Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART Auction Wednesday 29th September 2021

58 50 WALTER FREDERICK OSBORNE RHA ROI (1859 -1903) The Pump of St Nicholas, Antwerp Oil on Canvas, 45 x 32cm (17¾ x 12½’’) Signed ‘F.W. Osborne’ on the stretcher J.D. Spense Picture Frame Maker’s label verso. Provenance: Collection of Mr Hanna (of Fred Hanna’s Bookshop) who purchased the paint- ing from Orgel & Co. 35 Nassau Street, Dublin 2 in 1963. Exhibited: probably Royal Hibernian Academy 1883, no. 150, ‘ The Pump of St Nicholas, Antwerp’, £10. Literature: Thomas Bodkin, ‘Four Irish Landscape Painters’, Dublin and London 1920, Ap- pendix XI, p.117; Julian Campbell, ‘Irish Students in Antwerp in the 19th Century’, in Logan Sisley, ed. ‘Eugeen Van Mieghem, Port Life’, 2017, p.79. € 70,000 - 100,000