248 / 265
248
442
WilliamWyon, after Sir Joshua Reynolds marble plaque
A marble roundel depicting three children at play by William Wyon (1811-1885).
7_in. (18.42cm)
Estimate €200- €300 £140-£220
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 442443
George Prescott (d.1942) “I saw from the beach”
A watercolour of a two-masted sailing ship, beached at low tide.
George Prescott was a man of many and varied talents who died in December, 1942, having lived for almost a
century. He was an optical and scientific instrument maker, and an electrical engineer, when such disciplines
were in their infancy and built clocks that regulated the time-ball that was positioned on the Ballast Office on
Aston’s Quay in Dublin. These were linked to Dunsink Observatory was used to set mariner’s chronometers.
George was a painter and a talented musician who played the cello and amongst his many other accomplish-
ments, he played the organ in St. Michan’s Church in Dublin. During the 1920s, George produced Gilbert
and Sullivan Operas with the students of the Royal Irish Academy of Music in which he not only performed
and sang, but also painted the stage scenery.
14 x 21in. (35.56 x 53.34cm)
Estimate €200- €300 £140-£220
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 443