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Joseph Poole Addey (1852-1922)
A student of both the RDS Drawing School and the Cork School of
Art, J. Poole Addey later became the first Head Master of the Londonderry
School of Art. In the latter half of his life he lived mostly in
Dublin, working as a tutor to students of the Dublin Metropolitan
School of Art. He often took outdoor sketching classes at Rathfarnham
Castle during the summer holidays. He also regularly accompanied
the Dublin Sketching Club outings to Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire)
and other picturesque spots, offering advice on the technical aspects
of drawing and watercolour painting. According to Theo Snoddy (op.
cit.), Addey "could not comprehend how anyone would be unable
to copy accurately, with pencil, a simple object". In the last
years of his life he moved to London where he taught the principles
of perspective to students at the Slade School of Art. A watercolour
entitled "View of Haulbowline" (1900) was purchased by
the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in 1992.
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William Ashford PRHA (1746-1824)
William Ashford's role in Irish landscape painting cannot be understated;
he enjoyed a reputation as the premier landscapist of his day, rivalled
only by the painter Thomas Roberts. Born in Birmingham in 1746,
he moved to Ireland in 1764 having been appointed to the Ordnance
Office in Dublin Castle. Within three years he was exhibiting with
the Society of Artists in William Street, continuing to do so until
1780. After short period in London (1789-1790) he exhibited at various
venues in Dublin and held a successful one-man show in the Dublin
Society's premises in February 1819. He produced a large body of
work, much of which was subsequently engraved for books and periodicals.
Elected President of the Irish Society of Artists in 1813, he was
also a founding member of the RHA and in 1823 became its first elected
President.
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George Mounsey Atkinson (c.1830-1908)
George Mounsey Atkinson was the eldest son of the marine painter
from Co. Cork, George Mounsey Wheatly Atkinson, and brother of Richard
Peterson, Robert and Sarah Atkinson, all of whom were also artists.
However, of all George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson's children, the
most outstanding artist was his namesake. George Mounsey, who for
may years was Art Examiner at South Kensington, was also according
to Walter Strickland "an ardent student of Irish archaeology",
contributing papers to the Journal of the Royal Society of Irish
Antiquaries, and also editing the Cork architect Richard Rolt Brash's
Ogham Inscribed Monuments of Gaedhil, published in London in 1879.
George Mounsey died at his home in West Brompton, London, in 1908.
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Robert Ballagh (b.1943)
Roderic Knowles has written of the artist: "[Ballagh is] recognised
for his imaginative and hyperealistic renderings of well known literary,
historical or establishment figures … He represented Ireland
at the Paris Biennale 1969 and soon became one of Ireland's most
reputed painters. In the evolution of his art, in moving from abstraction
to figuration, 'he introduced the figure first as a silhouette or
'cut-out', then as a painted figure (as in his pastiches of Goya,
Delacroix, Poussin or Ingres) heavily outlined', Cyril Barrett writes
… Other features of his work should be noted: his social commitment,
which shows itself in his humour and wit, parody and pastiche and
social comment, and his quite shameless literary and artistic allusions"
(Roderic Knowles, Contemporary Irish Art: A Documentation, Wolfhound
Press, Dublin, 1982, p.216).
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George Barret Junior (1767-1842)
Son of the celebrated Irish artist, George Barret RA (1732-1784),
George Barret Junior was, according to Strickland (pp. 32-33) "one
of the foremost water-colour painters of the English School."
He was a foundation member of the Old Watercolour Society in 1804,
a major exhibitor there and also showed at the Royal Academy. Strickland
again: "In some qualities these [his watercolours] have never
been surpassed, excelling in their effects of atmosphere and brilliant
sunlight, and full of poetic feeling".
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Mary Barton (1861-1949)
Born in Dundalk, Co. Louth, in 1861, Mary Barton was the youngest
of seven children. Having settled in London in 1895, she began her
studies at the Westminster School of Art. She exhibited only four
works at the RHA from 1900 to 1931 but was a regular exhibitor with
the WCSI, the Belfast Art Society and the Irish Fine Art Society.
She travelled extensively throughout Europe, Mexico and India. She
also taught art during a visit to Rome and whilst in England taught
small groups of women at the homes of the landed gentry.
