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1865 County Limerick, Ireland - 1945. Known for: Figure, portrait and landscape painting, teaching.
Dermod O'Brien PRHA, HRA (1865-1945). The Irish portraitist, landscape and figure painter Dermod O'Brien was born in County Limerick in 1865, a grandson of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien. He... Read full biography
Dermod O'Brien PRHA, HRA (1865-1945). The Irish portraitist, landscape and figure painter Dermod O'Brien was born in County Limerick in 1865, a grandson of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien. He attended Harrow School and Cambridge University, before visiting the Continent in 1886 to study the... Read full biography
Dermod O'Brien PRHA, HRA (1865-1945). The Irish portraitist, landscape and figure painter Dermod O'Brien was born in County Limerick in 1865, a grandson of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien. He attended Harrow School and Cambridge University, before visiting the Continent in 1886 to study the paintings of the Old Masters* in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The following year he was in Italy and determined upon a career as an artist. Later in 1887, like Richard Moynan, Roderic O'Conor and... Read full biography
Dermod O'Brien PRHA, HRA (1865-1945). The Irish portraitist, landscape and figure painter Dermod O'Brien was born in County Limerick in 1865, a grandson of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien. He attended Harrow School and Cambridge University, before visiting the Continent in 1886 to study the paintings of the Old Masters* in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The following year he was in Italy and determined upon a career as an artist. Later in 1887, like Richard Moynan, Roderic O'Conor and Norman Garstin, he enrolled at the Antwerp Academy to study under Charles Verlat. Walter Osborne was a fellow student. In Antwerp, O'Brien won a silver medal for drawing. In 1891, Dermod O'Brien attended the Academie Julian* in Paris where he befriended... Read full biography
Dermod O'Brien PRHA, HRA (1865-1945). The Irish portraitist, landscape and figure painter Dermod O'Brien was born in County Limerick in 1865, a grandson of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien. He attended Harrow School and Cambridge University, before visiting the Continent in 1886 to study the paintings of the Old Masters* in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The following year he was in Italy and determined upon a career as an artist. Later in 1887, like Richard Moynan, Roderic O'Conor and Norman Garstin, he enrolled at the Antwerp Academy to study under Charles Verlat. Walter Osborne was a fellow student. In Antwerp, O'Brien won a silver medal for drawing. In 1891, Dermod O'Brien attended the Academie Julian* in Paris where he befriended the artist William Rothenstein. By 1894, Dermod O'Brien was at the Slade School of Fine Art* in London, shar... Read full biography
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Dermod O'Brien PRHA, HRA (1865-1945)
The Irish portraitist, landscape and figure painter Dermod O'Brien was born in County Limerick in 1865, a grandson of the Irish patriot William Smith O'Brien. He attended Harrow School and Cambridge University, before visiting the Continent in 1886 to study the paintings of the Old Masters* in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The following year he was in Italy and determined upon a career as an artist. Later in 1887, like Richard Moynan, Roderic O'Conor and Norman Garstin, he enrolled at the Antwerp Academy to study under Charles Verlat. Walter Osborne was a fellow student. In Antwerp, O'Brien won a silver medal for drawing.
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