WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 26 SEPTEMBER 2016

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IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 26 SEPTEMBER 2016 AT 6PM
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Attributed to Nicholas Crowley (1819-1857)
PORTRAIT OF JOAN, WIFE OF JAMES POWER, OLDCOURT, WATERFORD [1850]
oil on canvas; (2)
inscribed and dated verso; second portrait with sitter’s name and date on reverse
36 x 28in. (91.44 x 71.12cm)
Provenance:
Collection of the sitter;
Thence by family descent to the previous owner;
From whom acquired by the present owner
The second portrait which accompanies this lot pertains to the same family collection and depicts Master
Jemmy Power as ‘The Red Boy’ [1869]. For an image of this second portrait see
Nicholas Joseph Crowley was an Irish genre and portrait painter. Born in Dublin in 1819, he became a
student at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1832. He first exhibited there the following year and his works
continued to appear almost every year until his death. Crowley was elected a member in 1837. That same
year Crowley moved to London where he became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy.
Most of Crowley’s known works are listed in Strickland (pp.236-239) among them two portraits of
Waterford actor William Grattan Tyrone Power (1795-1841) from Kilmacthomas executed in 1840 and
1845.
€3000-€5000 (£2560-£4270 approx.)