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John Faulkner RHA (1835-1894)
Studied at the Royal Dublin Society's School from 1848 and commenced
exhibiting at the RHA in 1852. Left Ireland in 1870 "under
circumstances which brought about his removal from membership of
the Academy" (Strickland, Vol. II, p.340), but returned to
exhibiting at the RHA in 1880, continuing to do so until 1887.
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Patricia Faulkner (b.1946)
Belfast-born artist, she studied at the West Sussex Collage of Art
1962-1964, the Kingston College of Art 1964-1967, and the RCA 1967-1970.
She was awarded the silver medal at the RCA. Exhibited in numerous
group shows including the RA shows of the 1960s and '70s, and had
solo exhibitions at the Mercury Gallery, London, and the John Neville
Gallery, Canterbury.
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Joy Feld
Joy Feld was born in Belfast and lived "around the corner"
from William Conor, whom she and her family knew well. She worked
as a designer with Cyril Lord, afterwards moving to England.
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Angela Fewer (b.1946)
Angela Fewer studied architecture at TCD in the 1960s and graduated
from the Crawford College of Art & Design in the 1992 with a
BA in Fine Art (First Class Honours). She has had solo exhibitions
at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (1993), The Arts Council (1993)
and most recently in 1999 at the Temple Bar Gallery (Dublin). In
addition she has participated in numerous group shows particularly
at the Lavitt Gallery (Cork) and the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery.
Awarded the Art Flight Award in 1996, her work is in the collections
of UCD, UCC, and the Crawford to name but a few.
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Martin Finnin (b.1968)
A native of Limerick, he studied there at the College of Art and
later at NCAD. Finnin is now a resident of Cork city, where a triptych
of his hangs in the Cork Opera House, whilst more of his work can
be found in the permanent collection of the Crawford Gallery. Mark
Ewart writing in The Irish Times called him "the most innovative
and exciting artist currently in Ireland" (17th August, 1999).
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Mike Fitzharris (b.1952)
Born in Limerick, Mike Fitzharris studied both at the Limerick School
of Art and the Hochschule Fur Bildenke Kunste in Berlin. Since 1976
he has exhibited in many major group shows including the Oireachtas
and the RHA annual exhibitions, winning the Taylor de Vere award
at the latter in 1990. He has also had many solo shows, most noticeably
with the Riverrun Gallery and the Oriel Gallery, Dublin, and the
Gallerie Alexandre, Paris.
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James Hall Flack (b.1941)
A self-taught artist, James Flack has been exhibiting for over 25
years through the Kennedy Gallery and the Davis Gallery, Dublin,
Kenny's in Galway, the Kilcock Art Gallery in Kildare, and with
various group shows including the RHA, the WCSI and the Oireachtas.
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Michael Flaherty (b.1950)
Born on the Dingle Peninsular, Flaherty studied in Cork at UCC and
at the Crawford School of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout
Ireland, particularly with the Hendriks Gallery, Dublin, the Kenny
Gallery, Galway, the Cork Arts Society and the Sligo Art Gallery.
His work hangs in many major collections in Ireland and the USA.
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Fidelma Flanagan (b.1964)
Fidelma Flanagan was born in Co. Offaly in 1964. Self taught, she
has exhibited at the Oisín Gallery, Dublin, and one of her
paintings was chosen for the ICC Bank's 2000 Calendar.
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Terence P. Flanagan RHA PRUA (b.1929)
Flanagan has exhibited regularly at the annual exhibitions of the
RUA since 1954 and is a past president of this institution; he has
also exhibited at the RHA since 1965. He is represented in numerous
private, public and corporate collections.
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Frank Forty (1903-1996)
In Ireland, known for his watercolour landscapes of Donegal and
Kerry, Frank Forty was a consultant surgeon as well as a musician
and painter. He exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists,
the Medical Art Society (London), the Federation of British Artists
and the Society of French Artists, as well as with various local
and provincial English societies. He also showed work at the Paris
Salon, where he was awarded Honours in 1970. He was a family friend
of many notables including Gustav Holst, Sir Thomas Beecham and
fellow musicians and artists.
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Giuseppe Francavillia
Francavillia was an Italian artist who at one time resided in Ireland.
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Percy French (1854-1920)
Percy French was a self-taught landscape painter and illustrator.
Born near Tulsk in Co. Roscommon, he was educated in England and
later completed an engineering degree at TCD. Ever the entrepreneur,
he started various journals including the Irish Punch, wrote plays
and comical sketches, and acted and sang in many of his own theatrical
productions. By the 1890s he was listed as a 'working member' of
the Dublin Sketching Club, and between 1891 and 1901 French showed
twenty-four works at the RHA. He was a popular member of the United
Arts Club, Dublin, and a member of the Belfast Art Society. His
painting entitled `The Queens Entry into Dublin' is in the NGI,
whilst in the Royal Library of Windsor is a drawing of Queen Victoria's
procession entering Phoenix Park. However, he is best remembered
for his atmospheric watercolour paintings of Irish bogs and skies,
typically painted using a 'wet-on-wet' technique. His work as both
an artist and popular entertainer is commemorated by the Percy French
Society, which was formed in the 1980s, and which has collection
of some eighty watercolours by French on permanent display in the
North Down Heritage Centre.
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Katherine Mary Freyer (b.1910)
A friend and follower of Sickert, Katherine Mary Freyer attended
the Leeds College of Art between 1926-1932. From 1937 until 1947
she taught at the Bath Academy where her colleagues and friends
included William and Mary Scott. After hearing their favourable
accounts of the Irish landscape, Freyer made many trips there during
the fifties, particularly to the Aran Islands and Connemara. Her
Irish paintings of this period have always been very popular. She
has exhibited at the RA, the NEAC, the Yorkshire Society of Artists
and The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. Her work is in the
permanent collection of the RA, Leeds City Arts Gallery, Harrogate
Museum and Art Gallery and The University of Birmingham. She currently
resides in Harborne, Birmingham.
