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    • Henry Allan RHA (1865-1912)Chickens by a CottageOil on canvas, 45.5 x 30cm (18 x 12'')Signed
      Nov. 22, 2017

      Henry Allan RHA (1865-1912)Chickens by a CottageOil on canvas, 45.5 x 30cm (18 x 12'')Signed

      Est: €1,000 - €2,000

      Henry Allan RHA (1865-1912)Chickens by a CottageOil on canvas, 45.5 x 30cm (18 x 12'')Signed

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    • Henry Allan RHA (1856 - 1912) The Rag Pickers
      Dec. 04, 2012

      Henry Allan RHA (1856 - 1912) The Rag Pickers

      Est: €30,000 - €50,000

      Henry Allan RHA (1856 - 1912) The Rag Pickers (1900) Oil on canvas, 66 x 101.5cm (26.5 x 40'') Signed Provenance: Previously in the collection of the artist Joseph Malachy Kavanagh; Purchased by the current owner circa 1974. Exhibited: 1900 RHA Annual exhibition Cat. No. 13; 1975 Crawford Gallery,Cork ROSC Chorcai ''Irish Art 1900 - 1950'' Cat. No. 1; 1977 Wexford Arts Centre ''Irish Art from Private Collections 1870 - 1930'' Cat. No. 1; 2006 Crawford Gallery,Cork ''Whipping the Herring'' Exhibition; ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' The AVA Gallery, June - Sept 2012, Cat. No. 1 Literature: Irish Art 1900-1950, ROSC 1976, p17 ''Irelands Painters 1600 - 1940'' by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin 2002 P266 (Fig 364) ''One Hundred Years of Irish Art - A Millennium Presentation'' by Eamonn Mallie P58 Full page illustration P59 ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' Exhibition Catalogue, full page illustration p8 Born in Dundalk in 1856, Henry Allan studied art in Belfast and Dublin before enrolling at the age of eighteen in the Academie Royaume in Antwerp, where Vincent van Gogh had briefly been a student. In the late nineteenth century an artist's education was not considered complete if they had not spent time studying in Paris or Belgium. Most artists chose Paris, but many Irish artists favoured Antwerp, at least before moving on to Paris. Belgium was considered a safer country for young students, and the style of paintings taught at the Academie Royaume was less radical than the Impressionism then coming into vogue in Paris. In Antwerp, Allan shared lodging with fellow Irish students Richard Nounan and Edwin Hill. He won a number of prizes for drawing and paintings, and returned to Ireland in 1990, showing that year for the first time at Royal Hibernian Academy - a work entitled ''Country Road Near Antwerp''. After living in Downpatrick for a year or so Allan moved to Dublin, where he won the Royal Dublin Society's Taylor Prize. In addition to painting mainly Victorian genre subjects such as beggars, rag-pickers, flower and match-sellers, Allan painted landscapes around counties Down and Dublin. In this painting, two women ply their meagre trade in Ringsend, a windswept coastal area close to Dublin city. The term rag-pickers used to describe those who sort through general domestic waste to identify anything that is recyclable or saleable. The theme was popular with artists who depicted the harsher side of urban life, such as Daumier in France and the Finnish painter Eero Jarneefelt. In 1900, when this painting was shown at the Royal Hibernian Academy, rag-picking would have been an extremely marginal occupation, as most households would ever, cotton rags had some value as they were used in the making of expensive hand-made paper, and so the two woman may be collecting rags to be used at Rathfarnham paper mills, or at Clondalkin, where Thomas Sears had established his factory in 1837. There was also a paper mill in Dublin city itself, at Kilmainham. One of the women turns to her companion while pointing to another group of rag-pickers in the distance, perhaps complaining that their 'patch' had been invaded. Peter Murray

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    • Henry Allan (Irish 1865-1912) 'Lagan Brook, County
      Oct. 06, 2012

      Henry Allan (Irish 1865-1912) 'Lagan Brook, County

      Est: £400 - £600

      Henry Allan (Irish 1865-1912) 'Lagan Brook, County Louth' Oil on canvas, signed 1880, 51 x 76cm

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    • Henry Allan (Irish 1865 - 1912) 'Lagan Brook,
      Sep. 01, 2012

      Henry Allan (Irish 1865 - 1912) 'Lagan Brook,

      Est: £800 - £1,200

      Henry Allan (Irish 1865 - 1912) 'Lagan Brook, County Louth' Oil on canvas, signed 1880, 51 x 76cm

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    • Henry Allan (1865-1912) Lagan Brook, County Louth,
      Dec. 05, 2009

      Henry Allan (1865-1912) Lagan Brook, County Louth,

      Est: £1,000 - £1,500

      Henry Allan (1865-1912) Lagan Brook, County Louth, 1880 Signed oil on canvas, 51x76cm

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    • Henry Allan (1865-1912) LAGAN BROOK, COUNTY LOUTH,
      May. 18, 2009

      Henry Allan (1865-1912) LAGAN BROOK, COUNTY LOUTH,

      Est: €3,000 - €4,000

      Henry Allan (1865-1912) LAGAN BROOK, COUNTY LOUTH, 1880 signed lower right; title and date inscribed on reverse oil on canvas 51 by 76cm., 20 by 30in. Henry Allan, a native of Dundalk, County Louth began his artistic training first in Belfast and Dublin before later following his contemporaries to Antwerp where he trained from 1884 to 1888. However, unlike many other artists of his day, Allan did not travel to France for further instruction, returning instead to begin his career in Ireland. Allan first exhibited in the RHA in 1889 and among the subjects he depicted were Irish landscapes as well as Dutch and Belgian interiors; testament to his previous expeditions abroad. Two years later Allan was to become a Royal Hibernian Academician and this position progressed to that of Academy Treasurer in 1909. Lagan Brook, County Louth is dated 1880 and is a rare example of the artist's early works prior to his exposure to artistic styles on the Continent. However, in its execution of the figures, certain similarities with his later work, such as Country Road Near Antwerp, catalogue no. 91 (£2-2-0), exhibited at the RHA in 1889, can be seen. Allan's work very rarely comes onto the market. The National Gallery of Ireland currently holds only one example of Henry Allan's work within its collection, Dutch Interior, which was exhibited at the RHA in 1889, catalogue no. 290 (£3-3-0).

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