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Browse all works in the Marochetti Collection Search All Collections   Please Select... AFF Verdi Saint Kneale Joy Warner SheetMusic Marochetti Collins Draper Goodman Gori DFleischmann Marco Piero Gower Catalogue entry   Title: Tomb of Rev. John de la Poer Beresford, 4th Marquess of Waterford. Artist: Baron Carlo Marochetti   The Rev. John de la Poer Beresford inherited the Marquessate of Waterford from his childless brother, Henry, the 3rd Marquess, in 1859. He was the incumbent of Mullaghbrack in  County Armagh. His tomb was commissioned from Marochetti by his widow, Christiana, Marchionness of Waterford, and by her sister-in-law, Louisa Lady Waterford. Louisa Lady Waterford, who had been a childhood friend of the sculptor's wife, Camille, had previously commissioned from Marochetti a monument to her husband, Henry, 3rd Marquess for Clonegam church, and two to his uncle, John de la Poer Beresford, archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of Ireland, one of which, in Armagh Cathedral, takes the form of a full-length effigy. The other, a half-length of the same effigy is in Clonegam church. Louisa Lady Waterford wrote to a friend on 15 Jan. 1867, telling her that "Marochetti is to maker a marble tomb of poor Johnny". (Augustus Hare, The Story of Two Noble Lives, being memorials of Charotte Countess Canning and Louisa Lady Waterford, London, 1893, vol.III, p.282) Material(s): Marble Medium: Unassigned Finish: - Technique: Carved Genre: Funerary Monument Colours: Year: 1867 Height: 0 metres Width: 0 metres Depth: 0 metres Key: 2290 Acc. No.: 2290 Col. No.: 2290 Number of views: 1620

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