Adam's HOMAN POTTERTON A LIFETIME OF COLLECTING 7th September 2021

100 93 ROBERT WOODBURN (18TH CENTURY) Portrait of a Lady Wearing a Lace Bonnet (Mrs. Phil Walsh) Oil on canvas, 75 x 63cm (29.5 x 24.8”) Inscribed verso and dated 1794 € 2,000 - 4,000 Not a great deal is known about Woodburn but according to Strickland he was a pupil and assis- tant to Robert Home when the latter was in Ireland, and afterwards practised as a portrait painter in Dublin and Waterford. Portraits by him of the Earl of Bective and Sir Robert Scott were exhib- ited at Ellis’ Museum in Mary Street in 1792. In 1801 and 1802, when he was living at No.15 Great Ship Street, he exhibited twelve portraits and landscapes in the Parliament House. Among them were a portrait of Peter Walsh Reading by Candle-light and a portrait of Major-General Johnson, who commanded at the battle of Ross in 1798. This portrait was engraved in mezzotint by Robert Dunkarton and published by Woodburn.