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Identifier: irelandinlondon00fahy (find matches)
Title: Ireland in London
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Fahy, Francis A. (Francis Arthur), 1854-1935 O'Donoghue, D. J. (David James), 1866-1917
Subjects: Irish
Publisher: Dublin : Evening Telegraph
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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red one of the mostimaginative and poetical of landscape painters,this is a rather meagre representation of hisgenius, but makes up in quality what it lacks inqurtntity. for the picture just mentioned is averitable masterpiece, although not so grand assome of his other works in London public institu-tions. Danby was born in 1793, and died in1861, leaving two sons, both of whom becamedistinguished painters, and only died recently. John Singleton Copley is represented by two orthree of his greatest works. One is the magnifi-cent Death of Chatham, an event most gra-phically described on canvas; and his equally fine Death of Major Pierson, at St. Helena. Thelast is a genuine battle-picture, and places war be-fore us in all its terrible aspects, therein some-what differing from theconventional battle-pieces,which resemble more closely the stage-fight in amelodrama than the real thing. Copley wasborn in Boston, in America, in 1787, his parentsbeing poor Irish emigrants, whose real name it t
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NATIONAL GALLERY. said was Collopy. J. S. Copley died in 1815His son became first a judge, and finally LordChancellor of England, with the title of LordLyndhurst. There are oue or two fine pictures here byWilliam Collins, R.A., a most delightlul painterof seascape. His father, the author oi the Lifeof George Morland, and a clever carver andmodeller, was a native of Wicklow. His son, the 40 Ireland in London. painter now under notice, was born in London in1788, and died in 1847. The present eminentnovelist, William Wilkie Collins, is a son ot thelast-named, and, therefore, possesses some Irish9lood in his veins. It is not so well known that the great marine-painter, William Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., was also of Irish parentage. The fact is generallyignored by English compilers, but it is, neverthe-less, a fact, and one which should not be lor-gotten by Irishmen. He was born in Birming-ham in 1792, and diedinl8G7. He was one of themost intimate friends o( Dickens andMaclise, andaa a mar

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