AN INTERIOR OF A COACH HOUSE, circa 1895 Walter Frederick Osborne RHA ROI (1859-1903)
Signature: signed lower left Medium: oil on canvas laid on board Dimensions: 19 by 28cm., 7.5 by 11in. Provenance: Pyms Gallery, London; Private collection Exhibited: Possibly exhibited at the RHA, 1896, no. 216 as A Spanish Inn; ’The Art of a Nation’, Pyms Gallery, London, 2002, catalogue no. 22 In 1895 Osborne and Walter Armstrong then recently appointed Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, journeyed by train from Paris to Madrid. There they visited the Prado, where Osborne made a c... copy of Velazquez’s Mercury and Argus. He also sketched groups of people observed in cafés, in the street, on a train station platform and at an inn. Back in Dublin he painted at least one recorded oil, A Spanish Inn (Sheehy, 1974, no. 466), which was exhibited the following year, 1896, at the RHA. Julian Campbell has tentatively identified the present work with the 1896 RHA exhibit, based on the distinctive terracotta roof tiles, so typical of Spanish architecture, glimpsed here in the upper right hand corner of the composition. He also notes the fluid handling of the paint, comparable in its freedom to that found in his small Galway oil studies (see Campbell’s essay accompanying lot 56, Adam’s 4 October 2006 sale catalogue) more
AN INTERIOR OF A COACH HOUSE, circa 1895 Walter Frederick Osborne RHA ROI (1859-1903)
Signature: signed lower left Medium: oil on canvas laid on board Dimensions: 19 by 28cm., 7.5 by 11in. Provenance: Pyms Gallery, London; Private collection Exhibited: Possibly exhibited at the RHA, 1896, no. 216 as A Spanish Inn; ’The Art of a Nation’, Pyms Gallery, London, 2002, catalogue no. 22 In 1895 Osborne and Walter Armstrong then recently appointed Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, journeyed by train from Paris to Madrid. There they visited the Prado, where Osborne made a c... copy of Velazquez’s Mercury and Argus. He also sketched groups of people observed in cafés, in the street, on a train station platform and at an inn. Back in Dublin he painted at least one recorded oil, A Spanish Inn (Sheehy, 1974, no. 466), which was exhibited the following year, 1896, at the RHA. Julian Campbell has tentatively identified the present work with the 1896 RHA exhibit, based on the distinctive terracotta roof tiles, so typical of Spanish architecture, glimpsed here in the upper right hand corner of the composition. He also notes the fluid handling of the paint, comparable in its freedom to that found in his small Galway oil studies (see Campbell’s essay accompanying lot 56, Adam’s 4 October 2006 sale catalogue) more
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