WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 26 FEBRUARY 2018

118 Richard Brydges Beechey ARHA (1808-1895) “COVE” 1844 watercolour signed and dated lower right; with copy of inscription on reverse 10.25 by 17in. (26 by 43.2cm) Note verso reads: “Cove / As you approach from the Cork Road - (House on the left) Richard B. Beechey. 1843.” Cove, a port near Cork City, was renamed Queenstown in honour of Queen Victoria, in 1849. It was renamed Cobh in 1920. The son of Sir William Beechey RA, Richard Brydges Beechey was a captain and later Admiral of the Royal Navy, who was also an accomplished painter on marine subjects and a regular exhibitor at the RHA Dublin where he was made an Honorary Member in 1868. He also exhibited nineteen works at the Royal Academy, thirteen at the British Institution 7 at the Society of British Artists. In the 1840s he was stationed near Limerick, engaged in surveying the River Shannon. During this period, he produced a number of detailed, topographical drawings and what Crookshank and Glin describe as “extremely competent watercolours, including two of Askeaton Castle” (The Watercolours of Ireland, 1994, page 170). Also in 1840s he married Frideswide Maria Smyth of Portlick Castle, County Westmeath. After his retirement from the Navy in 1864 he settled in Monkstown, and later in Pembroke Road, Dublin. In 1888, some three years after the death of his first wife, Richard married Frances, daughter of the Rev. Annesley Stewart of Trinity College, Dublin. €2,000-€3,000 (£1,430-£2,140 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 118