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Wooded landscape with figures on a path
Oil on Canvas, 25 x 21cm
Provenance: Gorry Gallery Exhibition 2018 where purchased by present owner
In addition to painting elegant demesnes, Norman castles and the most sublime aspects of the Irish landscape, O’Connor also enjoyed more workday subjects showing ordinary Dubliners at leisure. In Catalogue No. 13, for example, he paints a scene of bathers with two swimmers in a calm pool formed by the natural dam blocking the flow of a river. Their companion seems to be charged with caring for the pile of discarded clothes, which are painted with exuberant impasto to form a rich chromatic highlight. Unusually the foreground figure looks directly out of the picture to catch the viewer’s eye. Other bathing scenes by O’Connor survive. One shows the bathing hut at ‘Cranfield’s Baths’, which had been established sometime after 1797 between Irishtown and Ringsend. Here the flow of water contrasting with the reflective stillness of the bathing pool is captured with the most delicate of glazes and flicks of white paint contrasting with the squiggles of verdure. Dating from 1827 is a noticeably appealing landscape (No. 14) in which its small scale belies the grandeur of effect which O’Connor conjures from his familiar repertory of Irish scenery. The painting offers a rich chromatic contrast between sky blue and an array of verdure greens with his beloved trademark of a flick of red in the traveller’s waistcoat. In 1827 the year he painted it, O’Connor had just returned from a successful trip to Brussels and in these years of his ‘Middle Period’ he was painting some of his finest works. The picture was included in the major exhibition of Irish art held at Olympia in London in 1888 to which it was lent by Colnaghi’s. Showing a different aspect of his landscape art (No. 12) is an upright landscape dominated by a large tree on the left with two figures in patch of bright light on a path in the foreground.
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Wooded landscape with figures on a path
Oil on Canvas, 25 x 21cm
Provenance: Gorry Gallery Exhibition 2018 where purchased by present owner
In addition to painting elegant demesnes, Norman castles and the most sublime aspects of the Irish landscape, O’Connor also enjoyed more workday subjects showing ordinary Dubliners at leisure. In Catalogue No. 13, for example, he paints a scene of bathers with two swimmers in a calm pool formed by the natural dam blocking the flow of a river. Their companion seems to be charged with caring for the pile of discarded clothes, which are painted with exuberant impasto to form a rich chromatic highlight. Unusually the foreground figure looks directly out of the picture to catch the viewer’s eye. Other bathing scenes by O’Connor survive. One shows the bathing hut at ‘Cranfield’s Baths’, which had been established sometime after 1797 between Irishtown and Ringsend. Here the flow of water contrasting with the reflective stillness of the bathing pool is captured with the most delicate of glazes and flicks of white paint contrasting with the squiggles of verdure. Dating from 1827 is a noticeably appealing landscape (No. 14) in which its small scale belies the grandeur of effect which O’Connor conjures from his familiar repertory of Irish scenery. The painting offers a rich chromatic contrast between sky blue and an array of verdure greens with his beloved trademark of a flick of red in the traveller’s waistcoat. In 1827 the year he painted it, O’Connor had just returned from a successful trip to Brussels and in these years of his ‘Middle Period’ he was painting some of his finest works. The picture was included in the major exhibition of Irish art held at Olympia in London in 1888 to which it was lent by Colnaghi’s. Showing a different aspect of his landscape art (No. 12) is an upright landscape dominated by a large tree on the left with two figures in patch of bright light on a path in the foreground.