JAMES ARTHUR O'CONNOR (1792-1841)
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"Figure in a Landscape with Waterfall" |
| COUNTRY OF ORIGIN |
Ireland
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| DATED |
c. 1821 |
| ARTIST |
JAMES ARTHUR O'CONNOR (1792-1841)
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| MEDIUM |
Oil on Canvas
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Signed/Dated
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Signed lower right
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Dimensions:
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16.00inch wide
(40.64 cm wide)
12.00inch high
(30.48 cm high)
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Framed Dimensions
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19.00inch wide
(48.26 cm wide)
15.00inch high
(38.10 cm high)
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Price
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gbp 10500.00 (Pound Sterling)
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Provenance
Christies, London 1898
Christies, London "Irish Sale" 2007
JAMES ARTHUR O'CONNOR (1792-1841) Biography
1792-1841; Irish landscape painter; b. Dublin; son of engraver and printer; self-taught, with some lessons from William Sadler; exhibited RDS, 1809; painted views of Westport and Ballinarobe (also Portumna); for Lords Sligo and Lord Clanricarde, 1818-19; went to London with Petrie and Francis Danby, exhibiting in RA, 1822, and also British Institute to 1840; painted intense landscapes of wild scenery in miniature scale; visited France, Holland, and Rhineland, remaining on the continent, 1826-33; affinities with Caspar David Friedrich; returned to London, where he had lived since 1822; on returning, found his pictures not much wanted; failing health; d. 7 Jan. at lodgings, 6 Marlborough St., Brompton; there is an obit., presum. by George Mulvany, in Dublin Monthly Magazine (April 1842)
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