SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S HOUSE, YOUGHAL, COUNTY CORK, 1886 John Armour Haydn LLD (1881-1957)
Signature: original inscribed label, signed and dated [July] on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 12 by 16in., 30 by 41cm. Provenance: Presented by the artist to a Miss Brew, according to label on reverse; Private collection;Whyte's, 26 April 2005, lot 121;Whence purchased by the present owner The Venerable J. A. Haydn LL.D was rector of Nantenan, near Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, and later Archdeacon of Limerick. His artistic pursuits are little known compared to those of his only son, also ca... alled John Armour Haydn (1881-1957), who was a regular exhibitor with the Dublin Sketching Club during the 1920s-1950s; the son also showed nine works at the RHA (See Snoddy, p.231). Both father and son favoured architectural subjects, typically in Kerry, Limerick, Cork and Dublin. Myrtle Grove is the sixteenth century Tudor manor house of Sir Walter Raleigh, occupied by him when he was Mayor of Youghal in 1558-59. Also visible in Haydn's view is the thirteenth century Collegiate Church, St. Mary's, next door to Myrtle Grove more
SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S HOUSE, YOUGHAL, COUNTY CORK, 1886 John Armour Haydn LLD (1881-1957)
Signature: original inscribed label, signed and dated [July] on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 12 by 16in., 30 by 41cm. Provenance: Presented by the artist to a Miss Brew, according to label on reverse; Private collection;Whyte's, 26 April 2005, lot 121;Whence purchased by the present owner The Venerable J. A. Haydn LL.D was rector of Nantenan, near Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, and later Archdeacon of Limerick. His artistic pursuits are little known compared to those of his only son, also ca... alled John Armour Haydn (1881-1957), who was a regular exhibitor with the Dublin Sketching Club during the 1920s-1950s; the son also showed nine works at the RHA (See Snoddy, p.231). Both father and son favoured architectural subjects, typically in Kerry, Limerick, Cork and Dublin. Myrtle Grove is the sixteenth century Tudor manor house of Sir Walter Raleigh, occupied by him when he was Mayor of Youghal in 1558-59. Also visible in Haydn's view is the thirteenth century Collegiate Church, St. Mary's, next door to Myrtle Grove more
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