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Woman by the Garden Wall
Oil on Canvas, 112 x 87cm
Signed
In original carved gilt wood Italian/Florentine frame
Edward Prittie is one of the sadly high number of Irish artists who died tragically prematurely, a roll call which includes some of the most talented figures in Irish art history, including Thomas Roberts, Robert Healy and Frank O'Meara. (See too Cat 31 for Michael George Brennan.) A scion of the Prittie family of Kilboy, County Tipperary, Prittie was a nephew of Henry, Baron Dunalley. Having abandoned a military career to pursue his love of art, in 1874 he enrolled at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where be met with early success with his historical subjects such as Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, some of which he sent back to Dublin for exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy. After a spell in Italy to to try and recover from illness, Prittie settled in Ireland and was elected to associate membership of the R.H.A. but ill health prevented him from working and his work is today extremely rare. He died at his home in Lower Mount Street in March 1882 aged just thirty. Strickland, who seems to have known the artist, gives a vivid pen-portrait of his attractive personality and versatile abilities. 'Prittie was an accomplished man, he was a musician and possessed a fine and cultivated voice, and was a clever mimic. When in Brussels he won the second prize for pigeon shooting at Spa. But in spite of his many-sided talents he was modest and diffident of his powers, and his warm-hearted and genial nature made him a favourite with all who knew him'.
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Woman by the Garden Wall
Oil on Canvas, 112 x 87cm
Signed
In original carved gilt wood Italian/Florentine frame
Edward Prittie is one of the sadly high number of Irish artists who died tragically prematurely, a roll call which includes some of the most talented figures in Irish art history, including Thomas Roberts, Robert Healy and Frank O'Meara. (See too Cat 31 for Michael George Brennan.) A scion of the Prittie family of Kilboy, County Tipperary, Prittie was a nephew of Henry, Baron Dunalley. Having abandoned a military career to pursue his love of art, in 1874 he enrolled at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where be met with early success with his historical subjects such as Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, some of which he sent back to Dublin for exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy. After a spell in Italy to to try and recover from illness, Prittie settled in Ireland and was elected to associate membership of the R.H.A. but ill health prevented him from working and his work is today extremely rare. He died at his home in Lower Mount Street in March 1882 aged just thirty. Strickland, who seems to have known the artist, gives a vivid pen-portrait of his attractive personality and versatile abilities. 'Prittie was an accomplished man, he was a musician and possessed a fine and cultivated voice, and was a clever mimic. When in Brussels he won the second prize for pigeon shooting at Spa. But in spite of his many-sided talents he was modest and diffident of his powers, and his warm-hearted and genial nature made him a favourite with all who knew him'.