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Irish artists past and present


Please note that this is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of Irish artists - rather, it is a work in progress, mainly comprising some of the lesser known or more obscure but interesting artists whose work has sold through our rooms, with additions and updates occasionally made. A good deal of the information has come from two particularly useful reference works:


  • Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century, Merlin Publishing, Dublin, 2002 (second, revised edition), and
  • Walter Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists, Irish University Press, 1969 (2 volumes, facsimile reprint of the original 1913 edition).
Further information is available on many of the artists listed below, and Whyte's welcome any comments and/or corrections from readers. For a list of abbreviations used, please click here

 

     
A - E F - L M - R S - Z
Addey,
Joseph Poole
Ashford,
William
Atkinson,
George Mounsey
Ballagh,
Robert
Barret Junior,
George
Barton,
Mary
Barton,
Rose
Battersby,
Ethel G.
Behan,
John
Bell,
Florence M.
Beranger,
Gabriel
Biggs,
Frances
Blackham,
Dorothy
Blackmore,
Henry
Bone,
Stephen
Boyle,
Alicia
Braithwaite,
Charles
Brenan,
James
Brenan,
James Butler
Brocas,
Henry
Brophy,
Liz
Brown,
Christy
Bucciarelli,
Daniele
Burns,
William H.
Burrows,
William J.
Butler,
Lady Elizabeth
Campbell,
George
Campbell,
John Henry
Caracciolo,
Niccolo d'Ardia
Carey,
Joseph William
Carron,
William
Christie,
Lorraine
Clarke,
David
Clifford,
Thomas
Collis,
Peter
Colvill,
Helen
Connolly,
Thurloe
Conor,
William
Conroy,
Brigid
Coughlin,
Jack
Coulter,
Sam
Coyne,
Rod
Craig,
James Humbert
Cregan,
Martin
Crone,
David
Crozier,
Kathleen E. A.
Cryan,
Clare
Cullen,
Michael
Cullen,
Stephen
Curling,
Peter
Danby,
James Francis
Danby,
Thomas
Davidson,
Colin
Day,
Dorothy
Day,
John
Deegan,
Philip James
Delaney,
Edward
Dickey,
Edward Montgomery O'Rourke
Dillon,
Gerard
Dolan,
Patrick
Donleavy,
J P
Donnelly,
Mary
Donovan,
Phoebe
Doyle,
John
Duncan,
Mary
Dunlop,
Ronald Ossory
Dunne,
Joe
Earley,
Leo
Easterfield,
Charlie
English,
James
Donnelly,
Anne
Croft,
Richard John
Donovan,
Jack
Bingham,
James
Breakey,
John
Cullen,
Michael
Doran,
Paul
Eccles,
Ross
Bent,
Medora Heather
Clater,
Thomas
Egan,
Martin
Davidson,
Roland
Brennan,
Cecily
Egestorff,
Paul
Brown,
Deborah
Cullen,
Charles
Barry,
Moyra
Douglas,
Jessie Ogsten
Bolay,
Veronica
Duncan,
Mary
Dennehy,
Douglas Manson
Armstrong,
Robert
Castle,
Barry
Drew,
Pamela, (Lady Rathdonnell)
Armfield,
George
Carr,
Tom
Cooke,
Barrie
Allen,
Harry Epworth
Egan,
Phelim
Coyle,
Rosemary
Devlin,
John
Copperwhite,
Diana
Costelloe,
Robert Emmet
Bell,
Trevor
Faulkner,
John
Faulkner,
Patricia
Feld,
Joy
Fewer,
Angela
Finnin,
Martin
Fitzharris,
Mike
Flack,
James Hall
Flaherty,
Michael
Flanagan,
Fidelma
Flanagan,
Terence P.
Forty,
Frank
Francavillia,
Giuseppe
French,
Percy
Freyer,
Katherine Mary
Friers,
Julian
Funge,
Paul
Gaffney,
Aidan
Gale,
Martin
Gallery,
Dennis
Ganley,
Rose Brigid
Garrow,
Simon
Garvey,
Brian
Gault,
George
Gayer,
Terence
Gemmell,
Michael
Geoghegan,
Trevor
Gillard,
William
Gore,
William Crampton
Goulet,
Yann Renard
Gracey,
Theodore James
Grattan,
William
Grey,
Alfred
Grey,
Gregor
Gribbon,
Charles Edward
Grierson,
Charles McIver
Griffin,
Bill
Grogan,
Anthony
Guinness,
May
Guven,
Paul E.
