WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART MONDAY 26 May 2025 FROM 6PM

34 It is impossible to know where this scene is, but it is no doubt in Connemara. There is fairly heavy impasto in many areas throughout, especially in the sky, distant mountains and landscape. This is also true of the foreground turf stacks, which stand out in their darkness. The immediate foreground, with its water-strewn landscape shows Paul Henry’s consummate skill with such a scene. West of Ireland Bog is numbered 1321 in S. B. Kennedy’s catalogue of Paul Henry’s oeuvre. Dr. S.B. Kennedy August 2017 The previous owner was Dr Norah Hamilton (1896-1961), a consultant anaesthetist to Sunderland Area Hospital Group. She was born in Edinburgh of Irish-Scots parentage. The painting was bequeathed to a fellow anaesthetist and friend, who in turn gifted it to his children.