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Michael Healy (1873-1941)
Dubliners
Watercolour, 16.5 x 12cm (6.5 x 4.75”)
Born on the 14th November 1873 at 40 Bishop
Street, Dublin 8, Michael Healy enrolled, in 1897,
at the Metropolitan School of Art where he studied
until 1898 when he joined the RHA school. At
this time he began to work as an illustrator for the
Irish Rosary and whilst there became very friendly
with the editor Fr. Glendon, OP. Father Glendon
encouraged Healy to go to Florence to further his
studies and accordingly Healy left for Florence in
the Autumn of 1899. Healy stayed in Florence
for 18 months working in the studio of de Bac-
ci-Ventui ( a Florentine painter) and studying in
the life school of the R. Instituto de Belle Arte. In
1903 Sarah Purser, Edward Martyn, T.P. Gill etc.,
founded the studio of An Tur Gloine (The Tower
of Glass) whose purpose was to improve the quality
of stained glass in Ireland. Michael Healy was the
first recruit to this studio and by 1904 he produced
his first complete window,The St. Simeon Window
for Loughrea Cathedral. From this period onwards
Healy’s interest in painting decreased (although he
did exhibit with the RHA from 1912 to 1914) and
stained glass became his passion.
€200 - 300
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Dale Pring MacSweeney (b.1949)
Little Fishes
Oil on canvas, 20 x 25cm (7.9 x 9.8”)
Signed with initials and dated ‘07
€600 - 800