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Oil on board, 19 x 27.75cm (7½ x 11”)
Provenance: The Grace Pym Gallery, Dublin, where
purchased by present owner
€800 - 1,200
Dublin
Oil on panel, 30 x 48cm (11¾ x 19”)
William Sadler was born in Dublin in 1782, the son of a painter. He is best remembered as a recorder of the rich fabric of Dublin regency life. His chiefly small paintings on ma-
hogany panels show depictions of his environs and historical or social events of the day. The visit of George IV to Dublin; the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius; or a calamitous fire, are
amongst his numerous subjects.
Dr Brendan Rooney describes Sadler’s paintings as offering a microcosm of society, merchants, soldiers, sailors, tradesmen, mothers with children. He is a painter of the everyday,
of the quotidian, whose eye is caught by the thunderstorm, anecdotal detail that would be passed over by other artists.
For this present work, which is a version of a larger painting presently in the collection at Russborough House, the artist has taken a view point near the present day Infirmary
Road looking down the Liffey towards the recently erected Wellington Monument. The Phoenix Ironworks just visible in the foreground, further distant flies the outsized Union
Jack above the ramparts of the magazine fort in the Phoenix Park, overlooking the village of Chapelizod. On the opposite bank of the river, the Royal Hospital Kilmainham sits
amongst fields of freshly cut hay.
As with so many of his works, a fascinating snapshot of Dublin in a different age.
€2,000 - 4,000