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Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns

Erskine Nicol, R.S.A., A.R.A.

The Seanchai

Lot Closed

November 22, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns

Erskine Nicol, R.S.A., A.R.A.

1825 - 1904

The Seanchai


oil on canvas

unframed: 49 by 61.5cm.; 19¼ by 24¼in.

framed: 65 by 77cm.; 25½ by 30¼in.

Executed circa 1848. 

Dillon Antiques, Dublin, where acquired by the late Brian P. Burns in the mid-1980s

Boston, Boston College Museum of Art, America’s Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 26 January-19 May 1996, no. 10, illustrated exh. cat. p.85, with tour to Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, A Century of Irish Painting: Selections from the Brian P. Burns Collection, 3 March - 29 April 2007, illustrated exh. cat. p. 83
Washington, John F. Kennedy Center, Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 13 - 28 May 2000, illustrated exh. cat. p.65
Thomas J. O’Gorman, ‘For All the World to See: The Brian Burns Collection’ in The World of Hibernia, Summer 1996, illustrated
Susan Moore, ‘Land of Heart’s Desire’, in Apollo, September 2009, p.66
Roger Kohn (ed.), A Rising People, The Brian P. Burns Collection of Irish Art, Nicholas Bass Ltd, Newtownabbey, 2017, illustrated p.73