Paul Henry (Ireland, 1876-1958)

 

 Showery Day, Connemara

Oil on canvasboard, 10 x 12 in.

Turf stacks in the west (c. 1935)

oil on canvas 40.6 x 61 cm

Paul Henry was an Irish painter known for his landscape paintings of the west of Ireland. He was born in 1876 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and studied art at the Belfast School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Henry was a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Ulster Academy, and exhibited his work widely in Ireland and England. His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland and the Ulster Museum in Belfast. Henry's paintings are known for their loose, expressive brushwork and their subtle, muted colors, and he often depicted the rugged, dramatic landscapes of the west of Ireland. He died in 1958 at the age of 81.

An Irish artist: Sir John Lavery

Sir John Lavery (Ireland 1856-1941)

From the Cliffs, 1901

Hazel in Tangier, 1911


The Path by the River, Maidenhead (1919)
oil on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm

Morning after the storm on the beach at Tangier (1920)

The Golf Course, North Berwick 1922

Sir John Lavery (20 March 1856 – 10 January 1941) was an Irish painter best known for his portraits.
Belfast-born John Lavery attended the Haldane Academy, in Glasgow, in the 1870s and the Académie Julianin Paris in the early 1880s. He returned to Glasgow and was associated with the Glasgow School. 
In 1888 he was commissioned to paint the state visit of Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International Exhibition. This launched his career as a society painter and he moved to London soon after. In London he became friendly with James McNeill Whistler and was clearly influenced by him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lavery

Donald Teskey (Irish, b.1956)

Island Crossing IV

Hungry Hill I

Donald Teskey is an Irish painter who was born in Dublin in 1954. 

He is known for his landscapes and figurative paintings, which are often inspired by the countryside and people of Ireland. Teskey studied art at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and later at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He has exhibited his work widely in Ireland and abroad, and his paintings can be found in private and public collections around the world. Teskey has received numerous awards for his work, including the Hennessy Craig Scholarship and the RHA Gold Medal for Painting. He has also been elected to the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts.

An Irish painter: Jack Butler Yeats

Queen Maeve Walked Upon this strand

Faces in the Bog (1929)

oil on canvas


The Stevedore (1947)

Oil on canvas, 14 x 21 in.

The Knight Who Sings

That We May Never Meet Again, 1952-58

 1952-58

Jack Butler Yeats, (born Dublin, Ireland) was one of the most important Irish painters of the 20th century. His scenes of daily life and Celtic mythology contributed to the surge of nationalism in the Irish arts after the Irish War of Independence (1919–21). Yeats was the son of John Butler Yeats, a well-known portrait painter, and the brother of the poet William Butler Yeats.

Roderic O'Connor, The Black Hill

The Black Hill

Le Cap Canaille Cassis

Landscape, Pont-Aven, 1892

The vawe, 1898

Seascape with Pink Foam



Snow Landscape

Bog Scene I



La Jeune Fille

Houses by a River

Seascape, Brittany (oil on board)

Landscape

Red Roofs, circa 1894

Roderic O'Connor - Reclining Nude 1906

The Bouquet

Declan O'Connor is a native Co.Tipperary. After qualifying as a pharmacist he began practicing art in his spare time. In the early nineties O'Connor worked in earnest on a series of portraits, first the Irish Writers, the Seven Signatories of 1916 and also C.J. Haughey. Declan O'Connor painted under the pseudonym of Roderic O'Connor during this period in order to eliminate the confusion with his day job.

In the meantime he has given up his day job to work solely as an artist painting fulltime under his own name, Declan O'Connor. His work has turned to landscape and horses, especially horse fairs, and his style has since become more confident, looser and fluid in the style of Yeats.

source: buckleyfineart

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderic_O%27Conor