Life
?-1782; b. Cloyne, Co. Cork; at first a sailor; first noticed in Dublin, 1740; produced portraits of family groups such as The Bateson Family (1762; Ulster Museum) and The Corbally Family (NGI); admired for floral and still-life details; also worked in England. ODNB
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References
Ann Cruikshank and the Knight of Glin [Desmond Fitzgerald], Irish Portraits 1600-1860 [Catalogue] (1969), speaks of him as coming from Cork: ‘a little known and ... often a good painter whose style
develops from contacts with Dublin.’ (p.16.)
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