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16 5 Frank McKelvey RHA RUA (1895-1974) FAIR DAY, ROUNDSTONE, COUNTY GALWAY c.1959 oil on canvas signed lower left; titled on label on reverse 20 by 24in. (50.8 by 61cm) Frame Size: 25 by 29in. (63.5 by 73.7cm) Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1959, catalogue no. 9 Landscape and portrait painter Frank McKelvey attended the Belfast School of Art where he won the Sir Charles Brett prize for figure drawing in 1912. He won immediate recognition in Dublin for his landscapes and his work was hung at the RHA. From 1918 until 1973 he acquired the remarkable record of never missing a year at the RHA, showing from three to eight works annually. He was made a full member of the RHA in 1930 and was one of the first Academicians of the Royal Ulster Academy. McKelvey painted a series of market or fair day scenes in the latter part of his career. During the 1930s he had painted the subject on rare occasions (for an example of such see plate 19, Market Scene circa 1935- 36, in S. B. Kennedy, Frank McKelvey, RHA, RUA: A Painter in His Time, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1993), but in the last fifteen years of his life he exhibited seven market scenes at the RHA including the present work and Fair Day, Creeslough, Co. Donegal (1965), Cattle Fair (1971) and Fair Day (1973). €15,000-€20,000 (£12,820-£17,090 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot5