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Patrick Hennessy BIOGRAPHY
1915 Cork County, Ireland - 1980. Known for: Landscae, interior, portrait and still life painting.
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork and raised in Scotland by his mother and stepfather along with his brother and sisters. He won a scholarship to the Dundee... Read full biography
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork and raised in Scotland by his mother and stepfather along with his brother and sisters. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig. A further... Read full biography
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork and raised in Scotland by his mother and stepfather along with his brother and sisters. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig. A further scholarship enabled him to study in Paris and Rome. He returned to Ireland at the outbreak of the second world war, moving alternately being Dublin and Cork. In 1941 he first exhibited at the Royal... Read full biography
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork and raised in Scotland by his mother and stepfather along with his brother and sisters. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig. A further scholarship enabled him to study in Paris and Rome. He returned to Ireland at the outbreak of the second world war, moving alternately being Dublin and Cork. In 1941 he first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, having already exhibited a still-life and a self-portrait at the Royal Scottish Academy two years earlier. Over the next thirty years he showed almost one hundred works at the RHA, ranging between Whyte's Auction.... Read full biography
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork and raised in Scotland by his mother and stepfather along with his brother and sisters. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig. A further scholarship enabled him to study in Paris and Rome. He returned to Ireland at the outbreak of the second world war, moving alternately being Dublin and Cork. In 1941 he first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, having already exhibited a still-life and a self-portrait at the Royal Scottish Academy two years earlier. Over the next thirty years he showed almost one hundred works at the RHA, ranging between Whyte's Auction.... Read full biography
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One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork and raised in Scotland by his mother and stepfather along with his brother and sisters. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig. A further scholarship enabled him to study in Paris and Rome.
He returned to Ireland at the outbreak of the second world war, moving alternately being Dublin and Cork. In 1941 he first exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy, having already exhibited a still-life and a self-portrait at the Royal Scottish AcademWhyte's Auction
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