Robert_Richard_Scanlan

Robert Richard Scanlan

Robert Richard Scanlan

Irish artist

Robert Richard Scanlan (1801–1876), sometimes known as R. R. Scanlan, was an Irish painter and portraitist.

Sir Robert Peel
by Robert Richard Scanlan
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
W. H. Hall after Robert Richard Scanlan
8th King's Royal Irish Hussars (1850)
Robert Richard Scanlan

A resident of Dublin in the 1820s, he exhibited portraits at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1826–1864), and was later Master of the Cork School of Design.[1] He painted portraits and watercolour portrait groups, described by Professor Anne Crookshank of Trinity College Dublin as charmingly evocative of the leisured society of Victorian Ireland.[2] He spent his later life in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy (1837–1859).

Two of his best known works were portraits of Prime Ministers, Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Whyte's Biographies of Irish Art and Irish Artists
  2. [2]
    Cork Art History (1851-1875) Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    10 Downing Street Website Archived 2007-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
  • Irish Watercolours and Drawings: Works on Paper C.1600-1914 By Anne Crookshank, Knight of Glin. (page 331)
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