Life
1793-1861; b. Ireland, went to London 1813; ARA, 1825; left England due
to domestic troubles and settled near Lake of Geneva, 1829-41; excelled
as painter of ideal and poetic landscapes, among which Sunset at Sea
after a Storm (1824) and The Departure of Ulysses from Ithaca
(1854). DNB BREF
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Notes
Brian de Breffny, Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia
(London: Thames & Hudson); b. at St John’s, nr. Killinick, Co
Wexford; ed. Dublin Society Schools [RDS]; visited England with James
O’Connor and George Petrie in 1824, and never returned; enormously
successful for some years exhibiting landscapes, cataclysmic biblical
scenes, etc. at RHA; returned to England after living in France and Switzerland
during the 1830s, but never to the same success; won prize to great acclaim
at International Exposition in Paris, 1855. Ill., Liensfjord Lake in Norway,
oil, c.1840; V&A. Bibl., Eric Adams, Francis Danby (London
1973).
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (IAP 1976; this ed. 1984), Francis Danby (1793-1861), ed. RDS, emigrated to Bristol; classical themes include Venus Arising from the Sea, Three Sisters of Phaeton, The Embarkation of Cleopatra, and three scenes from the Odyssey. [?125]
Portrait of Francis Danby by Chris. Moore; see Anne Crookshank, Irish Portraits [Exhibition Cat.] (Ulster Museum 1965).
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