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Lot Essay
'Thomas Bodkin spoke of the Irish love of landscape, and forecast that there would be a revival in landscape painting. Nature has provided a vital source of inspiration to Irish artists throughout the 20th Century...'1.
Hone painted numerous landscapes to be exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy shows. In this instance he depicts an Irish summer's day. The cattle graze, a figure can be seen approaching the oxen from behind, and there are further suggestions of life along the shore line beyond.
Hone married Magdalen Jameson of St Marnock's, Malahide in 1872, and continued to live by the Malahide estuary for years, giving him the opportunity to depict such seascapes and develop his ever increasing Impressionist sensibilities
This painting is listed as number fourteen amongst over 550 oil paintings that were listed in the inventory of Mrs Nathaniel Hone's own art collection at her death in 1918.3
1 J. Campbell, Exhibition Catalogue Nathaniel Hone the Younger 1831-1917, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1991. p. 16.
2 ibid, p. 137.
3 T. Bodkin, Four Irish Landscape Painters, Dublin, 1987. Appendix XVI.
Hone painted numerous landscapes to be exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy shows. In this instance he depicts an Irish summer's day. The cattle graze, a figure can be seen approaching the oxen from behind, and there are further suggestions of life along the shore line beyond.
Hone married Magdalen Jameson of St Marnock's, Malahide in 1872, and continued to live by the Malahide estuary for years, giving him the opportunity to depict such seascapes and develop his ever increasing Impressionist sensibilities
This painting is listed as number fourteen amongst over 550 oil paintings that were listed in the inventory of Mrs Nathaniel Hone's own art collection at her death in 1918.