Eliza Kirk
{{Short description|Irish sculptor}}
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| birth_name = Elizabeth Kirk
| birth_date = 1812
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| death_date = Around 1856
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| family = Thomas Kirk (father)
Joseph Robinson Kirk (brother)
William Boyton Kirk (brother)
Thomas Stewart Kirk (nephew)
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Eliza Kirk (1812 – around 1856) was an Irish sculptor.{{cite book|last1=Minch|first1=Rebecca|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James|title=Dictionary of Irish Biography|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|chapter=in Kirk, Thomas}}
Life
Elizabeth Kirk was born in 1812 in Dublin. She was the second daughter of the sculptor Thomas Kirk. She trained with her father,Petteys, Chris, “Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900”, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 397 and was best known for her miniature portrait busts. From 1839 to 1859 she exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy. Her piece, Infant Bacchus, was exhibited in the National Exhibition in Dublin in 1853. Another work of Kirk's, which is still in the possession of the descendants of the family, is a bust of her nephew and fellow sculptor Thomas Stewart Kirk.{{cite web |title=Eliza Kirk, Sculptor - Irish Artists |url=https://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/eliza-kirk.php |website=www.libraryireland.com |accessdate=6 August 2018}} The date of her death is not known, but is possibly around 1856.{{cite web |title=Miss Eliza Kirk - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 |url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1202833712 |website=sculpture.gla.ac.uk |accessdate=6 August 2018}}
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