Irish Painter, C.1734-1808

•  Works include:
  1.   Portrait of James Byres  (1734 - 1806)   

  1.   Portrait of James Byres  (1734 - 1806)	Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
  2.   Pair of portraits of a lady & gentleman  (1734 - 1806)	Forty Hall Museum
  3.   The Earl-Bishop of Bristol and Derry Seated Before a Prospect of Rome  (1790)	Ickworth House, Park and Gardens
  4.   Antonio Canova in his studio with Henry Tresham  (1788 - 1789)	Victoria and Albert Museum

 b. Temple Bar, Dublin, ed. Robert West’s drawing school in George’s Lane; practised oval portraiture; moved to London in 1764; exhibited with Incorporated Society, 1771, with the Free Society of Artists, 1772, and again with the Incorporated Society, 1773-75; made protraits of George III and the Queen; travelled to Rome to study, 1778; took up oils on the advice of Flaxman; returned to Dublin in 1791; became the leading Irish portraitist of his period; works incl. portraits of Arthur Hill, Marquis of Downshire and the Earl Bishop of Derry with his grand-neice [NGI], the latter being the subject of a poem by Paul Durcan; d. 10 Feb., at his house in Lr. Mount St., Dublin; an oil portrait of Arthur Hill (2nd Marquis of Downshire) sold for £377,750 at Christies, London, in Nov. 2000; a series of Dublin drawings was discovered in Australia in 2002 and published as Cries of Dublin (2003).