Stanley Pettigrew (1927 – 15 September 2022) was an Irish

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Early life

Pettigrew was born in the Andes of Chile, the son of a mining engineer whose Scottish family had settled in

Sligo Sligo ( ; ga, Sligeach , meaning 'abounding in shells') is a coastal seaport and the county town of County Sligo, Ireland, within the western province of Connacht. With a population of approximately 20,000 in 2016, it is the List of urban areas ...

a generation earlier. His mother was a Blennerhassett from Tralee,

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, the family's ancestry traces back to the Huguenots, driven out of France in the 16th century. He returned to Ireland with his family in 1930.

Career

Stanley went to school in

and was originally interested in carpentry. He met a painter, Jim Heuston, who developed Pettigrew's interest in landscape painting. Like Paul Henry, he was attracted to the cloud formations and reflective water of Sligos seascape. In 1944 Pettigrew enrolled at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, initially to study history and later divinity. He worked as a

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

in Newcastle, giving him the opportunity to paint with Tom Carr. In 1954 he married Vera Brownell, known for her children's books. He lived in Wicklow from 1957, exhibiting at the Wicklow Painters Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Pettigrew died in Limerick on 15 September 2022, aged 95.

References

External links

Stanley Pettigrew Website & Permanent Online Exhibition
1927 births 2022 deaths Artists from County Sligo 20th-century Irish painters 21st-century Irish painters Irish male painters Irish people of Scottish descent Irish people of French descent Irish expatriates in Chile 20th-century Irish male artists Alumni of Trinity College Dublin {{Ireland-painter-stub