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Oil on canvas, 61 x 86.5cm (24 x 34”)
Signed
€ 3,000 - 5,000
Born in Queenstown, now Cobh, Co. Cork, George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson trained as a carpenter, later becoming Captain Atkinson as Government Surveyor of Shipping and Em-
igrants. When he began painting, it is no surprise that marine scenes were his subject of choice, and although self taught he exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1842. His
works became widely known through lithographs published by W. Scraggs of Cork and Atkinson’s own son G. M. Atkinson.