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Rose Barton RWS (1856-1929)
One of Ireland's best-loved watercolour painters, a contemporary
of Mildred Anne Butler and Percy French (q.v.) and cousin of the
author/artist Edith Somerville, Rose Barton was born in Rochestown,
Co. Tipperary. She received drawing tuition whilst visiting Brussels
in 1875 and by the early 1880s had embarked on a career as a professional
artist. She exhibited with the RA, the RHA, the Society of Women
Artists and the RWS, of which she was made a full member in 1911.
Her work was also used to illustrate books, including Francis Gerard's
Picturesque Dublin Old and New (London, 1898). She is represented
in the NGI, the Ulster Museum in Belfast, and the Hugh Lane Municipal
Gallery of Art, Dublin.
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Ethel G. Battersby (fl. circa 1940s)
Mrs. E. G. Battersby exhibited at the RHA in 1943 from an address
in Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin.
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John Behan RHA (b.1938)
Dublin-born sculptor, he studied in Dublin, London and Oslo. He
has had major exhibitions with the Project Arts Centre (Dublin),
Kenny Art Gallery (Galway), Emmet Gallery (Dublin), and has participated
in the RHA, the Independent Artists and the Oireachtas annual exhibitions.
Represented in the collections of The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery
of Modern Art, An Chomhairle Ealai(fadda)on / The Arts Council,
Irish Life Centre (Dublin) and the Insurance Corporation of Ireland.
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Florence M. Bell (fl.1899-1923)
Florence Bell lived for many years at 62 Wellington Road, Dublin,
and exhibited extensively with the Dublin Sketching Club, the WCSI
and the RHA.
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Gabriel Beranger (1729-1817)
Gabriel Beranger was a Rotterdam-born Huguenot who came to Dublin
with his family in 1750. He exhibited at the Society of Artists
(Ireland) from 1765-1768, and in 1773 made the first of his antiquarian
tours through Ireland. William Burton Conyngham, the first President
of the Antiquarian Society, employed Beranger to make plans and
drawings of antiquities for the society. To this purpose, Beranger
made a tour through the West of Ireland in 1779, keeping an itinerary,
illustrated with sketches, which he later arranged for publication
in bound volumes. One such volume, entitled A Collection Of Drawings
Of The Principle Antique Buildings Of Ireland designed on the spot
and collected by Gabriel Beranger is housed in the Royal Irish Academy.
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Frances Biggs (fl.1940s, 1950s)
Frances Biggs was a follower of Evie Hone (1894-1955) and continued
her practice of working in stained glass. Biggs is best remembered
for the windows she designed for Gonzaga College, Dublin.
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Dorothy Blackham (1896-1975)
Born in Dublin, Dorothy Blackham (who later became Dorothy Stewart)
entered the RHA Schools during the First World War and later studied
at the Goldsmith's College in London. She exhibited regularly with
the RHA from 1916-1946, and later with the RUA, the WCSI, and the
Ulster Society of Women Artists. She is associated with the Yeats
sisters, Elizabeth and Lily, and contributed linocuts for their
Cuala Press productions. She returned to Northern Ireland in 1964
with her family where she resided at Moat Street, Donaghadee.
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Henry Blackmore
A local Dublin artist, Blackmore (who also has painted under the
surname Dunne) is best known for his technique which layers several
different images one on top of another. His work is found in many
public and private collections including the Allied Irish Bank,
Bank of Ireland, Iarnród Éireann, Smurfit Paribas
and the ICI Collection.
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Stephen Bone NEAC (1904-1958)
Son of the artist-etcher Sir Muirhead Bone, Stephen Bone studied
at the Slade School in the 1920s under Henry Tonks and later exhibitedwith
him at the NEAC. Bone also had exhibitions with the Redfern Gallery,
Lefevre Gallery, the RA and the Fine Art Society. He visited Dublin
in the 1940s and 1950s, painting there mostly street scenes. Several
examples of his work hang in the Tate Gallery, London.
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Alicia Boyle RBA (1908-1997)
Born in Bangkok of Irish parents, Alicia Boyle studied at the Byam
Shaw School of Art from 1929-1934 and travelled extensively through
Europe. She exhibited regularly with the Oireachtas, the RWS and
the IELA. A retrospective of her work was held at the Crawford Gallery,
Cork, shortly before her death.
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Charles Braithwaite ARHA (1876-1941)
Landscape painter and craftsman, Charles Braithwaite attended the
Government School of Art in Belfast. In 1909 he was appointed part
time drawing master at the Methodist College in Belfast. He remained
there for over thirty years and by the time of his death was head
of the school's art department. From 1912-1929 he showed twenty-one
works at the RHA. He was elected an Associate member of the RHA
in 1914.
