Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns
James Whaite
Bantry Bay
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November 22, 03:35 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns
James Whaite
fl.1867-1896
Bantry Bay
signed James Whaite, titled and dated 1876 (lower left)
watercolour
unframed: 60 by 95.5cm., 23½ by 37½in.
framed: 84 by 120cm.; 33 by 47in.
Executed in 1876.
Dillon Antiques, Dublin, 1988, where acquired by the late Brian P. Burns
Roger Kohn (ed.), A Rising People, The Brian P. Burns Collection of Irish Art, Nicholas Bass Ltd, Newtownabbey, 2017, illustrated p.84
Living in Manchester and Liverpool, Whaite travelled England, Wales and Ireland painting landscapes. One work titled The Lower Lake, Killarney was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1878, shortly after the present watercolour was made. Under a bright sky, travellers make their way along the road in Bantry Bay, Co. Cork.
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