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Jun. 12, 2019
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HEALY (FL.1769-1778)Portrait of Mrs Gardiner, in a romantic landscapeGrisaille pastel, 61.5 x 44.5cmIn intertwined giltwood ribbon frame surmounted by elaborate bowWilliam Healy was the younger brother of renowned 18th Cent
Est: €20,000 - €30,000
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HEALY (FL.1769-1778)Portrait of Mrs Gardiner, in a romantic landscapeGrisaille pastel, 61.5 x 44.5cmIn intertwined giltwood ribbon frame surmounted by elaborate bowWilliam Healy was the younger brother of renowned 18th Century portraitist Robert Healy who has been hailed as the most gifted Irish artist to have work in the medium of pastel.Both brothers trained in the Dublin Society's Drawing Schools and worked at a time when Dublin was celebrated as the centre of drawing and portraiture in grisaille. Following the untimely death of his brother, William assumed the position of leading pastellist in Dublin. William produced a number of copies after his late brother's work, many of which he exhibited at the Society of Artists in Dublin in 1769.This portrait has been identified as Mrs Gardiner, wife of the Right Hon. Charles Gardiner and mother of Luke Gardiner, Viscount Mountjoy and Lady Clancarty (née Anne Gardiner). Robert Healy also carried out a full-length portrait of Lady Clancarty which was subsequently copied by William.In this portrait Mrs Gardiner is captured as a woman in mourning, standing in naturalistic surrounding with her hand placed upon a pedestal supporting a memorial urn. This distinctive gilt-wood frame is found on a number of pastels by Healy. See Exhibiting Art in Georgian Ireland, catalogue number 38' (2018) for an identical example.
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Oct. 16, 2018
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HEALY (FL.1769-1778)Portrait of Mrs Gardiner, in a romantic landscapeGrisaille pastel, 61.5 x 44.5cmIn intertwined giltwood ribbon frame surmounted by elaborate bowWilliam Healy was the younger brother of renowned 18th Cent
Est: €30,000 - €50,000
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HEALY (FL.1769-1778)Portrait of Mrs Gardiner, in a romantic landscapeGrisaille pastel, 61.5 x 44.5cmIn intertwined giltwood ribbon frame surmounted by elaborate bowWilliam Healy was the younger brother of renowned 18th Century portraitist Robert Healy who has been hailed as the most gifted Irish artist to have work in the medium of pastel.Both brothers trained in the Dublin Society's Drawing Schools and worked at a time when Dublin was celebrated as the centre of drawing and portraiture in grisaille. Following the untimely death of his brother, William assumed the position of leading pastellist in Dublin. William produced a number of copies after his late brother's work, many of which he exhibited at the Society of Artists in Dublin in 1769.This portrait has been identified as Mrs Gardiner, wife of the Right Hon. Charles Gardiner and mother of Luke Gardiner, Viscount Mountjoy and Lady Clancarty (née Anne Gardiner). Robert Healy also carried out a full-length portrait of Lady Clancarty which was subsequently copied by William.In this portrait Mrs Gardiner is captured as a woman in mourning, standing in naturalistic surrounding with her hand placed upon a pedestal supporting a memorial urn. This distinctive gilt-wood frame is found on a number of pastels by Healy. See Exhibiting Art in Georgian Ireland, catalogue number 38' (2018) for an identical example.
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