Life
1792-1841; Irish landscape painter; b. Dublin; son of engraver and printer;
self-taught, with some lessons from William Sadler; exhibited RDS, 1809;
painted views of Westport and Ballinarobe (also Portumna); for Lords Sligo
and Lord Clanricarde, 1818-19; went to London with Petrie and Francis
Danby, exhibiting in RA, 1822, and also British Institute to 1840; painted
intense landscapes of wild scenery in miniature scale; visited France,
Holland, and Rhineland, remaining on the continent, 1826-33; affinities
with Caspar David Friedrich; returned to London, where he had lived since
1822; on returning, found his pictures not much wanted; failing health;
d. 7 Jan. at lodgings, 6 Marlborough St., Brompton; there is an obit.,
presum. by George Mulvany, in Dublin Monthly Magazine (April 1842).
DNB DIB BREF WJM
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Criticism
John Hutchinson, James Arthur O’Connor [Cat. 1985 Exhibition]
(NGI 1985).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)