Adam's Important Irish Art September 26th 2018

85 www.adams.ie Important Irish Art | 26th September 2018 74 DANIEL MACDONALD (1821-1853) The Village Funeral - An Irish Family by a Graveside during the Great Famine Oil on canvas, 47.5 x 56cm (18¾ X 22’’) Provenance: Anonymous sale, London, Bonham’s, 9 June 1966, lot 227, £55, where purchased by Peter Boydell (d. 2001); forming part of the private collection of Peter Boydell and Hannes Havardarson, West- bourne Terrace, London. Thence by descent until acquired by the present owner. This is possibly the only depiction of an Irish burial, certainly contemporaneous to the Great Famine. The attribution to MacDonald has been confirmed by Peter Murray, the former Crawford Art Gallery Director, and author of ‘ Whipping the Herring: Survival and Celebration in Irish Art ’. € 6,000 - 8,000