Haden,
Sir Francis Seymour
Hanratty,
Alice
Harbison,
Eleanor
Hartland,
Henry Albert
Haverty,
Joseph Patrick
Hayes,
Claude
Hayes,
Edwin
Hayes,
Ernest Columba
Hayward,
Phyllis
Healy,
Henry
Hennessy,
Patrick
Hennessy,
William John
Henry,
Grace
Henry,
Olive
Henry,
Paul
Henry,
John Levin
Hickey,
Desmond
Hickey,
Patrick
Hill,
Rowland
Hincks,
William
Hoek,
Ries
Holohan,
Kathleen
Hope,
E. Lyn
Hughes,
Ronnie
Hughes,
David Gordon
Hull,
Frederick William
Hunter,
John Frederick
Iten,
Hans
Jameson,
Joan
Jammet,
Yvonne
Jobson,
John
Jury,
Anne Primrose
Kavanagh,
Joseph Malachy
Kavanagh,
Paul
Keenan,
Niamh
Kelly,
Frances J.
Kelly,
Paul
Kelly,
Lieut. Robert Barrett Talbot
Kenny,
Alan
Kernoff,
Harry
Kiely,
Bernadette
Kinahan,
Coralie de Burgh
Kirwan,
John
Klitz,
Tony
Knee,
Howard
Flanagan,
Barry
Flanagan,
Barry
Flannery,
Bridget
Healy,
Eithne
Knight,
Harold
Forbes,
Stanhope Alexander
Fitzgerald,
Mary
Kelly,
Frances J.
Kavanagh,
Joseph Malachy
Henderson,
Brian
Guinness,
Evelyn
Keating,
John
Geary,
Kevin
Hamilton,
Letitia Marion
Grey,
Alfred
Hawksett,
John
Garstin,
Alethea
Kane,
Michael
Hanlon,
Fr. Jack P.
Hamilton,
Eva Henrietta
Kingston,
Richard
Hovenden,
Thomas
Grattan,
George
Kirchhoffer,
Henry
Hussey,
Philip
Hutchinson,
Nicholas Hely
Hamilton,
Ken
Keating,
Seán
Harper,
Charles
Jallett,
Mainie
Grey,
Gregor
Maccabe,
Gladys
MacGonigal,
MacGonigal
Maclise,
Maclise
MacMíadhacháin,
Pádraig
MacSwiney,
Eugene Joseph
MacWeeney,
Leslie Mary
Madden,
Bernadette
Maderson,
Arthur K.
Maguire,
Brian
Maguire,
Cecil
Maher,
Alice
Marescaux,
Kathleen
Marjoram,
Gerald
Marrero,
Marrero
Mason,
William
McAllister,
Therése
McCarthy,
Brian
McCarthy,
Tony
McCartney,
Carlile Henry Hayes
McCloy,
Samuel
McCormick,
Arthur David
McDonnell,
Hector
McElheron,
Patrick
McEvoy,
William
McGann,
Val
McGourty,
Gerard
McGuinness,
Norah
McGuire,
Edward
McKelvey,
Frank
McNally,
Eithne
McNally,
Tony
Melai,
Guus
Middleton,
Colin
Mills,
John FitzMaurice
Mitchell,
Lillias
Monahan,
Hugh
Morle,
Morle
Moroney,
Ken
Morosini,
George
Morris,
Frank
Morrison,
Robert Boyd
Morrow,
Edwin A.
Mulvaney,
George Francis
Murphy,
Martin
Murphy,
T.C.
Murray,
Cóilín
Murray,
John Philip
Murray-Hayden ,
Adrian
Neill,
Henry Echlin
Nicholl,
Andrew
Nicholl,
William
Nicholson,
Francis
Nietsche,
Paul
O'Boyle,
Eamonn
O'Brien,
Geraldine
Ó Colmáin ,
Séamus
O'Connor,
Patrick
O'Connor,
Roderic
O'Donnell,
Henry C.
