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Famous People contd.; John Hogan; Neo-Classical sculptor   John Hogan, Neo-Classical Sculptor John Hogan was born in Tallow, Co. Waterford in 1800. His mother was of the upper class ascendancy background, but had lost both her social status, and fortune of £1,000 when she fell madly in love and eloped with John Hogan Snr - who had been employed by her cousin to build outoffices! The family moved to Cork City in 1801, but John Hogan was returned to Tallow aged 8 yrs to attend a private school.He is said to have excelled at history and mathematics - subjects considered essential to architecture in the 19th century. However, he had little aptitude for Latin, a subject deemed necessary for a career in Law which would have given him re-entry into the Society life lost to his mother! Nevertheless on his return home he was apprenticed to Micheal Foote, an attorney with offices in Patrick Street. Here he spent every moment he could snatch sketching architectural fancies and carving figures from wood.

When Thomas Deane was embarking on the Cork City Gaol, John Hogan's father was his foreman. The young John Hogan was asked to develop the sketch drawings from the plans of architect William Robertson of Kilkenny; he completed his task quickly and to great satisfaction, left Foote's office and became apprenticed to Deane where he was employed drawing plans, making architectural models and carving balusters, capital and ornamental figures. Later, Deane and Hogan fell out - Hogan claiming that Deane engineered the row to avoid keeping his promise to send him to Italy to learn marble carving! By this time Hogan had come to public notice through exhibitions. William Paulet Carey an eminent art critic then became his chief patron, raised the money to send him to Italy and there he developed his sculpturing talent. He made 5 return visits to Ireland, before finally returning to settle in Dublin in 1849. He died in 1858. John Hogan is recognised as Ireland's greatest neo-classical sculptor. Some of his work can be viewed in Cork City in the Crawford Art Gallery.

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