Adam's AT HOME AUCTION December 15th 2019

123 338 AUGUSTUS BURKE RHA (1838 - 1891) Cattle on a Riverbank Oil on canvas, 30.5 x 45.75cm (12 x 18’’) Signed Provenance: Purchased from Seán Ó Criadáin, 1974 by John P. Reihill, Deepwell, Blackrock, Co. Dublin € 1,500 - 2,000 339 GEORGE BARRETT JNR (1767 - 1842) An Arcadian landscape with figures Watercolour, 33 x 48cm Provenance: Michael Bryan Collection, London € 1,200 - 1,800 Wherever he painted, whether in Ireland, England or Brittany, Augustus Burke was invariably drawn to the subject-matter for which he had an affection throughout his life, namely farm life and landscape. He painted many studies of sheep, horses and cattle in particular, usually close to water in a landscape suffused with the golden tones of the late afternoon sun and in which the shad- ows are the rich, long shadows of evening.