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List Of Irish Painters
This is a list of notable painters from, or associated with, Ireland. A * Henry Allan (1865–1912) * William Ashford (1746–1824) B * Francis Bacon (1909–1992) * Robert Ballagh (born 1943) * John James Barralet (1747–1815) * George Barret, Sr. (1730–1784) * William Gerard Barry (1864–1941) * Rose Maynard Barton (1856–1929) * Richard Brydges Beechey (1808–1859) * Pauline Bewick (born 1935) * Francis Bindon (c. 1690–1765) * Brian Bourke (born 1936) * Gretta Bowen (1880–1981) * John Boyne (c. 1750–1810) * Charles Brady (1926–1997) * Muriel Brandt (1909–1981) * James Brenan (1837–1907) * Henry Brocas (1762–1837) * Louis le Brocquy (1916–2012) * Henry Brooke (1738–1806) * Christy Brown (1932–1981) * Adam Buck (1759–1833) * Augustus Nicholas Burke (1838–1891) * Thomas Burke (1749–1815) * Frederick William Burton (1816–1900) * Mildred Anne Butler (1858–1941) * John Butts (died 1764) C * George Campbell (1917–1979) * Niccolo d'A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Allan (painter)
Henry Allan (18 June 1865 – 2 September 1912) was an Irish people, Irish Painting, painter. He was born at Retreat House, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, the youngest son of William and Anne Allan. He studied art in Belfast and Dublin, and continued his art education in Antwerp, alongside contemporary Richard Moynan. He won multiple prizes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp Academy as well as the Taylor Prize at the Royal Dublin Society. The gallery's website notes that the style of this work, shows the influence of his training in Antwerp with influences from the Hague School. Early life and family Early life in Ireland Henry Allan was born 18 June 1865 at Retreat House, Dundalk, County Louth, Co. Louth. He was the youngest son of William and Anne Allan. William Allan was a distiller in Bachelor’s Walk in Dundalk, while Anne Allan was the daughter of Rev. Solomon Browne, who was a Presbyterian minister in Castledawson in County Londonderry. Allan b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Brocas
Henry Brocas (1762/1765 – 2 November 1837) was an Irish artist known for his landscapes. Life Henry Brocas was born in Dublin in 1762 or 1765. The Brocas family descended from an Englishman, Robert Brocas, who came to Ireland from Derbyshire during the Cromwellian reign as a cornet of horse. Brocas was the fifth son of Robert and Bridget Brocas (née Taylor). His mother was from Wexford. His older brother, James, was also an artist. Between 1795 and 1799 he lived at 9 Gordon Lane, moving to 34 Grafton Street, and later in 1804 to 19 Chatham Street. He later settled in 15 Henry Street from 1825. Artistic career He was a self-taught artist, working in watercolour and oils, and was also a prolific engraver. His engravings featured portraits, caricatures, and topographical views which were published in Dublin periodicals and magazines. One of his early political caricatures appeared in ''Exshaw's Magazine'' in 1784 entitled ''The loves of the fox and the badger''. He also pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cassidy (artist)
John Cassidy (1 January 1860 – 19 July 1939) was an Irish sculptor and painter who worked in Manchester, England, and created many public sculptures. Life Cassidy was born in Littlewood Commons, Slane, County Meath, Ireland, on 1 January 1860. He moved to Dublin at the age of 20 to find work. There he attended art classes at night and won a scholarship to study in Milan, Italy. After two years, he moved to Manchester, England, where he lived for the rest of his life. He studied at the Manchester School of Art in 1883 and taught there in 1887. He created many public sculptures, especially war memorials, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Hibernian Academy and in Manchester City Art Gallery. He was for a time assisted in his studios by John Ashton Floyd, a local sculptor. For most of his career, his studio was at Lincoln Grove in Chorlton-on-Medlock. Works The body of Cassidy's work consisted mainly of memorials and statues. In 1894, the philanthropist Enriqueta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Carver (painter)
