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ROBERT HEALY (1743-1771)
A Portrait of a Man, Standing by a Bench in a Wooded Garden Setting;
and
The companion portrait of a Man Seated in a Woodland
Setting with a Sporting Gun and a Dog,
A pair, black and white chalk, highlighted with body colour, each 58 x 40cm
Both signed and dated 1769
Provenance: Almost certainty Cuthbert Collingwood Denny, and by descent at Beaulieu House
Exhibited: (possibly) 1769, Society of Artists in Ireland, No. 98 Small Whole Length Portraits
Labels to the back of these recently discovered and significant additions to the
oeuvre
of Healy identify the sitter as Anthony Denny. The
Denny of County Kerry connection with Beaulieu was established by the marriage of Richard Johnston Montgomery to Mary Patience
Collingwood Denny, daughter of Cuthbert Collingwood Denny of Kerry.
Their ancestor Anthony Denny established a cadet branch of the Denny family, and as his dates do not fit the date of these drawings a
more likely candidate is his father, Sir Edward Denny of Tralee Castle and Churchill, Co. Kerry.
€20000 - 30000
