Patric Park RSA 1811-1855

Patric Park R.S.A was born in Glasgow and died in Manchester on 16th August 1855. In the earlier part of his career he studied in Italy. His busts, in general are remarkable for expressing great energy and for embodying a feeling of great tenderness.

A vacancy has occurred in the list of Academicians by the premature and lamented death of their highly talented brother Academician, Patric Park, Esq., Sculptor, an event which occurred suddenly at Warrington, on the 16th August last. Mr. Park had, at the time of his decease, only attained the age of fourty-four years, and being an enthusiastic student and lover of his profession, his works, especially his Portrait Bust - long distinguished by some of the highest qualities of his noble art, seemed every succeeding year to gain in strength and refinement, so that, had life been spared, many works of still higher excellence might have been looked for from his prolific studio.

The Academy Exhibitions, for a long series of years past, and none of them more strikingly than that of 1855, when his fine Bust of the Emperor of the French occupied a place of honour, sufficiently attached the justice of this brief eulogium of the Council, and justify their sorrow, but in the death of Patric Park, the Academy has lost one of its most talented members, and the department of Sculpture, in which he more peculiarly excelled, one of its most eminent professors.

RSA Obituary, transcribed from the 1855 RSA Annual Report