Gregor Grey
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. www.whytes.ie 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. www.whytes.ie
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'A PARTING GLANCE, 1894'
- Price Realised: 6,500
- Sale: 30 April 2007
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 64cm., 20 by 25in.
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'A GOLDEN HARVEST, 1903'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 62 by 52cm., 24.5 by 20.5in.
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'HER FIRST BROOD, 1887'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 71 by 91cm., 28 by 36in.
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'FARMYARD RECITAL'
- Price Realised: 4,570
- Sale: 13 June 2001
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'AN UNINVITED GUEST, 1909'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 46 by 61cm., 18 by 24in.
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'DUCKLINGS, 1893'
- Price Realised: 680
- Sale: 03 April 2017
- oil on canvas
- 13½ x 20Ύin. (34.29 x 52.71cm)
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'PUPPIES AND A HEDGEHOG'
- Price Realised: 520
- Sale: 30 September 2013
- oil on canvas
- 14 by 21in., 35 by 52.5cm.