Robert Carver (c. 1730 – 1791) was an Irish painter, who worked as a painter of theatre scenery as well as painting framed works. Carver was one of the leading landscape painters in the second half of eighteenth century Ireland. Life Robert Carver was born in Dublin circa 1730. His father was Richard Carver (died 1754), who was a landscape and history painter born in Waterford. Carver was initially trained by his father, and later studied under Robert West at West's school on George's Lane, Dublin. During his early career, Carver's address was at Lazar's Hill, Dublin. Carver was married to Anne Jolly. Their only known child was a son, John Carver, who died in 1766. Carver suffered from gout for a number of years. Carver died of pneumonia on 14 November 1791 at his home at 13 Bow Street, Covent Garden. He is buried at the churchyard of St Paul's, Covent Garden. Career He began exhibiting watercolours in Dublin, which were well received. In a Cork theatre, Carver p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolo D'Ardia Caracciolo
Niccolo d'Ardia Caracciolo RHA (1941 – 1989), known as Niccolo or Nick Caracciolo, was an Ireland, Irish artist known for his portraits and landscapes. Early life and family Born in Dublin on 18 September 1941, he was the only son of Ferdinando Caracciolo, Prince of Cursi, a member of an old Italian family, originally from Naples. His mother was Mary Purcell-Fitzgerald of The Island, near Waterford, now Waterford Castle, where he was reared. The artist Maria Levinge is his sister, who he tutored in art. He had another sister, Francesca. After being educated at The Oratory School in Woodcote, England, he went to Florence at the age of 19 to study art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze at the suggestion of Pietro Annigoni, studying under Nerina Simi, Signorina Nera Simi. He continued to keep a house in Tuscany for the rest of his life, travelling back and forth to Ireland. Career In 1964 Caracciolo was one of the painters chosen to paint a replica of the Sistine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Campbell (painter)
(Frederick) George Campbell (29 July 1917 – 18 May 1979) was an Irish artist and writer. Though he grew up in Belfast, Campbell spent much of his adult life living and painting in Spain and Dublin, Ireland. Life George Campbell was born in Arklow, County Wicklow,Kate NewmanFrederick George Campbell (1917 - 1979) ''Dictionary of Ulster Biography''. Accessed 12 January 2013. the son of Gretta Bowen (1880-1981) and Matthew Campbell (1866-1925). He attended boarding school in Dublin (Masonic Orphan Boys’ School at Clonskeagh) before moving to Belfast to live with his widowed mother and family. Campbell was working in an aircraft factory at the time of the Belfast Blitz, and began to paint, taking the bomb-damage as his subject. He was one of the founders of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1943. In the same year along with his brother Arthur (1909-1994) he published a sixteen page book entitled ''Ulster in Black and White'', that included drawings from the two brothers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Butts (painter)
John Butts (circa 1728 - 1764/5) was an Irish landscape painter, specialising in woodland and river scenes. Life Butts was born around 1728 and was educated in Cork, Ireland. He received his training from Rogers, one of the earliest recorded Irish landscape painters, and who was described in multiple sources as the "father of landscape painting in Ireland". He painted landscapes somewhat in the style of Claude Lorrain, and worked as an art teacher, his pupils in Cork including James Barry and Nathaniel Grogan. In around 1757, at the age of about 30, he moved to Dublin, where he continued to work as a landscape and figure painter, and was also employed as a scene-painter at the Crow Street Theatre and Smock Alley Theatre. He spent much of his life in poverty, and struggled to support his large family. Owing to his alleged alcoholism, Butts painted copies of alehouse scenes which he sold cheaply, along with also doing coach panels and sign painting. It is believed that he also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Anne Butler
Mildred Anne Butler (11 January 1858 – 11 October 1941) was an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects. Butler was born and spent most of her life in Kilmurry, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and was associated with the Newlyn School of painters. Mildred Anne's en plein air style is dominated by the theme of nature and reflects scenes of domesticity around the family home in Kilmurry. She achieved distinction in her lifetime and exhibited in major galleries in Ireland and England. Among her patrons were Queen Mary of Teck and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. She became a member of the Royal Academy in 1893. In 1896, Butler's ''Morning Bath'' was exhibited at the Royal Academy. It was the first work by a female artist to be purchased by the trustees of the Chantrey Bequest and was then presented to the Tate. She became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1896 and was granted full membership in 1937. She was on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Burton
