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William Eric Horsbrugh-Porter (1905-1985)
WINTER BERRIES
oil on canvas board; (unframed)
signed with initials lower right; titled and with artist’s details on reverse
12 x 16in. (30.48 x 40.64cm)
Provenance:
Collection of George & Maura McClelland
Horsbrugh-Porter, a native of Dalkey Co. Dublin, attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art
before continuing his education at the renowned Slade School, London, where he held both the Slade
Scholarship and the Robert Ross Scholarship. In 1928 he collaborated with his friend, the London
born artist Stephen Bone, painting murals for Piccadilly Underground; the pair also shared a flat in
Knightsbridge. From 1926 to 1974 he showed more than forty works at the Royal Hibernian Academy,
including Wild Roses in 1972, his second penultimate exhibition in the RHA prior to his death in 1985.
€150-€250 (£140-£230 approx.)
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