Lot 163: George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson (Irish, 1806-1884)

The entrance to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
signed
oil on canvas
69 x 103 cm. (27 1/4 x 40 1/2 in.)

Dublin, Royal Hibernian Academy, 1845, no. 393.

Atkinson spent his early life at sea as a ship's carpenter and later became 'Government Surveyor of Shipping and Emigrants' at Queenstown, New Zealand. He exhibited twenty-one marine sublects at the R.H.A. mainly depicting scenes around Ireland.