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The decision to hold the exhibition was taken at the Irish Industrial Conference in April 1903, [1] and inspired by a small exhibition in Cork (the Cork International Exhibition) 5 years earlier. [2] The 1907 exhibition was intended to improve the trade of Irish goods. [ 3 ]
Seán Keating studied drawing at the Limerick Technical School before a scholarship arranged by William Orpen allowed him to go at the age of twenty to study at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin. Over the next few years, he spent time on the Aran Islands. In 1914 Keating won the RDS Taylor award with a painting titled The Reconciliation ...
Mary Ruth (May) Manning was born in Dublin in 1853, the daughter of engineer Robert Manning and Susanna (née Gibson). Apart from a period of time living in Hampstead, London from 1889 to 1892, Manning lived in the family home at Ely Place from 1880.
A 90 chains (1,800 m) branch railway line was built in late 1905 across North Hagley Park starting at the Riccarton station to service the exhibition (goods traffic only) [3] and a temporary tram line was built in Peterborough Street, Park Terrace and Salisbury Street to connect with the Victoria Street tram.
Mary Harriet "Mainie" Jellett (29 April 1897 – 16 February 1944) was an Irish painter whose Decoration (1923) was among the first abstract paintings shown in Ireland when it was exhibited at the Society of Dublin Painters Group Show in 1923. She was a strong promoter and defender of modern art in her country, and her artworks are present in ...
Probably the mouth of the Santry River at Raheny on the Dublin coast, 1895. Joseph Malachy Kavanagh (1856 – 17 April 1918) was an Irish painter. He is known for his painting landscapes, seascapes, rural scenes in Ireland, France and Belgium and occasional portraits. [1] He particularly was inspired by the landscape in and around Dublin. [2]
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In a Dublin Park, Light and Shade, 1895. He won the Taylor Prize in 1881 and 1882, [6] the highest student honour in Ireland of the time, while studying at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp. He was influenced by the Flemish painter Rubens, and the French realist, plein-air painter, Jules Bastien-Lepage, as well as Berthe ...