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Julian Friers (b.1956)
Born in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Friers has a reputation both home
and abroad for excellence in the field of wildlife art. He has exhibited
with the Society of Wildlife Artist (Mall Galleries, London) and
the RUA among others. His work has also sold at both Sotheby's (Billingshurst)
and Christie's.
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Paul Funge (b.1944)
Paul Funge is a Dublin painter highly regarded in particular for
his figurative works. He trained as a set designer and was closely
associated with the Lantern Theatre in Dublin. At an exhibition
of portraits in 1991 Brian Fallon, then art critic for The Irish
Times, described Funge as a "born handler of paint". Those
who have sat for him include television personality Mike Murphy
Funge and author Colm Toibin, who has said of Funge: "he has
been an exemplary influence on a whole generation of Irish painters".
He exhibits at the RHA and the Oireachtas Independents (of which
he was Chairman 1979-1982) and recently had a major retrospective
in Drogheda. His work is in the National Self-Portrait Collection
(Limerick), Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), Art Institute (San Francisco),
Gate Theatre (Dublin), National Concert Hall (Dublin), Dublin College
University, and the C. J. Haughey Collection.
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Aidan Gaffney
Aidan Gaffney is a Belfast artist who presently teaches at University
College, Dublin. He exhibits with the Bridge Gallery and Jorgensen
Fine Arts, Dublin.
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Martin Gale RHA (b.1949)
Born in Worcester, England, Martin Gale studied at NCAD and represented
Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1980. He has long favoured a form
of post-modern hyper-realism which attempts to mimic yet also transcend
photography, capturing with painstaking detail not just the fleeting
moment but also "a bewildering wealth of impressions"
and thereby demonstrating "the extraordinary in the prosaic"
(Aidan Dunne, Contemporary Irish Art: A Documentation, Wolfhound
Press, Dublin, 1982, p.16).
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Dennis Gallery
Born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Dennis Gallery is a self-taught artist
who has been living in the Connemara area since 1979. He typically
paints en plein air, in and around Clifden and on the Roundstone
Bog. He is represented by the Lavelle Art Gallery, Galway, and Combridge
Fine Arts and the Waldock Gallery, Dublin. His works are in private
and corporate collections including the Allied Irish Bank, Bank
of Ireland, and the collection of the Attorney General, Dáil
Éireann.
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Rose Brigid Ganley HRHA (1909-2002)
Daughter of the former president of the RHA, Dermod O'Brien, Rose
Brigid Ganley exhibited at the Dublin Painter's Society in the 1930s
and at the RHA nearly every year since 1928. See: S.B. Kennedy,
Irish Art & Modernism 1880-1950, Queens University, Belfast,
1991, pp.55-56, 117, 119. An obituary appeared in the 2002 RHA Annual
Exhibition catalogue, alongside a self-portrait of the artist which
hangs in Limerick University, as part of the National Self-Portrait
Collection.
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Simon Garrow (b.1946)
Studied at Byam Shaw and the RA School, London. Exhibited in London
at the RA, RCA, and the New Grafton Gallery among others, and has
received commissions from the National Trust, UK. Has been living
in Dublin since the 1990s.
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Brian Garvey
Brian Garvey graduated from NCAD in 1991 and later in 1998 from
UCD where he completed a postgraduate diploma in philosophy. His
subtly layered canvases are attracting official notice: his most
recent success includes an exhibition at the Paul Kane Gallery (Dublin),
an invitation to participate in 'Eigse' in Carlow, and being awarded
the Norwegian Painting Scholarship.
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George Gault (b.1916)
Born in Belfast in 1916, Gault's early career was in the military,
serving in the Royal Artillery from 1934 to 1937 and then being
recalled to service during WWII. In 1947 however, he turned to art,
enrolling in the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts where he studied
until 1951. One of his works is reproduced on the dust jacket of
the history of the school (published by the Antique Collector's
Club, 1995). His main influences as a student were William Coldstream
and Victor Pasmore. In 1954 Gault won the Silver Medal at the Paris
Salon, and three years later he was one of Jack Bedford's "Young
Artists of Promise" in the book of the same title. He has exhibited
at the RA, the NEAC, the Fine Art Society, and in numerous private
galleries.
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Terence Gayer
Gayer has exhibited regularly at the RHA since the 1980s.
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Michael Gemmell (b.1950)
Born in Coleraine, Co. Derry, Gemmell studied at NCAD 1966-1968
and at the College of Art in Limerick 1971-1972. He has run a stained-glass
studio in Blessington, Co. Wicklow, and now paints full-time, exhibiting
regularly at the RHA and with the Kennedy Gallery, Davis Gallery,
and the Waldock Gallery.
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Trevor Geoghegan (b.1946)
Born in London of Irish parents, Geoghegan came to live in Ireland
in 1970. He turned from abstract work to New Realism, inspired by
his neighbour, Martin Gale. He has had solo exhibitions at the Solomon
Gallery, Dublin, and the Kenny Gallery, Galway. He regularly exhibits
at the RHA and has work represented in the AIB Collection, Irish
Arts Council, and the National Self Portrait Collection, among others.
Has also lectured at NCAD for the past fifteen years.
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William Gillard (fl.1831-1876)
Born in England circa 1812, he first appeared as an exhibitor at
the RHA in 1831 and exhibited again between 1841-48 and 1860-1876,
with his listed addresses including Bristol, Dublin, Chester, Liverpool
and Dalkey. He painted landscapes many of Welsh scenery, as well
as game pieces and portraits. A portrait by him hangs in the Royal
College of Physicians in Dublin.
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William Crampton Gore RHA (1871-1946)
William Crampton Gore was the son of an army officer from Enniskillen,
Co. Fermanagh. He studied medicine at TCD, graduating in 1897 and
practising until 1901. An intervening period of some months in 1898
was spent studying art under Henry Tonks at the Slade School, giving
him a taste for life as a professional painter. After a stint abroad,
during which he worked as a ship's surgeon on sailings to north
America, India and Italy, he returned to London and the Slade, studying
there from 1900-1904. Whilst there he befriended Sir William Orpen
and Augustus John, sharing a studio with the latter. In 1905 he
first exhibited with the RHA and from then until 1939 he contributed
over a hundred works to their annual shows. In 1916 he was elected
an Associate member of the RHA and in 1918 he was made a full member.
