Life
(1850–1928); b. S. Africa, of English parents; ed. Ushaw College, Durham, and King’s College, Oxford; nephew of the agent of Viscount Dillon, leading him to spend much time in Ireland during childhood; met Margaret Ryan in Australia and m. in Ireland, with whom two sons and a dg.; appt. Registrar of National Galllery of Ireland, 1894-1914; served on Georgian Soc. publishing committee and contributed exensively to accounts of irish houses;
appt. Dir. of National Gallery on death of Hugh Lane in May 1915; lectured on the history of municipal government in Dublin and Dublin street names; elected President of the Royal Society of Irish Antiquarians [RSIA] in 1925; also did research on Dublin-printed books; issued Dictionary of Irish Artists [1915]; lived on Baggott St. and retired to Newtown House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin; d. at Newtown Hse., 26 Oct. 1928. DIB/RIA
[ There is an article on Strickland by Carmel Doyle in the Dictionary of Irish Biography (RIA) - online. ]
Works
A Dictionary of Irish Artists, Deceased Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, and of those of Irish birth who have worked in England and Elsewhere, with Lists of their Works and an Account of the Art Institutions in Ireland by Walter G. Strickland, Registrar National Gallery of Ireland; one hundred and fifty portraits; Super Royal bvo. Buckram. High commendations for ‘prodigious’ and monumental’ labour from TLS and
Connoisseur (cited in Maunsel publisher’s list, appended to St. John Ervine, Mrs. Martin’s Man, 1915 pop. edn.)
Also ‘Pictures in the National Gallery’, in Irish Monthly, Vol. xliv (1916); A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, and Statues in Trinity College Dublin, and in the Provost's House (1916).
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