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James Brenan RHA MBIA (1837-1907)
One of the most influential and respected painters of his day, James
Brenan was born in Dublin and educated variously at the School of
Art in Leinster House, the RHA School, the RDS Drawing School and
in the studios of Owen Jones and Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt in London.
He trained to be an art teacher and at the age of 20 became an assistant
master at the Birmingham School of Art. After three years of further
study and occasional teaching, he was appointed Head Master of the
Cork School of Art - a position he held from 1860 to 1889. During
his time there, he instituted lace-making classes throughout numerous
convents in Co. Cork and was instrumental in arranging the Gibson
Bequest, one of the most important acquisition funds for the Crawford
Gallery. In 1889 he was made Head Master of the Dublin Metropolitan
School of Art where one of his pupils was Sir William Orpen. Brenan
lived the rest of his days in Rathmines, Dublin, exhibiting at the
RHA up until his death.
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James Butler Brenan RHA (1825-1889)
Son of the Cork landscape painter John Brenan. He lived and worked
in Cork, exhibiting at the RHA from 1843 to 1886 almost annually.
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Henry Brocas (1762-1837)
Henry Brocas was a Dublin-based watercolourist and illustrator,
influential in the development of nineteenth century landscape painting
in Ireland. He was appointed in 1801 as Master of Landscape and
Ornament at the RDS School where he taught - among others - Sir
Frederick William Burton. Brocas contributed many engravings of
landscapes, portraits, and political caricatures to magazines and
periodicals of his day. All four of his sons also went on to become
professional artists, giving the Brocas family a long association
with the RDS School - his youngest son Henry Brocas Junior (1798-1873)
succeeding him in 1838 in his teaching post where he stayed until
retirement in 1854 - the RHA and the Society of Irish Artists (where
the third son, William, was President).
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Liz Brophy
Liz Brophy was born in Australia and studied art at East Sydney
Technical College. She moved to Portugal after winning a prestigious
Australian newspaper art award. She exhibited at Atelier EC in Colares,
and is now living in Co. Wicklow, from where she shows at several
galleries in Dublin including Magil Fine Art. Her works are in public
and private collections in the USA (including the Museum of Natural
History), Australia, Portugal, Spain, France, England and Ireland.
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Christy Brown (1932-1981)
A primitive- style painter, paralysed with cerebral palsy he drew
with his left foot. He came under contract with the Disabled Artists
Association in Liechtenstein and sent off eight paintings a year
to them. Most were reproduced on charity cards. He was a founder
member of the Disabled Artists Association, Cork. Some of his works
were exhibited at the Agnew Somerville gallery in Dublin in 1970.
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Daniele Bucciarelli (1839-1911)
An Italian artist who exhibited extensively at the RHA between 1879
and 1902, alternating from addresses in Rome and Dublin, Bucciarelli
specialised in detailed depictions of historic costumes, particularly
those of seventeenth century soldiers and buccaneers.
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William H. Burns (b.1924)
A Belfast born artist, Burns received no formal art training but
has painted regularly along the Lagan and in Connemara, Antrim and
Donegal. He has had three solo exhibitions in the gallery formerly
run by E. Walker & Co., Coleraine, and is represented in the
UTV Art Collection.
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William J. Burrows (fl. 1940s-1950s)
Burrows was a Northern artist who exhibited ten works at the RUA
between 1948-1956.
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Lady Elizabeth Butler (1846-1933)
The sister of poet Alice Meynell, Lady Butler is best known in Ireland
for her large history paintings such as 'Evicted', which is now
in the UCD collection. In 1898 The Art Annual produced a special
issue devoted to her, lavishly illustrated with photographs of her
at work in her studio in Dover Castle, and with accompanying text
written by her brother-in-law Wilfred Meynell.
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George Campbell RHA (1917-1979)
Campbell was one of Ireland's most pre-eminent painters of landscapes
and still life. Born in Arklow, Co. Wicklow, the son of the highly
respected artist Gretta Bowen, Campbell first began to paint in
the early forties in response to the bombing of Belfast. An early
friend of Gerard Dillon (q.v.), the pair painted in the Connemara
in the 1940s. In 1951 Campbell first visited Spain, and the atmosphere
of the country had such a profound effect on the artist that he
returned there on painting trips nearly every successive year. He
had his first exhibition at the Mol Gallery, Belfast, in 1944, in
conjunction with his brother Arthur, who was also a painter. In
1946 he first showed with the Waddington Galleries, Dublin, thus
beginning a long-standing and fruitful relationship with the art
dealer Victor Waddington. He also exhibited with the Ritchie Hendriks
Gallery, Dublin, the Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast and Dublin, and
at the RHA, the IELA, the Oireachtas, and the WCSI. One-man exhibitions
were also sponsored by the Northern Irish Council for the Encouragement
of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in 1949, 1952 and 1960, and by CEMA's
successor, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1966 and 1972.
