Lot 13: Edmond Charles Ribton Byrne de Satur (fl.

Edmond Charles Ribton Byrne de Satur (fl. 1860-1885) A Lonely Dwelling Oil on canvas, 30 x 61.5cm (12 x 24¼'') Signed and extensively inscribed verso Provenance: The artist and by descent Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1882, no. 653 Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1883, no. 147 Born in Dublin, the youngest son of Lawrence Byrne, Edmond practiced from an address at 151, Great Brunswick Street as well as teaching at the Dublin Society's School from 1866. He began exhibiting consistently at the RHA from 1860 until 1873 before leaving for London in 1875. At this time he received an inheritance from an uncle and altered his surname to Byrne De Satur. Under this name he exhibited at the RA from 1879-1885 and again at the RHA from 1882-1885. He married Frances Isabella Anne Smythe (b.1853), daughter of Henry Meade Smythe (1787-1862) and Frances Barbara Cooke (1817-1906) and they had three daughters. While gifted with much natural talent, Strickland cryptically notes that 'his mode of life was hardly conductive to his advancement in his profession'. He died in Highgate, London in 1885 and his remains interred at Glasnevin. 'A Lonley Dwelling' clearly shows a debt to the artist's colony in Grez-sur-Loing and in particular, the work of Frank O'Meara. By 1885 artists like Lavery, Stott of Oldham and O'Meara were in vogue and inspired many of their contemporaries in London and Dublin to move away from the more rigorous academic approach of the established art schools to a more cutting edge en plein air handling of their subject matter.