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. The date of her death is not known, but is possibly around 1856.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirk, Eliza 1812 births 1856 deaths Irish sculptors 19th-century Irish women artists Artists from Dublin (city)