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Important Irish Art 2nd December 2015
Bay Hunter in a Stable Yard
Oil on canvas, 45 x 59.5cm (17¾ x 23½”)
Signed with monogram
Provenance: Arthur Ackermann trade label affixed verso
William Osborne was born in Dublin in February 1823 and was twenty-one years of age when he entered the Royal Hibernian
Academy as a student. He began exhibiting at the RHA in 1851 with three works, a portrait of a Terrier Dog, a watercolour
of a Boy and another of a Girl from an address in Pleasants Street in Dublin. He became a Member in 1868 and exhibited
almost every year up to his death. Strickland notes that Osborne “devoted himself to the painting of animals, chiefly dogs and
horses, which he loved and thoroughly understood.”
His son, Walter eclipsed the father as a painter and sadly only outlived him by a couple of years.
€ 3,500 - 4,500