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Born 1947 County Antrim, Ireland. Known for: Realist city view painting, watercolors, etching, drawing.
Hector McDonnell (b.1947). The Irish contemporary realist painter, watercolourist, etcher* and draughtsman* Hector McDonnell was born and brought up in County Antrim, the youngest son of the unusual... Read full biography
Hector McDonnell (b.1947). The Irish contemporary realist painter, watercolourist, etcher* and draughtsman* Hector McDonnell was born and brought up in County Antrim, the youngest son of the unusual Earl and Countess of Antrim. His mother was a dedicated sculptress and cartoonist. In 1964, Hector... Read full biography
Hector McDonnell (b.1947). The Irish contemporary realist painter, watercolourist, etcher* and draughtsman* Hector McDonnell was born and brought up in County Antrim, the youngest son of the unusual Earl and Countess of Antrim. His mother was a dedicated sculptress and cartoonist. In 1964, Hector McDonnell traveled to Munich and then Vienna to study drawing, painting and sculpture, studying for a spell under Hans Wotruba, the famous Viennese Secessionist* sculptor. McDonnell then studied... Read full biography
Hector McDonnell (b.1947). The Irish contemporary realist painter, watercolourist, etcher* and draughtsman* Hector McDonnell was born and brought up in County Antrim, the youngest son of the unusual Earl and Countess of Antrim. His mother was a dedicated sculptress and cartoonist. In 1964, Hector McDonnell traveled to Munich and then Vienna to study drawing, painting and sculpture, studying for a spell under Hans Wotruba, the famous Viennese Secessionist* sculptor. McDonnell then studied history at Oxford University, studying life figure drawing on the side. After graduating McDonnell decided to become a full time artist. He married, set up in a small studio in South London and started painting. Within two years, during which time he... Read full biography
Hector McDonnell (b.1947). The Irish contemporary realist painter, watercolourist, etcher* and draughtsman* Hector McDonnell was born and brought up in County Antrim, the youngest son of the unusual Earl and Countess of Antrim. His mother was a dedicated sculptress and cartoonist. In 1964, Hector McDonnell traveled to Munich and then Vienna to study drawing, painting and sculpture, studying for a spell under Hans Wotruba, the famous Viennese Secessionist* sculptor. McDonnell then studied history at Oxford University, studying life figure drawing on the side. After graduating McDonnell decided to become a full time artist. He married, set up in a small studio in South London and started painting. Within two years, during which time he survived by selling his pictures privately, he was given a solo exhibition at the Hamet Gallery, London. After t... Read full biography
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Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Painting, Fine Art
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Africa
- •Asia, Orient
- •Europe
- •Germany After 1900
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Irish