O'Neill,
Daniel
O'Neill,
Henry
O'Neill,
Hugh
O'Neill,
Niall
O'Neill,
Thaddeus
Osborne,
Dennis
Ovenden,
Rev. Charles Thomas
Pennefather,
George
Pennefather,
Helen S.
Powell,
Moila
Praeger,
Sophia Rosamund
Price,
Victor T.
Proud,
Liam
Pye,
Patrick
Ranson,
Ron
Reid,
Nano
Rivers,
Elizabeth
Roberts,
Thomas
Robinson,
Annie
Roche,
Emilie
Rogers,
William P.
Roland,
Rolli Luke
Ross,
Florence A.
Russell 'AE',
George
Ryan,
John
Ryan,
Thomas
Mahood,
Kenneth
Rode,
Mark
McAllister,
Therese
MacKinnon,
Síne
O'Kelly,
Aloysius
Pollen,
Patrick
Ó Seadhacháin,
Seán
McAleer,
Clement
Mellet,
Laurent
O'Sullivan,
Seán
McGuinness,
Norah
O'Brien,
Kitty Wilmer
Meenan,
Anton
Middleton,
John
O'Connell,
Eilis
O'Dea,
Michael
MacEgan,
Darius Joseph
MacKenzie,
Darius Joseph
Magrath,
William
McAdoo,
Violet
MacLiammóir,
Mícheál
Mackie,
Kathleen Isabella
Miles,
Thomas Rose
McGregor,
Robert
Nicholls RHA (1831-1903),
Charles Wynne
Murray,
John Philip
O'Casey,
Breon
Rowbotham,
Charles Edmund
Orpen,
Richard Caulfield
Purser,
Sarah
O'Keeffe,
Paul
Nakamura,
Makiko
Morrow,
Norman Macnamara
Ranson,
Ron
Reid,
Nano
Rivers,
Elizabeth
Roberts,
Thomas
Robinson,
Annie
Roche,
Emilie
Rogers,
William P.
Roland,
Rolli Luke
Ross,
Florence A.
Russell 'AE',
George
Ryan,
John
Ryan,
Thomas
Salkeld,
Cecil ffrench
Saunders,
Margaret E
Scanlan,
Robert Richard
Schwatschke,
John
Scott,
Michael
Scott,
Patrick
Scott,
William
Shannon,
Sir James Jebusa
Shawcross,
Neil
Sheridan,
Noel
Simms,
Kevin
Skillen,
Samuel
Sluis,
Piet
Smith,
Stephen Catterson
Souter,
Camille
Spode,
Samuel
Staples,
Sir Robert Ponsonby
Stephenson,
Desmond
Street,
Evelyn
Sutton,
Ivan
Swanzy,
Mary
Tallon,
Paul
Taylor,
Ann
Teeling,
Norman B.
Thomson,
Hugh
Till,
Walter
Tomrop-Hofmann,
Astrid
Treacy,
Liam
Turner,
Desmond
Tyrell,
Charles
Ussher,
Arland A.
van Stockum,
Hilda
Viale,
Patrick
Walker,
Thomas Bond
Walker,
John Crampton
Wall,
William Guy
Walmsley,
Thomas
Walsh,
Manus
Walsh,
Marian A.
Walsh,
Owen
Walsh,
Wendy F.
Ward,
Pearse
Waterford,
Louisa Ann, Marchioness of
Webb,
Kenneth
West,
Robert Lucius
White,
Margaret J.
Wilks,
Maurice Canning
Williams,
Alexander
Woods,
Padraic
Stannus,
Anthony Carey
Smyth,
Brian
Turner,
Desmond
Simonds-Gooding,
Maria
Rode,
Mark
Swift,
Patrick
Sheehan,
William
Williams,
Ellen
Shee,
Sir Martin Archer
Schurmann,
Killian
Young,
Mabel
Steyn,
Stella
Ungers,
Sibylle
Wade,
Jonathan
Taggart,
Elizabeth
Tansey,
Francis
Teskey,
Donald
Willis,
Richard Henry Albert
Webb,
Susan
Rowbotham,
Charles Edmund
Wynne-Jones,
Nancy
Smith,
Sidney
Tallentire,
Anne
Sloan,
Joseph
van der Grijn,
Erik Adriann
Watson,
Colin
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