James Arthur O’Connor c.1792-1841
Wooded Landscape with Figures by a Lake
Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 43.5 cm.
Echoing the 18th century masters, this well balanced composition by James Arthur O’Connor is characteristic of the best work of his middle-period. With its lush rounded foliage, the tall and elegant tree of the left foreground neatly frames the distant mountains and lake as the two visitors to the scene observe a sunset, in search of the sublime. Underlining the success of this composition, and O’Connor’s own confidence in it, this is one of three known versions of this view, including one dated 1828 (illustrated in black and white), exhibited and sold at this gallery (An Exhibition of 18th - 21st Century Irish Paintings & Sculpture, 7th - 23rd June 2018, no. 7). As such, this view can be confidently dated to circa 1828.
O’Connor exhibited A View in the Devil’s Glen, Wicklow at the British Institution in 1828, and painted several other views in Ireland during the same year, including Scene in Connemara (Gorry Gallery; Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, 2011.19), View on the Liffey (Gorry Gallery; private collection), and In the Vale of Glenmalure (Gorry Gallery, 1990, no. 38; private collection).
Wooded Landscape with Figures by a Lake
Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 43.5 cm.
Echoing the 18th century masters, this well balanced composition by James Arthur O’Connor is characteristic of the best work of his middle-period. With its lush rounded foliage, the tall and elegant tree of the left foreground neatly frames the distant mountains and lake as the two visitors to the scene observe a sunset, in search of the sublime. Underlining the success of this composition, and O’Connor’s own confidence in it, this is one of three known versions of this view, including one dated 1828 (illustrated in black and white), exhibited and sold at this gallery (An Exhibition of 18th - 21st Century Irish Paintings & Sculpture, 7th - 23rd June 2018, no. 7). As such, this view can be confidently dated to circa 1828.
O’Connor exhibited A View in the Devil’s Glen, Wicklow at the British Institution in 1828, and painted several other views in Ireland during the same year, including Scene in Connemara (Gorry Gallery; Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, 2011.19), View on the Liffey (Gorry Gallery; private collection), and In the Vale of Glenmalure (Gorry Gallery, 1990, no. 38; private collection).
Wooded Landscape with Figures by a Lake
Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 43.5 cm.
Echoing the 18th century masters, this well balanced composition by James Arthur O’Connor is characteristic of the best work of his middle-period. With its lush rounded foliage, the tall and elegant tree of the left foreground neatly frames the distant mountains and lake as the two visitors to the scene observe a sunset, in search of the sublime. Underlining the success of this composition, and O’Connor’s own confidence in it, this is one of three known versions of this view, including one dated 1828 (illustrated in black and white), exhibited and sold at this gallery (An Exhibition of 18th - 21st Century Irish Paintings & Sculpture, 7th - 23rd June 2018, no. 7). As such, this view can be confidently dated to circa 1828.
O’Connor exhibited A View in the Devil’s Glen, Wicklow at the British Institution in 1828, and painted several other views in Ireland during the same year, including Scene in Connemara (Gorry Gallery; Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, 2011.19), View on the Liffey (Gorry Gallery; private collection), and In the Vale of Glenmalure (Gorry Gallery, 1990, no. 38; private collection).