Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 1st June 2022

www.adams.ie William Ashford 1746-1824 45 GEORGE BARRET (C. 1732-1784) Sun Rising: An Extensive Wooded Landscape with Fishermen Oil on canvas 101.5 x 126 cm (40 x 49.6”) Engraved: by Robert Laurie, published by Robert Sayer and John Bennet, No 53 Fleet Street, London, 10 July 1774 Literature: Taking Stock, Acquisitions, 2000-2010 , Exhibition Catalogue, National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin, 2009) refering to the present work on page 13 ... “a smaller but equally high-quality version of this picture recently appeared on the London art market”. € 100,000 – 150,000 ‘[Barret] presents you with such a glorious assemblage, as I have sometimes seen among high mountains …while the early beams of the sun sport themselves’. (Edmund Burke)