His works were mainly interiors and still-lives in oils. Flower
painting in particular attracted him, and it was on his encouragement
that the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland first hosted an
exhibition of Flower and Garden Paintings at the Metropolitan School
of Art in the 1940s. He was represented in many survey shows of
Irish art, including the much-vaunted Irish Exhibition in Brussels
in 1930. Examples of his work can be seen in the Limerick City Gallery
of Art and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.
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Yann Renard Goulet RHA (1914-1999)
Yann Goulet was born in St. Nazaire in Brittany and began his artistic
studies in France at the École Nationale Supérior
des Beaux Arts. Here he studied both architecture and fine art,
learning the art of sculpture under one of Rodin's assistants, Despiau.
However, his passion for the Breton separatist cause brought about
his leaving France in 1947 and settling with his family in Ireland.
He established himself in Bray working primarily as a sculptor and
won a competition to design the Custom House Memorial in Dublin.
Ten years later, he began exhibiting at the RHA, eventually becoming
the RHA Professor of Sculpture. He was also made a member of Aosdána
in 1982. In Goulet's obituary which appeared in The Irish Times
on 25 August 1999, Aidan Dunne described him as an expressive innovator
of the arts in Ireland.
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Theodore James Gracey RUA (1895-1959)
Landscape painter and illustrator, Theo Gracey began his artistic
career as an apprentice lithographer in Belfast in 1909, and in
1915 enrolled in the Belfast School of Art. He exhibited principally
with the Belfast Art Society and later at the RUA of which he was
an academician. Between the years 1924-1951 he showed a total of
seventy works at the RHA. He also submitted a number of pictures
to the Fine Art Society in London. He was a friend of Frank McKelvey
(q.v.) and Maurice MacGonigal. Recognised mainly as a watercolourist
and a painter of counties Donegal and Antrim, Gracey also illustrated
Richard Hayward's book In the Kingdom of Kerry, (Dundalgan Press,
Dundalk, 1946).
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William Grattan (c.1972-1821)
Strickland (op. cit., p. 408) notes the "careful and laboured"
nature of Grattan's work, which earned the artist a medal at the
RDS Drawing School for four consecutive years, 1801-1804.
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Alfred Grey RHA (1845-1926)
Born in Dublin Alfred Grey was a son of Charles Grey RHA (1808-1892)
and a brother to Edwin Landseer. He was commissioned by Queen Victoria
to paint a number of her favourite views in the Scottish Highlands.
Nearly all his pictures have some form of livestock in them, usually
highland cattle. He first exhibited at the RHA in 1864 and continued
almost annually until 1924.
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Gregor Grey (fl.1870s-1911)
Gregor Grey was the son of Charles Grey RHA (c.1808-1892) and brother
of the painters Alfred Grey RHA (1845-1926), Edwin Landseer Grey
and James Grey and the engraver Charles Malcolm Grey. Gregor exhibited
every year at the RHA from 1877-1911, averaging three to four exhibits
a year - the most that a non-RHA member could possibly hope to have
accepted. He also showed twice at the Oireachtas Art Exhibitions
of 1906 and 1907. His works tended to be on a rustic theme and featured
quaint, anecdotal titles. Grey earned - albeit unwittingly - some
modicum of posterity when James Joyce included in Ulysses a character
called Gregor Grey who was the designer of Gallaher's map and whose
career was given "a leg up" by illustrating an advertisement.
A pair of Grey's works appeared in the Christie's Irish Sale (19
May 2000, lot 136) and realised Stg £6,000.
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Charles Edward Gribbon (1898-1939)
An entirely untutored artist, Edward C. Gribbon's work bears comparison
to the primitive Tory Islander school of painters and like them,
has been praised for its vibrancy and freshness of outlook. Gribbon
was born in Belfast, but early in his life travelled to a Swiss
sanitorium for his health. By the 1920s he was living in France,
where he remained more or less for the rest of his life. He exhibited
in France, London and Dublin (at the Angus Gallery and at Daniel
Egan's gallery) and won the support and admiration of many fellow
artists including Sir John Lavery. Dr S. B. Kennedy described his
work as expressionist and as having a sense of urgency "quite
different to and refreshing from that of his Irish contemporaries".
A photograph of the artist and a reproduction of one of his works
appear in Kennedy's Irish Art and Modernism (Hugh Lane Gallery,
1991, pp.80-84).
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Charles McIver Grierson RI (1864-1939)
Born in Queenstown (now Cobh) Co. Cork, Grierson studied at the
Crawford School of Art and later at the Westminster School in London.
Here in 1892, he became a member of the RI and exhibited over 80
works with them over the following years. In the late 1890s Grierson
returned to Ireland, meeting his future wife in Co. Sligo. His works
are thus found in several private collections around Sligo as well
as in the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. In his own lifetime
they were also shown at the RA, the RHA, Liverpool's Walker Art
Gallery, the Society of Artists in Birmingham and the Abbey Gallery,
London.
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Bill Griffin
A native of Cork city, Bill Griffin studied at the RCA in London,
winning as a student the Vogue award in 1979. He has worked in painting,
sculpture and photography, and is represented in the collections
of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Arts Council of Great
Britain, among others.
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Anthony Grogan (fl.1920s, 1930s)
Anthony Grogan studied at the School of Art, Dublin and exhibited
at the RHA in the years 1929 and 1931.
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May Guinness (1863-1955)
An early Irish modernist, a pupil of André Lhote's and a
friend and teacher to both Evie Hone and Mainie Jellet, May Guinness
was born in 1863 in Ireland as Mary Catherine Guinness. She began
exhibiting in 1892 with the WCSI, with whom she was to show more
than 120 paintings over the next sixty years. In 1894 she travelled
to the Cornish art colony of Newlyn, along with fellow watercolourist
Mildred Anne Butler. Around 1910 she first visited France, finding
inspiration there from various artists including Kees van Dongen
(1877-1968). In Dublin she encouraged younger artists to experiment
with colour and form, whilst applying herself to various mediums
including fresco painting and decorative needlework. During the
First World War she was a military nurse and was awarded the Croix
de Guerre. She had an exhibition of her work at the St Stephens
Green Gallery in 1922, and another ten years later at the Mills'
Hall in Merrion Row. She exhibited with the Dublin Painters and
the IELA, as well as at the Victor Waddington Galleries. A retrospective
was held the year after her death at the Dawson Gallery, Dublin.
