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Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 92cm (24¼ x 36¼”)

Signed, Inscribed verso

Exhibited: Dublin RHA 1880 NO.201

Born in Knocknagur, Co Galway, the son of William Burke and his wife Fanny, only daughter of Thomas Tucker of Sussex. Educated

mostly in London, Burke began his artistic career there and from 1863 exhibited at the Royal Academy where he continued to show

his work until his untimely death at the age of 53. Walter Strickland notes that in 1869 he took up residence in Dublin with his wife

Dottie, living first at No. 2 Leinster Street and later at No. 6, St. Stephen’s Green. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Hibernian

Academy in July 1871 and a Member in August that same year. Strickland notes that Burke “painted landscapes and subjects and a

few portraits”. Two of his paintings – ‘

A Connemara Landscape

’ (1865) (NGI No.587) and ‘

A Connemara Girl

’ (NGI No.1212) are in the

collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.

€ 8,000 - 12,000