| Irish landscape painter in a classical tradition. Trained in Dublin under Robert West and died there 1812. He etched a portrait in Dublin 1752, but was in Rome by 1755 and only left in 1782, having conceivably travelled as far as Athens. He is said to have become very expert in imitating (and perhaps faking) the work of Claude, and he certainly also studied Gaspard Poussin. Exh. (from Rome) SA 1763, 1773 and 1776; RA 1771, 1777-84, when he returned to Dublin. Five Gaspardesque 'Views near Dublin* of c. 1785-87 are at Belvoir Castle. In 1787 he was appointed Cork Herald and he sent pictures to exhibitions in Dublin 1802 and 1812. |