He is represented in most major public and private Irish collections.
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John Henry Campbell (1757-1828)
Having completed his studies in the Royal Dublin Society's School,
John Henry Campbell established himself in Dublin as a painter of
landscapes in both oil and watercolour. He exhibited in the RHA
in 1826 and 1828. Amongst his watercolours is a 'View near Rostrevor'
in the NGI and two drawings in the British Museum. Campbell is ranked
high amongst Irish painters in watercolours from his period.
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Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo RHA (1941-1989)
Born in Dublin, Caracciolo studied in Florence under Nera Simi.
He established a practice painting landscapes of Italy and Ireland
working in oil and tempera. In 1979 he had a solo show at the King
Street Galleries in St James, London. He also exhibited in London
at the RA Summer Exhibitions and at the Royal Portrait Society.
He first exhibited in Dublin at the RHA in 1982 and in the same
year at the Solomon Gallery, Dublin. In 1983 he was elected an Associate
member of the RHA and in 1984 was elected a full member.
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Joseph William Carey RUA (1859-1937)
Carey was predominantly a watercolour painter of seascapes and landscapes,
and also did some illustrative work. The most prestigious commission
of his career was a series of thirteen scenes from Belfast history
painted on canvas for the Ulster Hall and completed in 1903. He
exhibited at the RHA from 1915-35.
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William Carron ARHA (b.1930)
Dublin born William Carron studied at the NCA under Seán
Keating and Maurice MacGonigal (q.v.). He has contributed to many
exhibitions including one-man shows and joint showings with his
wife Barbara Warren RHA. He was elected a member of the WCSI in
1977 and an Associate member of the RHA in 1996 and is represented
in both associations' permanent collections.
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Lorraine Christie (b.1967)
Born in Belfast, Lorraine Christie has been a full time artist since
leaving Chelsea Art School in 1990. Specialising in still life,
floral and figurative studies, she counts Cézanne and Sergeant
among her many influences. Lorraine Christie has had several successful
exhibitions worldwide including Florida, New York, Cape Town, Isle
of Man, WH Patterson in Mayfair, London and Jorgensen Fine Art,
Dublin in 1998.
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David Clarke (b.1920)
Son of the renowned stained glass artist Harry Clarke and painter
Margaret Clarke (née Crilly), David Clarke studied art under
Mainie Jellett. In the accompanying essay to his 1969 exhibition,
Thomas Kinsella wrote : "This new exhibition shows him confidently
at work with vital material, achieving his purpose consistently
with precision and richness … Colour is at times the essence
of his achievement, as in the harvest field paintings with those
golden yellow bales of hay…".
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Thomas Clifford (fl.1930s)
Exhibited at the RHA in the 1930s from an address in Eden Terrace,
Sandycove.
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Peter Collis RHA (b.1929)
Born in London, Peter Collis studied at Epsom College of Art and
has lived in Ireland since 1969. He has exhibited at the RA, the
RHA, Oireachtas etc. Desmond McAvock in The Irish Times, 1985 wrote:
"Although one can always recognise the scene, it is the treatment
that makes a Peter Collis landscape so instantly recognisable and
individual. Like Cezanne he is really more interested in the structure
of his scenes than in their transitory appearance, so that it is
difficult to discover their season or time. He can bind his observation
into a cohesive tightly controlled but always sensitive design."
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Helen Colvill (1856-1953)
Born at Coolock House, Co. Dublin, Helen Colvill studied art privately
under William Bingham Guinness and May Manning. A prominent member
of the WCSI, she exhibited with them for over fifty years, from
1892 onwards. She also showed at the RHA between 1920 and 1947 and
with the Royal Society of Artists and the Society of Women Artists.
Colville typically painted watercolour landscapes which Patricia
Butler has called "competent and attractive". Represented
in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
and the Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Reference: Patricia A. Butler, Three Hundred Years of Irish Watercolours
and
Drawings, London: Orion Publishing, 1997, p.178.
