Town of Westport and Clew Bay, County Mayo
Oil Painting
1825 (made)
1825 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
O’Connor was born in Dublin and first exhibited there in 1809. He was well known for paintings of his native Ireland and had visited the west of the country in 1818-1819 where he painted a series of landscapes commissioned by Lord Sligo at Westport. He lived in London from 1822, but continued to paint pictures of Ireland, exhibiting 21 landscapes at the Royal Academy between 1822 and 1840.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Town of Westport and Clew Bay, County Mayo (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | oil on canvas |
| Brief description | Oil painting on canvas, depicting the town of Westport and Clew Bay, County Mayo, by James Arthur O'Connor, Ireland, 1825 |
| Physical description | Oil painting on canvas, depicting the town of Westport and Clew Bay, County Mayo. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'J A O'Connor/1825' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower left) |
| Object history | Purchased, 1873 |
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| Summary | O’Connor was born in Dublin and first exhibited there in 1809. He was well known for paintings of his native Ireland and had visited the west of the country in 1818-1819 where he painted a series of landscapes commissioned by Lord Sligo at Westport. He lived in London from 1822, but continued to paint pictures of Ireland, exhibiting 21 landscapes at the Royal Academy between 1822 and 1840. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 220 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 30-1873 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2003 |
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