The collection features a wide selection of
Irish portrait artists, Irish genre painters and Irish landscape artists, with works of portraiture by James Barry (1741 — 1806), Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740 — 1808), Sir John Lavery (1856 — 1941), Sir William Orpen (1878 - 1931); landscape painting by Roderic O'Conor (1860 — 1940), Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718 — 84); and genre scenes by Francis Danby (1793 — 1861), Walter Osborne (1859 — 1903), and William John Leech (1881 — 1968), to name but a few.
For details of portraiture, see:
Irish Portrait Artists.
For a review of portraiture in Ireland, see
Irish Portrait Artists.
Not exact matches
The
artist's work has been exhibited in monographic shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the National
Portrait Gallery, London, and the
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
2017 On Bodies: GMF x UNT, The Goss - Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas «The Critic as
Artist» curated by Michael Bracewell and Andrew Hunt, Reading Museum, London, UK ISelf Collection, Self -
Portrait as the Billy Goat, Whitechapel Gallery, London Dreamers Awake, curated by Susanna Greeves, White Cube, London, UK As Above, So Below: Portals, Vision, Spirits & Mystics,
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland The Ends of Collage: New York, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY The Ends of Collage: London, Luxembourg & Dayan, London, UK La Movida, HOME, Manchester, UK Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK Daughters of Penelope, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland
Limerick - based
artists founded Eva International in 1977 as a yearly event and it had the former National
Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairn as its first guest curator in 1979, followed by the
Irish critic Brian O'Doherty in 1980.
The new exhibition features 10 large - scale canvases alongside 5 unique
portraits in continuation of the themes first explored in the
Irish artist's 2012 solo exhibition Dead Meat (2012) and A Whole Lot of Trouble for a Little Bit of Win (2013).
Marsden Hartley's admiration for the folk paintings he encountered in the American Southwest comes across in
portraits that pay homage to their style, but the unvarnished directness and formal flatness of these late - career works also reflect
artists he may not have been aware of, such as Horace Pippin and the immigrant John Kane, born in Scotland to
Irish parents.
At first these
portraits by
Irish artist, Denise Nestor look simple, but then you begin to see her work with facial structure, cheek bones, and expression has us wanted to know what's inside the head
Among the 200 works of
Irish painting and
Irish sculpture it contains, are works by the renowned expressionist Jack B Yeats, the landscape and
portrait painter Charles Lamb and possibly the greatest twentieth century
Irish artist - Louis Le Brocquy.
See for example the regular pencil
portraits by
Irish artists Patrick Scott, Sarah Purser, Walter Osborne, and Patrick Leonard; the coloured pencil
portrait by Jim Allen; the pencil and watercolour
portraits by Jack B. Yeats, and Stephen McKenna.
Among famous
Irish artists associated with Sligo, are: Jack Butler Yeats, (Renowned Expressionist Painter); Patrick Collins, (Landscape and Figure Painter); Robert Gregory, (Landscape and
Portrait Artist); Casimir (Count) Markievicz, (
Portrait Artist); Constance (Countess) Markievicz, (nee Gore - Booth)(Watercolourist); Bernard McDonagh, (Landscape
Artist); Nick Miller, (Post Expressionist
Artist).
Bernadette MacCormick
Irish Artist: Biography, Paintings, Exhibitions, Collections:
Portrait Painter, Landscapes.
Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin Royal Academy (RA), London
Irish Art, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA Royal Society of
Portrait Painters (RSPP), London United Society of
Artists, London Represented Ireland, Expo «92, Seville Hendricks Gallery, New York, USA An Oireachteas Ulster Arts Club Cork Arts Society Tulfarris Gallery, Wicklow Munster Fine Art Exhibition Figurative Image Kenny Gallery, Galway IMMA, Glebe and Butler Galleries United Arts Club Group Taylor Galleries, Dublin Dolan Moore Gallery Trinity Gallery, London Austin Desmond Fine Art, London Fosse Gallery, London Swift Gallery, N. Ireland James Gallery, Dalkey Aer Rianta Arts Festival Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin Solomon Gallery, Dublin
BEST
IRISH ARTISTS For a list of the leading Irish painters, including exponents of realist portrait painting, see: Best Irish Art
IRISH ARTISTS For a list of the leading Irish painters, including exponents of realist portrait painting, see: Best Irish A
ARTISTS For a list of the leading
Irish painters, including exponents of realist portrait painting, see: Best Irish Art
Irish painters, including exponents of realist
portrait painting, see: Best
Irish Art
Irish ArtistsArtists.
The original building (6 — 8 John Adam Street) includes the Great Room, which features a magnificent sequence of paintings by
Irish artist James Barry titled The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture and
portraits of the Society's first and second presidents, painted by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds respectively.
The
Irish landscape
artist,
portrait and figure painter Charles Lamb was born in County Armagh.
The Mint Museum presents From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland, the first exhibition to explore the
artist's striking
Irish portraits, on view through 7 August 2011.
Tomas O'Maoldomhnaigh
Irish Figurative
Artist,
Portrait Painter: Contemporary Realist Style: Biography, Paintings.
The
Irish landscape
artist and
portrait painter Frank McKelvey was born in Belfast in 1895.
Famous
Irish artists born in, or associated with, Wicklow include: George Campbell, (Still Life and Landscape
Artist); Lilian Lucy Davidson, (Landscape,
Portrait and Genre Painter); Richard Kingston, (Landscape, Still Life and Flower Painter); Brian Maguire, (Expressionist Painter); Rasher (Mark Kavanagh)(Contemporary Figurative and Still Life Painter); Camille Souter, (Landscape
Artist); Michael Cullen, (Modern
Artist); Damien Flood, (Contemporary Pop
Artist); Brian Henderson, (Contemporary Abstract
Artist); John Jobson, (Painter and Sculptor); Cecil King, (Abstract
Artist); Eoin O'Connor, (Contemporary Abstract Painter); Laurence O'Toole, (Contemporary Figurative Painter, Landscape
Artist); Stanley Pettigrew, (Landscape
Artist and Illustrator); Yann Renard - Goulet, (Sculptor); Liam Treacy, (Impressionist Style Still Life and Landscape Painter); Mabel Young, (Landscape
Artist).
County Tyrone's most celebrated
artists include: Oliver Sheppard (
Irish Nationalist sculptor); Felim Egan, (Contemporary Abstract
Artist); Roy Lyndsay, (Landscape and Figure Paintings); Clement McAleer, (Abstract Painter working in Acrylics); Denis Orme Shaw, (Contemporary Painter); Victor Sloan, (Lens - based
Artist, Painter and Printmaker); Robert Ponsonby Staples, (
Portrait, Genre and Landscape Painter).