James Sinton Sleator
As a student at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin James Sleator was a pupil of Sir William Orpen, but, like many others at the time, Orpen had an overbearing influence on him so that he never reached the heights he might otherwise have done. He is, however, one of the most important figures Margaret Clarke, Seαn Keating, Albert Power, Patrick Tuohy and Leo Whelan, were his contemporaries on the academic side of Irish painting of the years before the onslaught of American-inspired Modernism in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He was, too, with Paul Henry and Jack B. Yeats, one of the founding members in 1920 of the Society of Dublin Painters. In 1927 Sleator settled in London, where he worked with Orpen while also establishing his own practice as a portrait painter. This picture, Corner of the Studio, therefore, dates from these years. Although Orpen died in 1931, Sleator spent the rest of the decade in London before settling permanently in Dublin in 1941. During the thirties, however, he kept in touch with Ireland and often holidayed at Newcastle, Co. Down, with his friend T. G. Wilson...
(excerpt from catalogue essay)
Dr S. B. Kennedy,
Seaforde, March 2006
(excerpt from catalogue essay)
Dr S. B. Kennedy,
Seaforde, March 2006
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'CORNER OF THE STUDIO, 1930-31'
- Price Realised: 34,000
- Sale: 25 April 2006
- label inscribed by original owner on reverse
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH CYCLAMEN IN A VASE'
- Price Realised: 14,000
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- oil on board
- 70 by 53cm., 27.5 by 21in.
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'YOUNG WOMAN IN A FUR-COLLARED WRAP, circa 1914-16'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- oil on board
- 42 by 30cm., 16.5 by 12in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH FAN'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 17 September 2002
- oil on canvas
- 46 by 36cm., 18 by 14in.
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'PORTRAIT OF JUDGE JAMES SEALY AT ST. MARGARET'S, DONNYBROOK, DUBLIN, c.1930'
- Price Realised: 1,250
- Sale: 29 May 2017
- oil on canvas
- 35½ x 29½in. (90.17 x 74.93cm)