Her painting 'A Religious Procession In Brittany' is in the NGI.
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Paul E. Güven
Born in Dublin of mixed Turkish Cypriot and Irish parents, Paul
Güven now exhibits through the Oísín Gallery,
Dublin.
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Sir Francis Seymour Haden PRE (1818-1910)
The brother-in-law of Whistler, Haden's best work was executed in
the early 1860s, shortly prior to which Haden and Whistler lived
together, working jointly on an unfulfilled project of etchings
of the Thames. Haden also spent some time in Ireland in Co. Tipperary,
and his works produced there have been rated as some of the finest
landscape etchings of the nineteenth century. He was a founding
member and president of the RE, and also pursued a career as an
eminent physician, attending, among others, Queen Victoria. Haden's
etchings are represented in the collections of the V&A and the
British Museum.
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Alice Hanratty
Alice Hanratty is a Dublin-born printmaker. She studied at NCAD
and the Hornsey College of Art, London, and has participated in
numerous International Biennales of Print since the 1970s. Aside
from solo exhibitions at the Davis Gallery and Setanta Gallery,
Dublin, and in galleries in Bangor, Co. Down and in Nairobi, Kenya,
she has also shown in a number of major group shows including 'The
Delighted Eye' (London, 1979), 'Irish Artists' (Chicago, 1980),
IELA (1962-1982), and 'Irish Women Artist From the Eighteenth Century
to the Present Day' (Dublin, 1987).
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Eleanor Harbison ANCA
Eleanor Harbison is an artist from Blackrock who has exhibited regularly
at the RHA since 1961. In the late 1980s she moved to Caherdaniel
in Co. Kerry, from where she continues to exhibit mainly still life
studies and portraits, many of them in pastel.
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Henry Albert Hartland (1840-1893)
Born at Bellvue, Mallow, into a prominent Cork family of nurserymen
(his brother William Baylor Hartland in particular was well-known
among Cork business circles), Henry Albert Hartland studied at the
Cork School of Art. He found employment supplying sketches of the
local landscape to a Cork bookseller, and printing scenery for the
Cork Theatre and the Theatre Royal in Dublin. He left Ireland circa
1870, settling at first in London and shortly afterwards in Liverpool,
where he spent the rest of his life. His talents there were soon
recognised and he sold paintings almost as fast as he painted them.
He made return trips to Ireland, painting in Mayo, Clare, and along
the River Shannon. In 1865 he sent five landscapes to the RHA and
was an occasional contributor afterwards. He also exhibited in London
with the Society of Artists, the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Watercolour
Society, and the RA. He died in 1893 after falling from a cliff
outside of Liverpool. His work was included in the Guildhall Exhibition
of Irish Art in London in 1904, and may now be seen in the Walker
Gallery, Liverpool, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Joseph Patrick Haverty RHA (1794-1864)
A native of Galway city, Haverty first came to notice when he submitted
a painting to the Hibernian Society of Artists in 1814. By the following
year he was a resident of Dublin and for the rest of his life alternated
between Galway, Dublin and London. His best known work is "The
Limerick Piper", now in the NGI.
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Claude Hayes RI ROI (1852-1922)
A Dublin-born landscape and portrait painter, Claude Hayes was the
son of maritime artist Edwin Hayes (q.v.). He received little to
no encouragement however, from his father, and at an early age ran
away to sea. On his return to England he trained at Heatherley's
in London and at the RA Schools, where he stayed for three years.
He later studied under Charles Verlat (1824-1890) in Antwerp. Hayes
first showed at the RHA in 1874 and presented there a total of twenty-one
works. In 1876 he exhibited at the RA - a connection that lasted
40 years. He was elected to membership of the RI in 1886 and the
ROI in 1883. He is best remembered for his pastoral scenes, with
their softly diffused light and neat lines of haystacks. His work
is in various public collections in England and Ireland including
the Ulster Museum and the Leeds City Art Gallery.
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Edwin Hayes RHA RI ROI (1819-1904)
Edward Hayes spent his youth in Dublin and was a student in the
Dublin Society's Schools. From the very first he wanted to be a
marine painter, and living close to the quays and docks helped him
in this endeavor. In 1842 he exhibited at the RHA and in 1855 exhibited
at the RA where he was a regular contributor for forty-nine years.
He exhibited also with the Society of British Artists and with The
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, of which he became
an Associate in 1860 and a Member in 1863. He continued to contribute
to the RHA and was elected an Associate in 1853 and a member in
1871.
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Ernest Columba Hayes RHA (1914-1978)
A student at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, where he studied
under Sean Keating, Hayes began exhibiting at the RHA in 1933, continuing
to do so up until his death in 1978. He also exhibited with the
Dublin Sketching Club.
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Phyllis Hayward (1903-1985)
A member of the White Stag Group and also the Society of Dublin
Painters,
Phyllis Hayward was born in Portsmouth, England, and first studied
art there at the Portsmouth School of Art. She moved to London where
she studied part-time at the Central School of Art and came under
the influence of Basil Rakocsi's Society for Creative Psychology.
In 1940 Hayward moved to Dublin and began exhibiting with both the
White Stags and the Contemporary Pictures Gallery. Her work was
characterised by a dynamic use of line and bold colours. Together
with Rakocsi, Kenneth Hall, Mainie Jellett, and Patrick Scott she
represented the most experimental stream of art at that time in
Ireland. She was also a regular exhibitor at the Irish Exhibition
of Living Art. Hayward left Dublin circa 1951, returning to London
where - apart from brief periods spent in France - she remained
until her death.
