Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns
William Osborne, R.H.A.
A Moment of Liberty
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November 22, 03:34 PM GMT
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5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns
William Osborne, R.H.A.
1823-1901
A Moment of Liberty
signed with monogram (lower left); also signed W Osborne, titled and indistinctly inscribed with the artist's address (on a label attached to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
unframed: 35.5 by 41cm.; 14 by 16in.
framed: 54.5 by 58.5cm.; 21½ by 23in.
Executed circa 1885.
Gorry Gallery, Dublin, where acquired by the late Brian P. Burns in 1996
Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1882, no.136
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, America’s Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 25 September 1997 - 4 January 1998
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, America’s Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 25 September 1997 - 4 January 1998
Roger Kohn (ed.), A Rising People, The Brian P. Burns Collection of Irish Art, Nicholas Bass Ltd, Newtownabbey, 2017, illustrated p.91
William Osborne was a distinguished animal painter who exhibited regularly at the Royal Hibernian Academy. Titled A Moment of Liberty, the present works depicts the freedom suddenly bestowed to a horse who has lost its rider in battle. Academically rendered, it also possesses a light humour characteristic of the artist's work.
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