ADAM'S - IMPORTANT IRISH ART, WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 67cm (15¾ x 26½’’)

Signed

Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Karl Mullen and his sale, where

purchased.

Exhibited: ‘Irish Art in the 19th Century’, Cork ROSC, The Crawford

Gallery, October-December 1971, Catalogue No. 52.

Literature: ‘Irish Art in the 19th Century’, 1971, illustrated p.35.

€ 2,000 - 4,000

Although born in Bristol in 1820 Hayes moved with his family to Dublin in 1833 and studied at the RDS schools. From the outset he

became a marine painter and sailed around the Irish coast in his yacht. He first exhibited at the RHA in 1842 and was elected ARHA

in 1853 and RHA in 1871. He left Dublin for London in 1852 and continued to paint around the coast of Britain , France , Spain and

Italy. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of painters in watercolour becoming an associate member in 1860

and full member in 1863. He continued to exhibit annually in Dublin until his death in London in 1904.