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Henry Healy RHA (1909-1982)
Landscape painter Henry Healy graduated from the Dublin Metropolitan
School of Art in 1934 and went on to study in London and Paris.
He made his first appearance at the RHA in 1938, and continued exhibiting
there over the next forty years. He was appointed an Academician
in 1966. Healy travelled widely, often choosing exotic locations
for his painted subject matter. He exhibited with and was President
of the Dublin Painters. In 1981 he was elected to the Board of Governors
of the NGI. His final years were spent teaching art in Dooega, Achill
Island. The Taylor Galleries, Dublin, staged a retrospective of
his work shortly after his death.
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Patrick Hennessy RHA (1915-1980)
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born
in Cork but was sent as a child to Scotland to be raised there by
relatives. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting
there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig.
A further scholarship enabled him to study in Paris and Rome. He
returned to Ireland at the outbreak of the second world war, moving
alternately being Dublin and Cork. In 1941 he first exhibited at
the RHA, having already exhibited a still-life and a self-portrait
at the Royal Scottish Academy two years earlier. Over the next thirty
years he showed almost one hundred works at the RHA, ranging between
interiors and still-lives, portraits, and landscapes. In all of
his compositions he employed a distinctive realist style. In his
later years he travelled frequently in Europe and North Africa,
often spending his winters in Morocco. A self-portrait hangs in
the NGI, whilst the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork has five
works by him and another four paintings of his can be seen at the
Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
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William John Hennessy NA ROI (1840-1917)
A Kilkenny born artist who painted in Normandy, circa 1875-1890.
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Grace Henry HRHA (1868-1953)
Born in Peterhead, Aberdeen, as Emily Grace Mitchell, she studied
art at the Blanc Garrins Academy, Brussels, and the Delecluse Academy,
Paris. She was also a pupil for a while under André L'hote.
In Paris she met the Irish painter Paul Henry (q.v.), whom she married
in 1903. They settled in England and Grace began exhibiting in London
at the RA, the Leicester Galleries, and the Fine Art Society. Along
with her artist husband, she sent works to the RHA from 1910 onwards,
and two years later they left England for Achill Island, where they
spent seven productive years painting the local people and landscape.
In 1922 she was represented at the Irish Exhibition in Paris with
five works; later she was included in a similar loan exhibition
in Brussels in 1930. Both she and Paul were founder members of the
Dublin Painters group. They exhibited together at the Stephen's
Green Gallery, Dublin, and the Magee Gallery, Belfast. However,
the pair were formally separated in 1934. Grace took to traveling
and painting in France. Her work was boldly conceived in vibrant
colours and decisive brushwork; "her painting", commented
the Studio in 1939, was "all poetry". She continued to
exhibit both in London and Dublin, notably with the Waddington Galleries
and at the RHA. Although never made an Associate, she was elected
an Honorary RHA in 1949. Her work is in many major public collections
in Ireland.
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Olive Henry RUA (1902-1989)
As a native of Belfast, Olive Henry's involvement in painting and
stained glass design began when she enrolled in night classes at
the Belfast school of Art as a young girl. A career in this line
of work developed when the owner of W. F. Clokey & Co., a predominant
Belfast glass firm, offered her an apprenticeship on completion
of her education at Victoria College. This was the beginning of
a long and fruitful career lasting fifty-three years. Most of her
time was spent designing windows; she seldom had the opportunity
to produce the cartoons and paint the glass herself. Today she is
primarily known for her career as an artist rather than stained
glass designer despite her long service in this industry. From 1928
onwards she exhibited regularly at the Belfast Art Society, the
Ulster Academy of Arts and at the Royal Ulster Academy and was a
founder member and past president of the Ulster Society of Women
Artists. She also exhibited at the RHA and the WCSI. Landscape,
still life, abstract shape and pattern were the main themes of her
art work with boats and gates being common motifs. The training
in stained glass design often emerged on the canvas in the form
of complex and vibrant configurations.
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Paul Henry RHA RUA (1876-1958)
Arguably the most influential Irish landscape artist of the twentieth
century, Henry began his artistic career as a textile designer,
studying at the Government School of Design in Belfast with William
Conor (q.v.). Funded by a family member, he travelled to Paris to
study under Jean-Paul Laurens and later Alphonse Mucha. Here he
met Grace Mitchell whom he married in London in 1903. In London
he received encouragement from Walter Sickert and made a living
giving classes, writing pamphlets, and submitting illustrations
to the daily papers. After first exhibiting at the RHA in 1910,
he was appointed an Associate in 1926 and a full member in 1928.
He was also one of the first Academicians of the Ulster Academy
of Arts. Upon the death of his first wife in 1953 he remarried another
artist Mabel Young. His career has been extensively documented both
in his own writings and most recently in Dr Kennedy's monograph,
Paul Henry (Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2000).
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John Levin Henry (1855-1929)
Henry exhibited occasionally at the RHA between 1883 and 1917.
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Desmond Hickey
Des Hickey studied at NCAD under Henry Healy (q.v.) during the 1970s
and now exhibits annually with the RHA and the Oireachtas.
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Patrick Hickey (1927-1998)
Born in India, Hickey lived in Ireland from 1948 onwards. He studied
architecture at UCD (graduating in 1954), and later etching and
lithography at Scuola del Libro, Urbino, Italy. He exhibited at
the IELA in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, and held numerous solo exhibitions
at the Dawson Gallery. A master printmaker, he founded the Graphic
Studio Dublin in 1961, and his painting technique developed out
of his printmaking methods. "In his painting, he has achieved
the phenomenon of the true painter in imposing his style on the
landscape. There are quite definite types of countryside, forestry
plantations, sheer sides of mountains, which are identifiable as
'Patrick Hickey'" (Tony Hickey, The Irish Imagination 1959-1971,
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, 1971, p.7).
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Rowland Hill ARUA (1915-1979)
A painter of fairly traditional landscapes, particularly of Co.
Donegal, where he often painted in the company of Theo Gracey and
Padraic Woods (q.q.v.).
