No. 1

A COTTAGE NEAR ROUNDWOOD

The Irish watercolour painter John Faulkner was born in Dublin and studied drawing and fine art painting at the Royal Dublin School. His precocious talent led him to begin exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in 1852 when he was only 17. He was elected an RHA academician at 26 and also exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA) in London. Faulkner’s earliest landscape paintings depict scenes of south Co. Dublin and the Wicklow coast. He had a particular skill at capturing the soft dampness of the Irish climate.

 

No. 2

SUNSHINE AND SHOWERS - AT HOME IN KILLARNEY

Set in the McGillycuddy Reeks on the Ring of Kerry in Ireland, this scene depicts typical rural life of the time. James Richard Marquis was a pupil of the Royal Dublin Society’s School in 1847 and then afterwards practised as a landscape artist. He started exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in 1853; was elected an associate in 1861, and a member the following year. A few years later he moved to London, but continued to send his pictures back to the Dublin Academy. Towards the end of his life he married and lived mostly in Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

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