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Walter Frederick Osborne RHA ROI (1859-1903)
JOE THE SWINEHERD, 1890
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left
20 x 27in. (50.80 x 68.58cm)
Provenance:
Collection of the artist;
Thence by descent;
Private collection
Exhibited:
Royal Academy, London 1891 no. 613;
Autumn Exhibition, Liverpool, 1891, no. 1155, [40gns];
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1982, no. 87 [£31-10];
’Walter Osborne’, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1983;
Ulster Museum Belfast, 1985, no. 36
Literature:
Thomas Bodkin, Four Irish Landscape Painters, Dublin and London, 1920, Appendix XI, p.122;
Stephen Gwynn, Garden Wisdom, Dublin, 1921, p.30;
Jeanne Sheehy, Walter Osborne, Ballycotton 1974, as no. 234, p.125;
Jeanne Sheehy, Walter Osborne, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1983, catalogue no. 36, p.88 (illustrated)