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William Hincks (fl.1773-1797)
Born in Waterford, Hincks was self taught as an artist, and exhibited
at the Society of Artists, Dublin, in the 1780s, as well as at the
RA, London.
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Ries Hoek
Living and working (as a graphic designer with RTÉ) in Ireland
since 1958, Ries Hoek has had exhibitions in Holland and Ireland.
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Kathleen Holohan
A Kilkenny born artist, she studied art at Waterford Regional College
and has had solo exhibitions in the Arts Centre (Waterford) and
the Butler Gallery (Kilkenny Castle). Awarded prize for best painting
for three consecutive years (1990-1992) at the Kilkenny Arts Fringe
and was featured in May 1990 on the RTE Arts Show.
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E. Lyn Hope (fl. 1938-1959)
E. Lyn Hope exhibited every year from 1944 to 1959 with the Watercolour
Society of Ireland, at the RHA from 1940-1958, and at the Victor
Waddington Galleries.
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Ronnie Hughes (b.1965)
Born in Belfast, Ronnie Hughes obtained an MA in Fine Art from the
University of Ulster. His talent as a young emerging painter was
recognised in 1991 when he was awarded the internationally coveted
year-long fellowship at PS1 studios in New York. Since then he has
had numerous solo exhibitions particularly at the Rubicon Gallery,
Dublin and a major survey of his career to date was held at the
Sligo Model Arts Centre in 1998. His work is represented in the
collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and is discussed at
length in Liam Kelly's Thinking Long: Contemporary Art in the North
of Ireland, Gandon Editions, Kinsale, 1996.
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David Gordon Hughes (b.1957)
David Gordon Hughes is a Belfast born artist. He has exhibited widely
in Ireland and also in the USA. His work is primarily concerned
with colour, the intense vibrancy of pigment that captures his deep
innermost feeling of passion for his subject, the true medium of
an artist.
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Frederick William Hull (1867-1953)
A Belfast businessman and artist, Hull was born in Drogheda, Co.
Louth. In the 1890s he took painting lessons at the Government School
of Art in Belfast. A member of the Belfast Art Society, he was also
an exhibitor at the Ulster Arts Club and the RHA. The year 1949
was a very successful one for Hull as the Belfast Museum and Art
Gallery staged a retrospective of his work. Hull's trademark was
his small wooden panels, especially cut to fit the inside the lid
of his paintbox, thereby allowing him ease of travel and to paint
en plein air.
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John Frederick Hunter RUA (1893-1951)
Born in Manchuria but educated in Larne (Co. Antrim), Belfast and
at TCD, Hunter was part of a progressive group of artists in the
north who exhibited briefly together as the Ulster Unit. During
a period at the RCA in London in the early twenties he learnt the
principles of modernism as they were then being espoused by Herbert
Read, influencing his future work. In 1923 he was appointed the
first Inspector of Art to the Ministry of Education in Northern
Ireland. He exhibited regularly at the RUA and with the Ulster Arts
Club and the Waddington Galleries, Dublin.
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Hans Iten (1874-1930)
Born in Zurich, Iten came to Belfast in 1904 as a damask designer.
He exhibited at the RHA from 1908, his work mainly comprising landscapes
of Counties Antrim, and Down.
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Joan Jameson (1892-1953)
Born in London, the eldest daughter of Sir Richard and Lady Musgrave
of Tourin, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, she was educated at the Sorbonne
and studied art at the Académie Julian. She returned to Ireland
in 1920 upon marriage to Captain T. O. Jameson, and from that time
began submitting paintings to various English and Irish exhibitions.
She held two solo shows at the Leicester Galleries, London, in 1933
and 1937, whilst also exhibiting with the Goupil Gallery and the
Wertheim Gallery. In the 1940s she regularly submitted work to the
IELA and exhibited with the Dublin Painters group. A close friend
of Norah McGuinness (q.v.), who often stayed at the Jameson's home
in Ardmore, Co. Waterford, Jameson painted in a modern idiom and
was associated with those Irish painters influenced by "the
French school". A retrospective in 1989, arranged by Sotheby's
in conjunction with the Crawford Gallery, Cork, consisted mainly
of works from her studio, and was exhibited both in Cork and in
Dublin, at the RHA Gallagher Gallery.
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Yvonne Jammet (1900-1967)
Sculptor and painter she was born in Paris as Yvonne Auger. She
studied at the Académie Julian and at the studio of Jean
Paul Laurens. In 1928 she came to Dublin with her restaurateur husband
Louis Jammet. Their restaurant, Jammet's, became a meeting point
for artists and writers; Yvonne in particular being a sympathetic
supporter of younger, experimental artists. She was herself a member
of the White Stag Group and exhibited many times at the Victor Waddington
Galleries as well as the IELA.
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John Jobson (b.1941)
John Jobson works from a studio in County Wicklow. Ciarán
MacGonigal has said of his work, "colour, shape and texture
play a large part in his visual syntax … His respect for the
qualities of light and movement give [his] work their special impact".
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Anne Primrose Jury RUA (1907-1995)
Exhibited with the Belfast Art Society 1926-1929, the Ulster Academy
of Arts 1931-1949, and the RUA 1950-1979.
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Joseph Malachy Kavanagh RHA (1856-1918)
Born in Dublin he exhibited at the RHA from 1875, won the Albert
Scholarship of 1881 and travelled with his friends Walter Osborne
and Nathaniel Hone to Antwerp to study at Académie Royale.
He exhibited regularly at the RHA, and participated in Hugh Lane's
1904 Exhibition of Works by Irish Painters in London. He was appointed
Keeper at the RHA in 1910 and had to flee the Abbey Street building
during the 1916 Rising when it was destroyed by shelling, leaving
behind all his possessions including many of his pictures.
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Paul Kavanagh (b.1946)
Paul Kavanagh is a Dublin born artist who trained under Brian McCarthy
(q.v.). In recent years he has had many successful group shows exhibiting
his trade mark interior still life studies.
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Niamh Keenan
A graduate of the NCA, Dublin, Niamh Keenan has exhibited at the
WCSI 1963-1997 and is represented in the Society's permanent exhibit
in Limerick University. She has also exhibited at the annual Celtic
Exhibition in France and in Holland.