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Thurloe Connolly (b.1918)
Thurloe Connolly was born in Cork. He worked in an office from leaving
school until 1941, spending his spare time painting and writing
poetry. Once he began painting full time his work was exhibited
widely: in 1943 at the IELA, at the 1944 Exhibition of Subjective
Art in Dublin, and in 1945 at the first show in the Dublin Painters
Gallery. He had a one man show at Victor Waddington's Gallery in
1949, and a series of exhibitions in America including Boston and
New York, as well as in England, Holland and Sweden. A major retrospective
was held in Dublin in 1993. Initially his work was figurative and
romantic but a change of direction in 1948 showed a growing interest
in pattern and abstraction. His influences were eclectic, from Klee
and graffiti, to Oceanic and African art. His works from 1952 and
1953 were purely abstract, all titled Painting.
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William Conor RHA PRUA ROI (1881-1968)
Celebrated for his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class
life in Ulster, William Conor studied at the Government School of
Design in Belfast in the 1890s. He initially worked as a commercial
artist, before being commissioned during WWI by the British government
to produce official records of soldiers and munitions workers. He
moved to London in 1920 and there met and socialised with such artists
as Sir John Lavery and Augustus John. He exhibited at the RA in
1921 and in Dublin at the RHA from 1918-1967, showing there nearly
200 works. Conor was one of the first Academicians when the Belfast
Art Society became the Ulster Academy of Arts in 1930. He became
an Associate RHA in 1938 and a full member in 1946. Exhibitions
at the Victor Waddington Galleries were held in 1944 and 1948. In
1952 he was awarded the OBE and in 1957 he was elected President
of the RUA - an office he held until 1964. More than 50 works of
his in crayon and watercolour are in the permanent collections of
the Ulster Museum.
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Brigid Conroy
Brigid Conroy is a Wexford-based artist. She studied at NCAD, UCD
and Trinity Collge, Dublin. She had several one-woman exhibitions
throughout the 1980s. Most recently she had a solo show as part
of the Wexford Opera Festival.
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Jack Coughlin (b.1932)
Jack Coughlin has been Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts
since 1961. He has long worked on a series of etched portraits of
famous artists and literati, and has exhibited these in Ireland
at the David Hendriks Gallery and Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin.
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Sam Coulter (b.1925)
Born in Kilnock, Co. Antrim, Coulter studied under W. G. Grieves
1941-1945 and exhibited widely in Ireland and USA. He made a career
as a saxophone and clarinet player with Irish show-bands in the
1950s and 1960s.
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Rod Coyne (b.1967)
Rod Coyne was born in Dublin in 1967. He attended the Dun Laoghaire
School of Art 1986-87 and the Crawford College of Art in Cork, 1987-1990.
He spent the rest of the 1990s painting predominantly in Germany
where he held four solo exhibitions. He has participated in several
group exhibitions of young Irish artists and is represented in the
publication Millennial Art Collection.
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James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1878-1944)
Virtually self-taught as an artist, Humbert Craig earned popular
renown for his impressionistic scenes of Donegal, Antrim, and the
Connemara. His works first appeared at the RHA in 1915, and he was
a constant contributor there up until his death, showing 130 works
in all. In 1925 he became an associate of the RHA and in 1928 a
full member. He was also an Academician of the Ulster Academy of
Arts. Overseas he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1928
and at the RA in 1935 and 1937. His work has been widely reproduced
in the form of lithographic posters and calendars.
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Martin Cregan PRHA (1788-1870)
Martin Cregan was born in Co. Meath. He won medals for drawing in
1806 and 1807 at the Dublin Society School, was a pupil of Sir Martin
Arthur Shee, and a friend of Constable, Hayter and Landseer. He
exhibited at the RA in 1812, was a founder member of the RHA, exhibited
at their at the first exhibition in 1826 and regularly thereafter
until 1859. He served as President of the RHA 1832-1856.
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David Crone (b.1937)
Referred to by Dr S. B. Kennedy as "one the most vital artists
working in Northern Ireland today" (exhibition catalogue, Fenderesky
Gallery, Queen's University, Belfast, 1991, p.4), David Crone has
been lecturing in fine art at the Belfast College of Art since 1985.
He has been included in many prestigious, travelling group shows
including The Delighted Eye (1981) and Divisions Crossroads Turns
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and has had many one-man shows with the Northern Ireland Arts Council,
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Kathleen E. A. Crozier (1895-1985)
Born Kathleen Pearson, she exhibited with the Belfast Art Society
in the 1920s, and at the Ulster Academy of Arts during the 1930s
and '40s. She also contributed to the RHA 1943-1947, and participated
in 'Belfast Commentary' at the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery in
1945 and the 1946 Oireachtas Art Exhibition.
