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