Richard Staunton Cahill
Born in Co. Clare, the eldest child of Charles Staunton Cahill JP, Richard S. Cahill entered the Royal Hibernian Academys school in 1850. The next year he began exhibiting at the RHA, showing a further two dozen works there in the following years, the last in 1900. www.whytes.ie Strickland records he moved to London in 1853, but records of the societies with which he exhibited, including the RA and the RBA, reveal a peripatetic existence, teaching for a period at Nottingham School of Art and changing studios frequently. The titles of his paintings also reveal visits home to his family in Clare and Galway, eg. Leaving a Country Chapel, West of Ireland (RHA 1881), A Galway Boy (RBA 1865), and On the Golf Links at Lahinch (RHA 1896). He died 7 July 1904. www.whytes.ie
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'FARMHAND and AN UILLEANN PIPER, 1877 (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- watercolour over pencil on paper
- 36 by 23cm., 14 by 9in.
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'A SMALL WAGER, 1860'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- oil on canvas
- 46 by 36cm., 18 by 14in.
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'AN UNWELCOME CALLER, 1868'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 07 December 2020
- oil on canvas
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'GOLFER AT LAHINCH, COUNTY CLARE, 1896'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 28 November 2022
- watercolour
- 14 x 10in. (35.56 x 25.40cm)
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'DONNYBROOK - MORNING and DONNYBROOK - EVENING (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 25 May 2020
- oil on board; (2)
- 12 x 8Όin. (30.48 x 20.96cm)