John Henry Foley, an Irish sculptor, born in Dublin, May 24, 1818. At an early age he entered the drawing and modelling schools of the royal Dublin society, and in 1834 became a student at the royal academy in London. In 1839 he first appeared as an exhibitor there, with his models of Innocence and the "Death of Abel." Among the most popular of his imaginative works are:"Ino and the Infant Bacchus" (1840),Lear and Cordelia" and the "Death of Lear (1841), Venus rescuing Aeneas" (1842), and "Prospero relating his Adventures to Miranda (1843). For several years he has been kept busy with commissions for portrait statues, producing, among many others, those of Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith, for Dublin. One of his latest works is the colossal statue of Prince Albert, for the memorial in Hyde Park, of which also he executed the group "Asia."