Stephen Catterson-Smith Jnr
Stephen Catterson Smith was named after his father, a prominent Irish portrait painter and President of the RHA. Upon his father’s death in 1872, he inherited Catterson Smith Senior’s flourishing portrait business and thenceforth showed over 150 portraits at the annual RHA exhibitions. www.whytes.ie He also painted regularly in Scotland and both Scottish and Irish landscapes were regularly exhibited at the Academy. Judging by the titles of works such as On the Liffey (RHA, 1899, no. 153 and RHA, 1900, no. 218) and the River Lee, Co. Cork (RHA, 1901, no. 211), riverside scenes were favoured.