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Clare Cryan
Clare Cryan was born in Dublin and studied painting at the NCA in
Dublin and the Belfast College of Art. She was appointed Master
of the Preliminary School of the NCA in 1965 but later resigned
to develop her own work, and continues to teach privately, working
with Kenneth Webb (q.v.) in the Irish School of Landscape Painting.
In 1971 she founded the Blue Door Studio and many of her pupils
have made an impact on the Irish art world. Clare Cryan has exhibited
at the RHA, RUA, National Watercolour Society London, and The Royal
Institute of Painters in Watercolour. In 1990 President Hillery
presented one of her pictures as a state gift to Queen Beatrix of
the Netherlands.
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Michael Cullen (b.1946)
Born in Wicklow, Michael Cullen studied at NCAD and at the Central
School of Art and Design in London. He has had numerous solo exhibitions,
most recently at the Vangard Gallery, Cork, and the Taylor Galleries,
Dublin. He was one of Seán McSweeney's selected painters
at the Boyle Arts Festival earlier this year and was the Sunday
Independent's Painter of the Year in 1998. His work is in the collection
of the NGI.
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Stephen Cullen (b.1959)
Stephen Cullen exhibits annually with the RHA as well at the Blackrock
Gallery, Dublin. His work is included in the Bank of Ireland art
collection.
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Peter Curling (b.1955)
Born in Waterford in 1955, Curling spent his early years in Co.
Clare before moving to England. His interest in art was stimulated
by his parents' own interest - his father having worked in the Abbey
Theatre and his mother having been involved with selling sporting
paintings and prints. In England Curling won an art scholarship
to Millfield, after which he went to Italy to study. After a couple
of years study abroad he returned briefly to England where he worked
under John Skeaping RA. Curling returned to Ireland in 1975 and
has lived ever since in Co. Tipperary where he and his wife Louise
(who is also an artist) run a horse stud farm.
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James Francis Danby (1816-1875)
Born in Bristol, the eldest son of Francis Danby ARA who was from
Killinick, Co. Wexford. He exhibited at the RA from 1842 to his
death, and also occasionally at the RHA. He lived in London but
apparently visited Ireland frequently as several of his paintings
are of Irish landscapes. He is particularly noted for his depictions
of sunset.
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Thomas Danby RWS RHA (1818-1886)
Son and pupil of the better-known romantic artist Francis Danby,
Thomas Danby was a prolific watercolourist and was elected a full
member of the (Old) Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1870.
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Colin Davidson (b.1968)
Belfast-born artist Colin Davidson graduated with First Class Honours
from the Faculty of Fine Art and Design at the University of Ulster
in 1991. He has had numerous solo shows, specifically with the Tom
Caldwell Galleries in Belfast and the Solomon Gallery in Dublin.
He has been awarded the Windsor & Newton Gold Award, London,
in 1994, and the RUA Silver Medal in 1997.
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Dorothy Day (fl.1940s, 1950s)
Dorothy Day exhibited at the RHA in 1939, 1941, 1942 and 1952.
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John Day (fl.1850s-1880s)
Primarily a landscape painter, John Day found reasonable success
and patronage in Cork city. He was regular noticed in the local
newspapers; for instance, in April 1857 students of the Crawford
School of Art were enjoined to visit the studio of John Day where
"many clever landscapes" - including one destined for
the Glasgow Art Union - were on display (see Peter Murray, Illustrated
Summary Catalogue of the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, 1992,
p.237). In 1882 his painting 'Carragaline River' was loaned by Alderman
William Hegarty to the Irish Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures
in Cork (catalogue no. 1495). Hegarty seems to have been a regular
patron of Day's work; a record appears in the Cork Examiner of 14
June 1862 of him purchasing a large scene of Irish tinkers in a
glade on Lord Shannon's demesne at Castlemartyre.
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Philip James Deegan (fl.1930s)
Mainly a flower painter, Philip Deegan exhibited five works at the
RHA in 1930 and another five at the Oireachtas exhibition in 1932.
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Edward Delaney RHA (b.1930)
Born in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Edward Delaney is one of Ireland's
foremost sculptors. Among his best known public works are the Thomas
Davis monument in College Green, Dublin, Theobald Wolfe Tone and
The Family in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin.
