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James Humbert Craig (1877-1944) In County Mayo (n.d.). This is one of many paintings executed by the Belfast native in the west of Ireland. Born to a tea merchant father and a Swiss mother - Marie Metzenin - Craig painted rural panoramas steeped in colour, light and shade
Edwin Hayes (1819-1904) Seascape and Storm (n.d.). Hayes was one of the great marine painters of his day and lived his youth in Dublin, where his father was a hotelier. Painted boats and ships on the high seas off Ireland and continental Europe. He loved a good storm
Paul Henry (1876-1958) West of Ireland Cottages (c.1926-30). Born in Belfast, Henry was the great artistic chronicler of the west of Ireland. Sometimes working off drawings it is difficult to date some of his work. Always unique, and instantly recognisable.
John Lavery (1856-1941) The Gap of Dunloe (1924). On a drive around Ireland Lavery stopped in Kerry and, between torrential rain showers, captured the kingdom's shifting light and summer colour. His ambition of putting together a landscape collection was thwarted by the weather.
This week I’m in the Balkans. Today, at the Salvador Dali exhibition: Zadar, Croatia
Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917) St. George’s Head, Kilkee (1890). While many of Hone’s landscapes and seascapes depicted stillness, his west of Ireland pieces responded to the energy the painter experienced by the shores of the great Atlantic. Ireland’s greatest painter of weather.
Edwin Hayes (1819-1904) Dutch Boat off Broadstairs (1868). Hayes was one of the great marine painters of his day and lived his youth in Dublin, where his father was a hotelier. Painted boats and ships on the high seas off the coasts of Ireland, England, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
@adofla This is the nature of the art world. Some paintings ‘go misssing’ and then show up again years later, from the strangest and greatest locations ... (Jack B. Yeats’ Sleep Sound) https://t.co/q9PPszpLij
Nathaniel Hone (1831-1917) St. George’s Head, Kilkee (n.d.). The great Atlantic was something of a muse for Hone, who spent much time in west Clare from 1890 onwards. Undoubtedly influenced by Gustave Courbet, whose ‘wave’ paintings has been executed while Hone was in France.
Mary Swanzy (1882-1978) Clown by Candlelight (c.1940s). The after-show quiet of the performer is revealed in one of Swanzy's later, enigmatic pieces, darker in tone that the early futurist work for which she is also known. One of the great Irish twentieth century painters.