Lot 242: Darius Joseph MacEgan (1856-1939) Arthur Griffiths

Darius Joseph MacEgan (1856-1939) Arthur Griffiths pencil
signed lower left with date [1922], signed and inscribed with title on backing board
46 by 36cm., 18 by 14in.
Provenance:
A. Bassi, Wellington Quay, Dublin, framing label on reverse
A scarce contemporaneous portrait of the founder of Sinn Féin.
Darius Joseph MacEgan, also known as "The MacEgan" (he was the last of a line of direct descendents of the clan MacEgan), was born in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. He studied at the School of Art in Dublin and later in London, and first exhibited at the RHA in 1881. The Gorry Gallery held a memorial exhibition of his work in 1940.