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Frances J. Kelly ARHA (active 1929-1950s)
Born in Co. Louth, Frances Kelly studied at the Metropolitan School
of Art, Dublin. In 1932, upon becoming the first student to win
the Henry Higgins travelling scholarship she went to Paris, studying
there for three years under the cubist painter Léopold Survage
(1879-1968) and attending various other schools there of drawing
and painting. On her return to Dublin she exhibited with the Dublin
Painters and at the Dawson Gallery, also contributing to the RHA
and the Living Art exhibitions. She collaborated with Nano Reid
(q.v.) on a series of wall frescoes depicting scenes of Irish labour,
which were commissioned in the 1940s for the Four Provinces building
in Harcourt Street (these have since sadly been destroyed by developers
in 1988). In the mid-1940s she married the eminent Irish statesman,
F. H. Boland (1904-1985), who was then Assistant Secretary to the
Department of External Affairs. As Boland's career progressed, leading
Frances and their five children firstly to London when Boland was
appointed Ambassador to Britain in 1950 and later to New York, where
he was the first permanent Irish representative to the UN (and later
President of the General Assembly), Kelly seems to have stopped
exhibiting her work.
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Paul Kelly (b.1968)
Following on from the success of his first two solo exhibitions,
Paul Kelly was named Artist of the Year at the annual Christie's
Ireland Fund Auction and Dinner which was held in London in 2000.
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Lieut. Robert Barrett Talbot Kelly RI (1896-1971)
Grandson of the Dublin-born artist Robert George Kelly (1822-1910)
and son of artist and Egyptologist Robert George Talbot Kelly RBA
RI (1861-1934) under whom he studied painting. Exhibited at the
Royal Academy, the Paris Salon, the ROI and the RI. He also illustrated
several books on bird life.
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Alan Kenny
Alan Kenny is an Irish painter. He worked mostly as a landscapist
during
the 1970s and 1980s; his more recent work has a stylised and slightly
surreal aspect to it, although returns to the soft-edged effects
of his
earlier landscapes.
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Harry Kernoff RHA (1900-1974)
The son of Jewish parents of mixed Russian and Spanish descent,
Kernoff was born in London but moved to Dublin at an early age when
his father opted to begin a cabinet-making business there. Kernoff's
artistic training began with night classes at the Dublin Metropolitan
School of Art. Upon winning the prestigious Taylor Scholarship however,
in 1923, he became a day student and henceforth devoted all his
energies to art. Three years later he began exhibiting at the RHA,
continuing to do so nearly every year for the next five decades.
He also had two solo exhibitions with the Victor Waddington Galleries
in 1936 and 1937. He supported himself largely through selling woodcuts;
three books of these were published - the first appearing in 1942.
Kernoff's depictions of working-class Dublin, it's streets of Georgian
houses crossed by lines of flapping washing, are now much sort after
by collectors. He was also a prolific portrait artist, painting
many of Ireland's leading literary and theatrical lights, some of
which now hang in the Dublin Writer's Museum. His work is in most
major public collections in Ireland.
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Bernadette Kiely (b.1958)
Bernadette Kiely hails from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. She
studied at the School of Art, Waterford, 1975-1977 and 1982-1983
and has had solo exhibitions at the Butler Gallery, Limerick, City
Art Gallery, and Crawford Gallery, Cork (all in 1994), Sligo Art
Gallery and the Hallward Gallery, Dublin (1995), and the Taylor
Galleries, Dublin (1998). She has also had a joint exhibition with
Brian Bourke at the Galway Art Centre (1995). Aidan Dunne wrote
of her work: "They are vigorously made with echoes of such
'painterly' painters as Howard Hodgkin, Gillian Ayres and Albert
Irwin, but Kiely is a formidable talent with her own distinctive
voice" (The Sunday Tribune, 22 August, 1993).
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Coralie de Burgh Kinahan
A member of the de Burgh family, Naas, Co. Kildare, she married
Sir Robert Kinahan of Templepatrick. She exhibited at the RA, RSA,
RUA and several other major institutions.
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John Kirwan (b.1956)
Born in Dublin, Kirwan graduated from the Dun Laoghaire School of
Art in 1978. His first solo show was held in 1983 at the Oisín
Art Gallery. He has subsequently had further one-man exhibitions
at the Lincoln Gallery, the George Gallery, the Howth Harbour Gallery
and the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.
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Tony Klitz (d.2000)
Klitz was an English-born artist who lived and painted in Ireland
for most of his life. His last few solo exhibitions were all held
at the Davis Gallery, Dublin.
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Howard Knee (1889-1971)
Born in London in 1889, Frederick Howard Knee arrived in Dublin
in 1912 where he worked and painted for the rest of his life. Apart
from an occasional class at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art,
Knee was almost entirely self taught. Primarily regarded as a landscape
artist, he was a prolific member of the Dublin Sketching Club. He
began exhibiting at the RHA in 1916 and continued to do so until
1967. Having switched from oils to watercolours in the early part
of his career, his exhibitions at the Victor Waddington Galleries,
Dublin, proved popular, although in 1952 the Dublin Magazine found
them pedestrian and labelled Knee as a "drawing-room painter".
His carefully executed watercolour landscapes became a trademark
throughout the later years of his career right up until his last
exhibition at Combridge's Galleries just prior to his death.
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Gene Lambert RHA (b.1952)
Born in Dublin, Lambert studied at the NCAD. He has exhibited regularly
in group shows including the IELA, Independent Artists, and the
Claremorris National Art Exhibition, where he won first prize in
1979. He represented Ireland at the 14th International Festival
of Painting in Cagnes-sur-Mer in France in 1982, and was made the
Sunday Tribune Visual Artist of the Year in 1985. He has had several
solo exhibitions in Ireland, Denmark, Holland and England. In 1991
he co-edited The Great Book of Ireland with Theo Dorgan.
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Pat Langan
Exhibited widely in early 1990s including the RHA.
