other Works known to have existed
(With information so far located about the subjects)
Commerce [R] (1886) South Kensington Museum exhibition
John and Sebastian Cabot [M] (1896) New Gallery, London. Also exhibited
Royal Hibernian Academy, 1899, described as a 'model for colossal
sculpture'
Ben Brierley [S] (1898) - destroyed
- PMSA
Harold H. Hilton [B?] (1904) Royal Academy, London
James Gresham [B] (1904) Royal Academy, London
Henry Hunt [R] (1910)
Lived
1773-1835. Speaker at the 'Peterloo' demonstrations in Manchester
in 1819.
Rev. J. Hirst Hollowell [B] (1911) Congregational Church House,
Manchester
Lived 1851-1909.
Congregational minister and educationalist. In 1908 he was elected
chairman of the Lancashire Congregational Union. His exertions broke
down his health, and he died of cerebral apoplexy on 24 December 1909.
A memorial bust, by John Cassidy, was unveiled at the Congregational
Church House, Manchester on 3 April 1911. (Dictionary of National
Biography, edited by Sidney Lee. Vol. 2. Adamant Media
Corporation, 2001. p.287.) The building, designed by Henry Lord and
completed in 1900, survives, but has been converted to offices,
Deansgate Court, 246 Deansgate.
'Figure of a gentleman, his arms crossed.' [M] (1913) Bronze, 19
in. high. Appeared in auction at Christie's, South Kensington, on
Wednesday, November 13,
1991 [Lot 97]. Estimated at £800 - £1200, it failed to
reach its reserve and was not sold.
Edward John Broadfield [B?] (?1914) Swedenborgian Church, Crumpsall,
Manchester [is the one now in the City Art Gallery?]
Annie Besant [R] (1925) British Empire Exhbition, London
Lived
1847-1933 Theosophical writer, campaigner for women's rights and
home rule for India.
Items with full details
uncertain:
Miss O. Walker [equestrian statuette]
Memorial to Dr. Schunck, University of Manchester
(Henry) Edward Schunck
(1820-1903) FRS was a Manchester chemist, son of
a wealthy and successful textile merchant. After studying in Germany he
returned to England and wrote many scientific papers, principally in
the
area of dyestuffs.
Memorial to Prof. Tom Jones [R] (1901?), University of Manchester
Thomas Jones (1879-1900)
was born in Carmarthenshire, and came to Manchester on qualifying as a
surgeon in 1875. He worked at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and later
at the children's hospital in Pendlebury. In 1900 he was called upon to
take charge of a Welsh Hospital in South Africa for the wounded in the
Boer War, where after three months he became 'mentally
prostrated' and died there 'in tragic circumstances' at the age of just
51. His friends collected £1000 as a memorial fund, which was
used for a bronze medallion portrait and the brass tablet in the
Medical School, and to endow a scholarship. (Source: William Brockbank:
The Honorary Medical Staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary,
1830-1948,
p.83-84)
Professor John Strachan (1909?), University of Manchester
University
Vice-Chancellors's Archive , ref VCA/6/144: John Cassidy [sculptor]:
(1) 2 Apr 1908, re. cost of a marble memorial to Professor Strachan
[professor of Greek 1885-1907]; (2) 14 Feb 1912, says removed the bust
to his studio [not identified].
Lived 1862-1907. Classical and Celtic Scholar. Professor of Greek at
Owens College from 1885. 'No good portrait of Strachan exists, and the
bronze [sic] bust in the possession of Manchester University only
faintly resembles him' - Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by
Sidney Lee. Second Supplement. Volume 3. p. 435.
Memorial to (?) Roberts, University of Manchester
May be the bust of Richard
Roberts, now in Cardiff (above)?
Memorial, in silver, to Dr. Redhead. Crucifix in teak wood, Bradford
Memorial to Alderman Healey, Heywood, Manchester
Recorded as chairman of the
Heywood Technical School Committee, 1894. Also a Unitarian.
Edward de Jong [B] in the Gallery, Heywood, Manchester
Memorial to Dr. Peter Horrocks (died 1909), Guy's Hospital, London
Samuel Laycock
Lived 1826-1893.
Lancashire
dialect
writer,
born in Marsden, near Saddleworth.
Clara M Codd [R]
Theosophical writer, and
Suffragette
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Rosa Leo Grindon
The wife of Leopold
Hartley Grindon, a notable Manchester botanist and author
Updated by Charlie
Hulme March 2010.
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