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Edward Montgomery O'Rourke Dickey (1894-1977)
Exhibited with the Belfast Art Society in the 1920s and at the Oireachtas
Art Exhibition in 1920.
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Gerard Dillon (1916-1971)
Self-trained as an artist, Belfast-man Gerard Dillon worked as a
house-painter and decorator in his early years, though an interest
in the arts was apparent even as a teenager. In 1939 he and a friend
went on a cycling holiday in the Connemara, an event which his biographer
James White has since labelled "the most important development
of his life" (Gerard Dillon: An Illustrated Biography, Wolfhound
Press, Dublin, 1994). The imagery of the land, criss-crossed as
it was by stone walls and dotted with cottages, and of the people
in their brightly coloured home-spun clothes, remained with him
for life and reappeared in many of his works. Dillon's first solo
exhibition was held in 1942 in the Country Shop on St Stephen's
Green, Dublin, and was opened by the champion of modern art in Ireland,
Mainie Jellet. In 1943 Dillon showed his first work at the RHA.
During the 1940s and '50s he became the rising star of the Irish
avant-garde, his works widely exhibited and written about. His career
has commonly been characterised as a succession of different phases,
from his early naïve landscapes, to his final dream-scapes,
populated by harlequins. Dillon died of a stroke in 1971. A retrospective
was held the following year at the Ulster Museum and later at the
Hugh Lane Gallery of Art, Dublin.
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Patrick Dolan (1926-1980)
Irish-born abstract painter, he studied at the Architectural Association
in London in the 1950s and a was friend and associate of Francis
Bacon's. He later became a senior lecturer at the Cardiff School
of Art in Wales, and had several solo and joint exhibitions at Gallery
67, Rawlinsky Gallery, and the Belgrave Gallery, London. In the
1960s he joined the artists' community in St. Ives, Cornwall, and
remained there until his death.
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J. P. Donleavy (b.1926)
Born in New York City of Irish parents, James Patrick Donleavy served
in the US Navy during World War II. He came to Dublin after the
war on the GI Bill of Rights programme and studied macrobiology
at Trinity College. Among his many friends were writers Patrick
Kavanagh and Brendan Behan and painter Ralph Cusack. Attracting
controversy as a painter he exhibited in the Stephen's Green Gallery
in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Jack Yeats commented favourably
on his work, especially on his oil painting technique. It was as
a writer that he was to find international fame and his first novel,
The Ginger Man (1955) was hailed as a comic masterpiece. Among his
other works are A Singular Man (1963), The Beastly Beatitudes of
Balthazar B (1968), The Onion Eaters (1971), Leila (1983), Are You
Listening, Rabbi Low? (1987) and That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman
(1990). He became an Irish citizen in 1967 and lives in Mullingar,
Co. Westmeath where he writes, paints and farms. While writing became
his career his painting took a back seat but he has returned to
it many times over the past fifty years, often providing illustrations
for his books or for articles written in magazines such as The New
Yorker. He exhibited at the Tom Caldwell Gallery in the 1980s and
had a joint exhibition in 1990 in London with his daughter, Karen,
a talented painter and highly successful ceramicist and potter now
living in the USA.
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Mary Donnelly (b.1964)
Previously held solo exhibitions with the Arts Council and Hallward
Gallery, Dublin. Included in many group exhibitions, most notably
with the Hendriks Gallery, Taylor Galleries, and the Temple Bar
Galley (where she was based for six years in the attached studio).
Her work is represented in the collections of Pat and Antoinette
Murphy, and the Bank of Ireland, and was included in the 1990 collaborative
project 'The Great Book of Ireland'.
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Phoebe Donovan (1902-1975)
Phoebe Donovan was one of Victor Waddington's stable of artists,
showing there regularly in both group and solo shows. She exhibited
widely in Dublin with the RHA, the WCSI, IELA, the Oireachtas exhibitions,
and annually from 1960-1968 with the Dublin Painters group. She
is represented in the National Self-Portrait Collection in Limerick,
and a gallery attached to her family home 'Ballymore' in Camolin,
Co. Wexford, has a permanent display of her work.
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John Doyle (1797-1868)
Born in Dublin into a family of Wexford origins, John Doyle studied
at the RDS Drawing School, receiving a medal there at the tender
age of eight. He was also a private pupil of the Dublin based Italian
artist Gaspare Gabrielli and the Irish miniaturist John Comerford.
