WHYTE'S IMPORTANT IRISH ART MONDAY 27 MAY 2019 AT 6PM

IMPORTANT IRISH ART · 27 MAY AT 6PM 29 Sir William Orpen RA RI RHA (1878-1931) PORTRAIT OF LEE HANKEY pencil signed lower left; with typed Southgate Gallery label on reverse 8 by 6in. (20.3 by 15.2cm) Provenance: Southgate Gallery, Wolverhampton; Private collection An impromptu sketch at a dinner party, drawn on the reverse of a dinner menu. William Lee Hankey (1869–1952) RWS RI ROI RE NS was a British painter and book illustrator. He specialised in landscapes, character studies and portraits of pastoral life, particularly in studies of mothers with young children. Hankey’s black and white and coloured etchings of the people of Étaples, gained him a reputation as ‘one of the most gifted of the figurative printmakers working in original drypoint during the first thirty years of the 20th century’ €1,500-€2,000 (£1,290-£1,720 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 29