Sir Frederic William Burton (8 April 1816 in Wicklow – 16 March 1900 in London) was an Irish painter who was born in County Wicklow and taken by his parents to live in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland at the age of six. He was the third son of Samuel Frederick Burton and his wife, Hanna Mallett. The old Burton seat was Clifden House, Corofin, County Clare, which was built around the middle of the eighteenth century. The artist's grandparents were Major Edward William Burton, Clifden, who was High Sheriff of Clare in 1799, and his wife, Jane Blood of the nearby townland of Roxton, County Clare. Sir Frederick was the third director of the National Gallery (London), National Gallery, London. Biography Artistic career Educated in Dublin, he was elected an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy at age 21, and an academician two years later. In 1842, he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy. A visit to Germany and Bavaria in 1842 was the first of a long series of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Burke (artist)
Thomas Burke (1749 – 31 December 1815) was an Irish engraver and painter. Life Born in Dublin in 1749, Burke first trained in the Dublin Society's Schools under Robert West, moving in 1770 to London where he studied mezzotint under John Dixon. Though he may have moved to London with Dixon as early as 1765. He adopted the chalk method popularised by Bartolozzi, continuing to use both styles. Most of Burke's mezzotints were engraved after Angelica Kauffman for William Wynne Ryland, who taught him the stipple engraving technique. After 1775, Burke worked primarily by engraving in stipple, giving his work depth and richness. Burke preferred to work for publishers and seldom issued prints himself. His engravings typically featured subject pictures.Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press, Inc. Retrieved Nov. 30, 2007. The first engraving he did after Kauffman was ''Queen Charlotte Raising the Genius of the Fine Arts'' (1772). From 1775 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Nicholas Burke
Augustus Joseph Nicholas Burke (28 July 1838 – 1891) was an Irish artist and an Academician of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). Early life Burke was born into the Galway Burkes of Glinsk and was the sixth son of William Burke of Knocknagur, Tuam, Co. Galway. He was born at Waterslade House in the town. One of his brothers was Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet of Glinsk, while another brother was Thomas Henry Burke (Irish Politician), Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office. Career He showed an early interest in drawing, displaying a love for depicting the people and land of Connemara. His career in the arts was initiated at the Royal Academy in London. He would exhibit at the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy, from 1863 until his death, where he was also Professor of Painting. From 1870 to 1872 he resided in the Netherlands where he illustrated a handful of Dutch scenes. One of the earliest Irish artists to travel to Brittany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Buck
Adam Buck (1759–1833) was an Irish neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter and engraver (as was his brother Frederick) principally active in London. Life Buck was born in Castle Street, Cork. Becoming an accomplished miniaturist in the 1780s while still in Ireland, he made a permanent move to London in 1795 – his residences there included 174 Piccadilly (1795–8), Frith Street, Soho (1799–1802) and Bentinck Street (1813–20). His patrons included Angelica Catalani (an opera singer), JP Kemble, Sir Francis Burdett, Thomas Hope, George IV, the duke of York and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke. A major influence on Regency culture (producing plates of contemporary costume as well as genre pictures of family and classical scenes and illustrations for Laurence Sterne's '' Sentimental Journey''), he was himself much influenced by the Greek Revival (the furniture, vases - which he collected -, sculptures, costumes and even hairstyles in his works are all ancient Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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