Life
1741-1824 [fl.1788]; Thomas Hickey, painter; accompanied Lord George Macartney
to China; prob. visited India; produced History of Painting and Sculpture
(Calcutta 1788). DNB
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Ann Crookshank & the Knight of Glin, Irish Portraits 1600-1860 [Catalogue] (1969), p.18-19, studied RDS; travelled, 1753-56; studied in Itlay, returned to Ireland, then to London and Bath, finally to India and China; many works in crayon; successful in small full lengths, and later Indian subjects.
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition (1984), produced in Calcutta the first vol. of a History of Painting and Sculpture from the Earliest Accounts (1788), which surveyed Greek art from the shield of Achilles as described in the Iliad down to Pliny, Pausanias, et. al.
Hickey’s port. of Burke; Hickey later went to India, and remained
there, painting colonial luminaries, and accompanying Lord Macartney on
his mission to China (National Portrait Collection; see Conor Cruise O'Brien, The Great Melody).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)