PORTRAIT OF DESMOND EDMUND CONOR MCGILLYCUDDY, c.mid-1950s Leo Whelan RHA (1892-1956)
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed [Leo Whelan RHA / 65 Eccles St.] on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 38.5 by 42.5in., 98 by 108cm. Provenance: Family of the sitter; Private collection, England Leo Whelan painted the portraits of Dermod McGillycuddy Esq. and Mrs Dermod McGillycuddy and exhibited them at the RHA in Dublin, in 1939, numbers 205 and 210 respectively. The previous year the coupl... le, Patricia Kennedy and Dermot McGillycuddy (son of Senator Lieutenant Colonel The McGillycuddy of the Reeks.), were married and their wedding ceremony is recorded in film and print as a High Society event in Dublin that year. The present work depicts their son born in 1949 at Bishopscourt, Kill, Co. Kildare. He is shown here alongside his Kerry Bog Pony and Jack Russell terrier and holding a Kohler hunting horn. In his latter years Whelan developed a fondness for a more sombre palette as demonstrated in the present work. more
PORTRAIT OF DESMOND EDMUND CONOR MCGILLYCUDDY, c.mid-1950s Leo Whelan RHA (1892-1956)
Signature: signed lower left; inscribed [Leo Whelan RHA / 65 Eccles St.] on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 38.5 by 42.5in., 98 by 108cm. Provenance: Family of the sitter; Private collection, England Leo Whelan painted the portraits of Dermod McGillycuddy Esq. and Mrs Dermod McGillycuddy and exhibited them at the RHA in Dublin, in 1939, numbers 205 and 210 respectively. The previous year the coupl... le, Patricia Kennedy and Dermot McGillycuddy (son of Senator Lieutenant Colonel The McGillycuddy of the Reeks.), were married and their wedding ceremony is recorded in film and print as a High Society event in Dublin that year. The present work depicts their son born in 1949 at Bishopscourt, Kill, Co. Kildare. He is shown here alongside his Kerry Bog Pony and Jack Russell terrier and holding a Kohler hunting horn. In his latter years Whelan developed a fondness for a more sombre palette as demonstrated in the present work. more
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