Henry Brooke, who was born at

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

in 1738, painted historical subjects in London from 1761 till 1767, when he returned to Dublin where he died in 1806. He was the father of painter

William Henry Brooke William Henry Brooke (1772–1860) was a British artist and illustrator. Life He was the son of the painter Henry Brooke and a nephew of Henry Brooke, the author of ''A Fool of Quality''. He was a pupil of Samuel Drummond, and worked as a por ...

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* 1738 births 1806 deaths Painters from Dublin (city) 18th-century Irish painters 19th-century Irish painters Irish male painters 19th-century Irish male artists {{Ireland-painter-stub