Henry Edward Doyle
CB (1827 – 17 February 1893) was an
Irish
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painter and draughtsman, and for 23 years the director of the
National Gallery of Ireland
The National Gallery of Ireland ( ga, Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on ...
.
Life
Doyle was the third son of
John Doyle (author of the "H. B." political sketches) and Marianne, daughter of Mr. James Conan, of
Dublin
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. He was born in 1827, and educated as an artist. On the recommendation of
Cardinal Wiseman
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Born ...
, he was appointed Commissioner for Rome at the
1862 International Exhibition
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in London, and for his services in that capacity was nominated a Knight of the
Order of Pius IX
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He was Art Superintendent of the International Exhibition of 1865, in Dublin; and honorary secretary of the National Portrait Gallery in connection with that of 1872. in the same city. He was elected by the Board of Governors Director of the
National Gallery of Ireland
The National Gallery of Ireland ( ga, Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on ...
, in 1869 on the death of
George Francis Mulvany
George Francis Mulvany (1809 – 1869) was an Irish painter and the first director of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Biography
George Francis Mulvany was the son of Thomas James Mulvany, a painter and the RHA's keeper.
George Francis Mulv ...
, R.H.A., the first holder of that office. He was also a member of the Committee of Advice for the three special exhibitions of national portraits from 1866 to 1868, and he was a member of the
Royal Hibernian Academy
The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823. Like many other Irish institutions, such as the RIA, the academy retained the word "Royal" after most of Ireland became in ...
.
During his twenty-three years' incumbency of the directorship of the Irish National Gallery, he raised that collection from insignificance to a more than respectable place among the minor galleries of Europe, and that in spite of extreme parsimony on the part of the treasury.
In 1880 he was nominated a Companion of the
Order of the Bath
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. He died suddenly on 17 February 1892.
Family
On 6 February 1866 he married Jane Isabella Ball, daughter of the Right Hon.
Nicholas Ball, one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas (Ireland)
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and Jane Sherlock,
and the sister of
John Ball at St. James' Church, Spanish-place, London. The ceremony was performed by Jane's brother, the Rev. Anthony Ball. His nephew was the author Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
.
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1827 births
1893 deaths
19th-century Irish painters
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Companions of the Order of the Bath
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Knights of the Order of Pope Pius IX
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