Robert Richard Scanlan

Scanlan was an Irish artist who spent much of his career in England, particularly London and Plymouth, returning periodically to Dublin. He was Headmaster of the Cork School of Design for three years, from 1853. Several of his works were reproduced as lithographs, particularly his comic sketches of horse derbies.In the words of Crookshank and Glin, Scanlan was “a highly competent and very lively artist”, known for his large output of comic drawings, many of which were later engraved and published in a volume titled Barney Bryan’s Sketchbooks. Other works to be engraved included his well-known Donnybrook to Dublin and Drogheda to Dundalk car driving scenes. See also Strickland, Vol.II, pp. 324-325. A regular exhibitor at the RA and the RHA, he showed mainly portraits in watercolour, but genre studies also appeared on occasion, such as The Italian Boy and The Itinerant Boy with his Dog, both of which were exhibited at the RBA in 1832.

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'THE DONKEY DERBY: THE START and THE SWEEP FINISHES FIRST! (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: €4,400
- Sale: 30 November 2004
- watercolour with pen and ink
- 27 by 38cm., 10.5 by 15in.
'ORGAN GRINDER AND MONKEY, 1858'
- Price Realised: €1,400
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper
- 34 by 25cm., 13.5 by 9.75in.
'A DAPPLED GREY HUNTER IN A STABLE'
- Price Realised: €1,100
- Sale: 19 September 2006
- watercolour over pencil
- 30 by 38cm., 12 by 15in.
'DONNYBROOK TO DUBLIN and DROGHEDA TO DUNDALK (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: €1,050
- Sale: 05 April 2008
- antique steel engravings with later hand colouring
- 36 by 48cm., 14 by 18.7 5in.
'THE CADGER BEATING ROBIN WOOD, 1846'
- Price Realised: €1,000
- Sale: 06 December 2008
- watercolour, with pen and ink, heightened with white
- 23 by 36cm., 9 by 14in.
'THE SLEEPING PARTNER'
- Price Realised: €900
- Sale: 30 November 2015
- oil on panel
- 11½ x 14½in. (29.21 x 36.83cm)
'PORTRAIT OF A LADY, SEATED WITH AN OPEN BOOK ON HER LAP'
- Price Realised: €850
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- watercolour and bodycolour
- 25 by 20cm., 10 by 8in.
'A DAY OF LABOUR! (PLOUGH AND HORSES)'
- Price Realised: €584
- Sale: 26 June 2000
- pencil, watercolour, heightened with white
- 17 by 25cm., 6.75 by 9.75in.
'MAN SEATED ON A ROADSIDE WITH CANE AND BEGGING CAP, 1855'
- Price Realised: €550
- Sale: 10 October 2011
- watercolour
- 36 by 28cm., 14 by 11in.
'MY BOOK OF CUR'S (NOS. 1-7), 1840'
- Price Realised: €480
- Sale: 13 December 2021
- lithographs; (36 plates)
- 15 x 12in. (38.10 x 30.48cm)
'HORSE AND MILITARY FIGURE, 1843'
- Price Realised: €290
- Sale: 13 December 2023
- watercolour
- 14½ x 18¼in. (36.83 x 46.36cm)