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Sarah Purser: the woman who built Irish art's i...
A failed flour mill turned her professional. She then founded the stained-glass studio, the Friends of the National Collections, and secured the Hugh Lane a building.
Sarah Purser: the woman who built Irish art's i...
A failed flour mill turned her professional. She then founded the stained-glass studio, the Friends of the National Collections, and secured the Hugh Lane a building.
Frederic William Burton: the man who stopped pa...
He painted Ireland's favourite painting, then took charge of the National Gallery in London and never picked up a brush again.
Frederic William Burton: the man who stopped pa...
He painted Ireland's favourite painting, then took charge of the National Gallery in London and never picked up a brush again.
Walter Osborne: the painter who said no
Offered a knighthood in 1900, he turned it down. Three years later he was dead at 43, having painted the best record we have of ordinary Dublin.
Walter Osborne: the painter who said no
Offered a knighthood in 1900, he turned it down. Three years later he was dead at 43, having painted the best record we have of ordinary Dublin.
John Butler Yeats: the painter who could never ...
He abandoned the Bar for painting, drew the whole Irish Literary Revival, and spent his last eleven years on a self-portrait he never completed.
John Butler Yeats: the painter who could never ...
He abandoned the Bar for painting, drew the whole Irish Literary Revival, and spent his last eleven years on a self-portrait he never completed.
William Orpen: the Irish painter who walked awa...
The best draughtsman Ireland produced in his generation painted the rich, then painted the Somme, then destroyed his own Versailles commission.
William Orpen: the Irish painter who walked awa...
The best draughtsman Ireland produced in his generation painted the rich, then painted the Somme, then destroyed his own Versailles commission.
John Lavery: the Belfast orphan who painted the...
Orphaned at three in north Belfast, he ended up painting kings, the Treaty delegates, and the portrait of his wife on the Irish Free State's Series A banknotes.
John Lavery: the Belfast orphan who painted the...
Orphaned at three in north Belfast, he ended up painting kings, the Treaty delegates, and the portrait of his wife on the Irish Free State's Series A banknotes.