@crawfordartgallery.bsky.socialsculpture at the Cork School of Art, he subsequently moved to Rome in 1824, living and working in the ‘Eternal City’ until 1848 when he relocated to Dublin. His health declined after suffering a stroke in 1855, the year he made Hibernia and Brian Boroimhe.
@crawfordartgallery.bsky.socialYesterday was the birthday of Irish sculptor #JohnHogan and we're celebrating with this beautiful work!
'Hibernia and Brian Boroimhe' (1855) is among the artist’s most political and imaginative works.
The sculpture depicts Hibernia, female personification of Ireland, with a young boy, Brian Boru,
