WHYTE'S IRISH ART 28 MAY 2018

IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 28 MAY 2018 AT 6PM 20 Richard Brydges Beechey ARHA (1808-1895) VIEWS OF THE SKELLIG ISLANDS (A PAIR) oil on board; (2) each signed with initials lower right 7 by 10in. (17.8 by 25.4cm) A number of Kerry scenes were exhibited by the artist at the RHA, Dublin including Upper Lake, Killarney (1873), Macgillycuddy’s Reeks (1876) and The Great Skellig (1883) . The Skelligs’ Great Skellig (Sceilig Mhichil) is recorded as owned by the Commissioners of Irish Lights. A larger version of the present example showing stormy seas was exhibited as Currachs and Kerry Hookers Fishing off Dingle, 1872 (oil on canvas laid on board; 76.5 by 111) was exhibited with the Gorry Gallery, Dublin from 30 November to 13 December 1990. 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 pro- duced a number of detailed, topographical drawings and what Crookshank and Glin describe as ‘extremely compe- tent 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 (£1,750-£2,630 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 20