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Diarmuid Larkin (1918-89)
Born in Drumcondra in 1918, Diarmuid Larkin, son of building contractor,
Sean Larkin, entered the National College of Art in 1941. Having
exhibited at the RHA in 1942 his artistic skills were awarded in
his final year at NCAD in the form of a scholarship from the Spanish
Government. However, having decided that art education was his vocation,
he began full-time teaching in 1953 at Ballinasloe Vocational School.
Larkin later held a position in Mullingar VS and Dun Laoghaire Technical
College. Over the next few years, Larkin developed a special art
course for students which was subsequently recognized by the VEC
and the Department of Education. This in turn led to the establishment
of the Dun Laoghaire School of Art. He wrote a book entitled Art
Learning and Teaching: A Seven Year Manual for the Primary/Elementary
Teacher. While he continued in education, Larkin's career as an
artist was also flourishing. He participated in the local Art Guild
in Mullingar, the Aisling Gallleries, New York, The Robinson Gallery,
Dublin and exhibited about fifty works in the RHA up until the time
of his death.
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George Lawrence (fl. 1774-1802)
Initially a pupil of the RDS Drawing Schools, Lawrence established
a successful portrait practice in Dublin, firstly with a studio
in Grafton Street and later in South Frederick Street. Strickland
(op. cit.) described him as excellent painter in miniature and crayons
(Vol. II, p.12).
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Edward Louis Lawrenson (1868-1940)
A Dublin born landscape painter and etcher, educated at Trinity
College, Dublin, he first soldiered with the Connaught Rangers per
his family tradition, leaving the army in 1900 to study art in Paris.
He studied under Colarossi, Mucha, and in Holland, the American
artist, George Hitchcock. He exhibited regularly at the RA from
1907 to 1934 and at the RHA between 1900 and 1934. He designed the
one of the first commemorative postage stamps of the Irish Free
State to mark the opening of the Shannon Barrage in 1930.
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Louis le Brocquy HRHA (b.1916)
Louis le Brocquy was born in Dublin. A self taught artist he is
recognised by many as the greatest Irish artist of the twentieth
century, and one of the greatest of any era. The recent realisation
of over £1 million for one of his works at auction is not
merely a record but an acknowledgement of his genius and international
appeal.
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William John Leech RHA ROI (1881-1968)
On the invitation of his friend and fellow art student Sydney Thompson,
Leech first visited the small Breton fishing village of Concarneau
in 1903 and painted there periodically until 1917. Concarneau at
this time was already a well established artist's colony, attracting
among others Aloysius O'Kelly and John Lavery, both of whom were
to befriend Leech and influence his work. In the 1907-1910 period
Leech was making long sojourns from his base in Dublin to Concarneau
where he lodged at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. The hotel provided
artist studios on the top floor from which Leech had a view directly
over the top of the market place. He painted a number of these 'birds-eye-view'
market scenes, as well as others which were painted en plein air
amidst the hustle and bustle of the daily market. These latter works
were often on small 7 by 9 inch wooden panels which slotted into
a pochade box, a useful article designed to accommodate wet oil
sketches and which had been used by Whistler and after him Lavery.
Characteristic of these small market scenes were the use of strong
verticals balanced against the long, horizontal shadows, and as
Denise Ferran has written, a fluidity of brush work in which "the
laden brush is drawn with assurance to depict the subject with great
vividness" and "splashes of alizarin crimson contrast
with the greys and earth colours of the surround", signalling
the direction Leech would follow in his later, Impressionist works.
(Denise Ferran, William John Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad, NGI,
Dublin, 1996, p.38).
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Harry G. Lees (fl.1940s)
Harry Lees exhibited with the Grafton Gallery in the 1940s and showed
once at the RHA in 1946.
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Paddy Lennon (b.1955)
Born in the Cooombe, Dublin, Paddy Lennon trained as a draughtsman
and sculptor in Dublin in the 1970s, and studied art in the City
& Guilds College, London 1978-1980. He has exhibited in England,
Ireland USA and Mexico. Exhibits regularly at Kenny's, Galway.
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Pamela Leonard
A member of the WCSI, her work is represented in their permanent
collection (University of Limerick). She was one of the prize winners
at the 1999 exhibition.
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Patrick Leonard HRHA (b.1918)
Born in Rush, Co. Dublin, Patrick Leonard studied under Seán
Keating and Maurice MacGonigal (q.v.) at the Metropolitan School
of Art, Dublin. He has exhibited at the RHA since 1941, and was
elected an Honorary Member in 1983. Bouts of illness have often
interrupted his work as both artist and teacher. James Gorry in
Patrick Leonard HRHA - Fifty Years of Painting (1990 Retrospective
Exhibition at The Gorry Gallery, Dublin) writes "The integrity
of Leonard's approach is such that a peaceful landscape will accommodate
a car or 'plane if it passes at the time he is sketching, and colours
considered too vibrant by others, but very real in his perception,
are never constrained - this freedom of spirit is a hallmark of
his work".
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Elizabeth K. Lindsay (fl. 1800-1840s)
An amateur watercolour artist of considerable ability, Elizabeth
Lindsay was the daughter of the Hon. Charles Dalrymple Lindsay (1760-1846),
the Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare and Dean of Christ Church
Cathedral. She later married to become Mrs Domville.
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Henry Love (fl.1915-1923)
Henry Love exhibited at the RHA from an address in Monkstown, Co.
Dublin, between 1915 and 1923. He appears to have travelled widely
throughout Ireland, painting picturesque landscapes and ruins. See:
Ann M. Stewart (ed.), RHA of Arts: Index of Exhibitors 1828-1979,
Manton Publishing, Dublin, 1986.
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Roy Lyndsay (b.1945)
Born in Co. Tyrone, Roy Lyndsay studied and taught at the NCAD,
Dublin, before moving to Collinstown, Co. Westmeath, in 1989. He
has exhibited with the RHA, Kenny's Art Gallery, Galway, and the
Lincoln Gallery, Dublin.
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Philip Lyons (b.1963)
Philip Lyons is a Cork born artist who trained at the Crawford School
of Art. He is heavily influenced by the Impressionists.
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