Lot 30: Joseph Patrick Haverty RHA (1794-1864) GROUP PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY, WITH MOUNTAINS BEYOND

Joseph Patrick Haverty RHA (1794-1864)
GROUP PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY, c.1850
oil on canvas
indistinctly signed lower left
h:48  w:61 in.

Provenance:
Anonymous sale;
Christie's, 25 May 1979, lot 210;
Grace Pym Gallery, Dublin, October 1979;
William and Joan Roth;
Christie's, 14 May 2004, lot 67;
Private collection
Christie's, 12 May 2006, lot 24, as Group Portrait of a Family, Thought to be the Reilly Family, of Scarvagh, Stepping Ashore from a Boat, with Mountains Beyond;
Private collection

Exhibited:
Possibly A Family Group, RHA, 1851, no. 76

Literature:
A. Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, Ireland's Painters 1600-1940, New Haven and London, 2002, p.227 (referenced);
Stratton Ryan, Mary, 'Vignettes of Family Life', Irish Arts Review, spring, 2008, p.105 (illustrated, fig. 9 as The Boating Party)


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