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Aloysius C. O’Kelly (1853-1936)
MOTHER AND CHILD
oil on canvas
16 by 12in. (40.64 by 30.48cm)
Provenance:
Family of the artist
O’Kelly loved painting children and did so throughout his artistic career.
Charming Irish, English, French, North African and American children
recur in his work.There are thus examples in all phases and styles of his
long career, executed in a Realist mode in Ireland and England,
Naturalist in France and America and Orientalist in North Africa. Many
include a maternal figure, sitting by a window and engrossed in sewing,
knitting or tatting.This painting would appear to be an early work,
before he came under the influence of Jules Bastien-Lepage in Brittany
in the early 1880s.
Professor Niamh O’Sullivan, Dublin, October 2014
Inaugural Curator, Great Hunger Museum, Hamden, Connecticut (USA)
and Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture, National College of Art and
Design, Dublin, author of Aloysius O’Kelly: Art, Nation, Empire, Field Day
Publications, 2010.
€
2,000-
€
3,000 (£1,600-£2,400 approx)
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Richard Thomas Moynan RHA (1856-1906)
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
oil on canvas
17 by 13in. (43.18 by 33.02cm)
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist’s family by the previous owner;
Thence by descent
€
2,000-
€
3,000 (£1,600-£2,400 approx)