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45 SIR THOMAS ALFRED JONES PRHA (C.1823-1893) ‘A Prayer for the Absent’Watercolour, 45 x 34cm (17½ x 13¼’’)
Inscribed with an old Cranfield’s trade label verso - ‘A Prayer for the Absent, Thos. A. Jones, 9 Upper Mount Street’
Exhibited: ‘Irish Art in the 19th Century’ Cork, ROSC, The Crawford Gallery October/December 1971, Catalogue No.61.
Literature : “The Watercolours of Ireland” by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, illustrated p.187, Fig. 250
Sir Thomas Alfred Jones is best known for his portrait “Molly Macree” in the National Gallery of Ireland. He became President of the RHA in
1869 and was the first PRHA to be Knighted. Jones’s watercolours have a strongly Pre-Raphaelite feel, using small strokes of brilliant colour.
It is thought that this work has references to the Crimean War, the mother obviously reading the news with her daughter by her side.
€ 1,500 - 2,500