Important Irish Art 30 November 2015

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John Mansfield Crealock RHA (1871-1959)

PORTRAIT OF A LADY WITH CHINOISERIE, 1920

oil on canvas

signed lower right; signed and dated on reverse; with inscribed exhibition label on reverse detailing artist’s address [1

Avenue Studio, 76 Fulham Road]

44 x 34in. (111.76 x 86.36cm)

Probably exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 1920, as catalogue no. 1

John Mansfield Crealock was born in Dublin John North Crealock and Marion Lloyd Crealock. He was educated at The

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Surrey and after serving for the British army he travelled to Paris to study at the

Académie Julian from 1901-4. In England he showed with the RA from 1908 as well as the Goupil Gallery, New England

Art Club and with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters to which he was elected a member in 1918. He exhibited with

the RHA, Dublin, between 1910 and 1917, with addresses recorded in Chelsea, London. Although the title of the present

work is unknown, Crealock adopted James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s (1834-1903) method of titling his portraits of

elegant women in lavish interior settings according to their colour arrangement as opposed to the names of the sitters,

for example ‘The Yellow Sofa’ shown at the RHA exhibition 1914, catalogue no. 94.

€2500-€3500 (£1800-£2520 approx.)

IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 30 November 2015