Mackintosh, John

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Dates Active in Dublin: 

1808–1840

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: unspecified
Musical instrument maker: violin
Address(es): 

6 Anglesea Street, 1808–17 [as apprentice to Thomas Perry]
1 Essex Quay, 1817–19
10 Essex Quay, 1819–24
11 Astor's Quay, 1825–34
12 Lower Ormond Quay, 1834–44

Details: 

Born in Scotland.

Apprenticed to Thomas Perry (1808–17).

According to Rice, he 'based his violins broadly on Italian models, Amati, Stradavari and Guarneri'.

Mark: large label with decorative border and 'Mackintosh' stamp (Henley).

[Details differ according to sources: Teahan lists two separate entries for McIntosh (violin maker) and Mackintosh (instrument maker) but Boydell (Card Index) asserts that these are the same person. Henley states that Mackintosh 'worked in Dublin, 1820' but the Dublin Directories give dates for his business from 1817 until his death in 1840. Teahan gives 11 Astor's Quay from 1825 to 1834 but the Dublin Directories give it from 1835 to 1836.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Produced

  • Violin. Label: 'Made by John Mackintosh, No. 1 Essex Quay, Dublin' (Rice)
  • Violin[s?]: National Museum of Ireland (Hogan)
  • Violin. Mark: 'McIntosh of Dublin' (Woodcock)

    • Published:

  • Remarks on the Construction and Material Employed in the Making of Violins [of which no copy survives] (Rice)
    • See Also: 

    Perry, Thomas
    Perry and Wilkinson

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 30)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), pp. 106, 108

    Woodcock, C., Universal Dictionary of Violin & Bow Makers: Price Guide Supplement 1971–72 (Brighton: Amati Publishing, 1972), p. ix

    Henley, William, Universal Dictionary of Violins and Bow Makers (Brighton: Amati, 1973), p. 735

    Rice, John Kenneth, 'The Life and Work of Thomas Perry' (unpublished doctoral thesis, St Patrick's College Maynooth, 1993), pp. 58, 137–39

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Mackintosh, John (1)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Mackintosh, John (2)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 26-09-2013