At an early age he specialised in painting horses. In 1921 he moved
to London where he began a long-running series of political cartoons
under the pseudonym 'HB', using a detailed, realistic form of drawing
quite different from other cartoonists of the day. He maintained
links with Ireland; his third son, Henry Edward Doyle RHA (1827-1892)
who was later to become Director of the National Gallery of Ireland,
was born in Dublin.
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Mary Duncan (1885-1964)
A close friend of Estella Solomons HRHA, whose portrait she painted
(now in TCD) and with whom she exhibited at the Arlington Gallery
in London in 1935, Mary Duncan was an English-born artist who lived
in Dublin for about 12 years. Trained at the Bromley School of Art,
the Slade, and in Paris, her work often revealed a sympathy for
rural people and the urban poor.
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Ronald Ossory Dunlop NEAC RA RBA (1894-1973)
Ronald Ossory Dunlop was born in Dublin in 1894. His mother, Eleanor
Dunlop (née Fitzpatrick) was a watercolour artist and his
father, Daniel Nicol Dunlop (1868-1935), was a great friend of W.
B. Yeats, James Stephens and George Russell, or 'Æ'. Together
Yeats, 'Æ' and Daniel Nicol Dunlop published The Irish Theosophist
from the home of Eleanor's father, the Shakespearean scholar R.H.
Fitzpatrick. Thus the young Ronald Ossory grew up surrounded by
the seminal figures of the Irish Literary Renaissance, in an atmosphere
that smacked peculiarly of mysticism and spiritualism. The Dunlop
family moved to New York in 1899, then London three years later.
From here, they made the annual pilgrimage back to Dublin during
Horse Show week, with Dunlop's father returning to London clutching
two or three more 'Æ' canvasses each time. Dunlop trained
in art in London, associating with a group of young artists who
all exhibited at the Hurricane Lamp Gallery in Chelsea. In 1928
the group published a journal called Emotionism, with Dunlop supplying
a rather vague manifesto ("Art is the expression of the essence
of life"), a poem, and an illustration of one of his paintings,
'The Fish Market'. Dunlop soon expanded his exhibiting circle, showing
with the NEAC and later with the RA and the RBA. He also maintained
his Irish connections, returning periodically to paint in Dublin
and submitting a number of works to the RHA in the 1940s and 1950s.
In addition to painting, he was a prolific author; his books include
Modern Still Life Painting in Oil (London 1938), Understanding Pictures
(London 1948), Painting for Pleasure (London 1951), Sketching for
Pleasure (London 1952), How to Paint for Pleasure (New York 1953),
Ancient Arundel (London 1953), Landscape Painting: Ma Yuan to Picasso
(London 1954), and finally, an autobiography: Struggling with Paint:
Some Reminiscences (London, 1956). Examples of his paintings can
be seen in the Crawford Gallery, Cork, and the Tate Gallery and
National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Joe Dunne (b.1957)
Born in Dublin in 1957, Joe Dunne was awarded a diploma in Design
at NCAD. He has had solo exhibitions throughout Europe since the
early 1980s and has exhibited at the RHA Annual Exhibition since
1982. He was awarded a Silver Medal in 1986 and won the highly acclaimed
Niccolo Caracciola RHA Award in 1993 and 2001. His most recent solo
exhibition at the Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, although not a retrospective,
did contain works which represented the artist's concerns since
his last solo exhibition in 1990. In the artist's own words, his
paintings "often have a domestic, everyday life starting point"
with which, using the elements of composition, he tries to establish
"a pictorial harmony".
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Leo Earley (1925-2001)
Born 28th January 1925, Leo Earley was a graduate of NCAD. On completion
of his studies, he joined his great-uncle in the family's stained
glass business, 'Earley Studios' which was located on Camden Street.
Earley was one time President of the Dublin Sketching Club and exhibited
frequently at the RHA and the Oriel Gallery, Dublin. Examples of
his stained glass can be seen at St Brigid's Cabinteely, Mount Argus
Harold's Cross and the Church of St Therése, Mount Merrion.
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Charlie Easterfield (b.1947)
Charlie Easterfield works primarily as a sculptor in Co. Leitrim.
Her work was included in the 2000 RHA exhibition.
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James English (b.1946)
Born in Naul, Co. Dublin, James English worked in horse racing before
studying at the NCAD, Dublin. He exhibits most years at the RHA,
and his works are in the collections of former President Mary Robinson,
Allied Irish Banks, National Irish Bank, Jefferson Smurfit Group,
Office of Public Works (including Leinster House) and The National
Library.
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