Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A. (1859-1903)

Moonlight; Galway Harbour

Details

Walter Frederick Osborne, R.H.A. (1859-1903)
Moonlight; Galway Harbour
signed 'Walter Osborne' (lower left)
oil on panel
5½ x 9 in. (14 x 22.8 cm.)
Painted in 1892

Provenance

The Trustees of the Estate of Walter Osborne.

Literature

J. Sheehy, Walter Osborne, Cork, 1974, no.326, p.131.

Exhibited

Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Memorial Exhibition of Osborne's Work, Winter 1903-04, no.135 as 'Galway Harbour, Moonlight'.
probably, Cork, School of Art, Emmet Place, Pictures by the late Walter Osborne, R.H.A., William Osborne and Others, June-July 1935, no.44.

Lot Essay

The present work is similar in treatment and subject to 'Rising Moon, Galway Harbour' from the same year, which is in the collection of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, purchased through the Friends of the National Collections in January 1960.

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