WHYTES
SINCE 1783
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Andrew Nicholl RHA
(1804-1886)
MALLARDS IN FLIGHT
watercolour with bodycolour
and sgraffito
signed lower left
14 by 23in. (36 by 58cm)
Provenance:
Whyte’s, 28 November 2006,
lot 114;
Whence purchased by the
present owner
€
2,000-
€
3,000
(£1,650-£2,480 approx.)
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Edmond Delrenne
(Belgian,
fl.
1915-18)
DUBLIN 1916 INCLUDING A VIEW OF THE
IRISH REPUBLIC FLAG OVER THE G.P.O.,
SACKVILLE STREET (A PAIR)
pastel; (2)
signed and inscribed [Dublin] and dated
lower left
6 by 9½in. (15 by 23cm)
Dimensions of second work, 5.75 by 8.5in.
Edmond Delrenne was a Belgian refugee who
arrived in Dublin circa 1914 and remained here
throughout the First World War. He exhibited four
war scenes at the RHA in 1915 and 1916, giving
his address as care of Dermod O’Brien, at whose
home in Cahirmoyle, Co. Limerick, he stayed for a
period. According to Dermod O’Brien’s son, Dr
Brendan O’Brien, Delrenne was in Dublin at the
time of the 1916 Easter Rising and witnessed a
man beside him killed by a stray bullet (see
Adrian le Harivel and Michael Wynne (ed.s),
National Gallery of Ireland Acquisitions 1982-
1983
, NGI, Dublin, 1984). One of Delrenne’s
watercolours is in the collection of the National
Gallery (NGI 18,486), whilst an oil painting of his
sold with Whyte’s, 9 April 2006, lot 128, and later,
two watercolours of Dublin dated 1916 also sold
through Whyte’s on 30 April 2007, lot 102.
€
3,000-
€
5,000 (£2,480-£4,130 approx.)
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