Lot 16: Martin Cregan 1788-1870 , Portraits of Alexander Shirley Montgomery (1783-1843), his wife Anna Thomasina, née Exshaw (1783-1859), Edward John Smith (1799-1887), and his wife, Angel Theresa Montgomery (1806-1893)

All half length, the gentlemen wearing black suits and white waistcoats, Anna Thomasina wearing a black dress and a mop cap, Angela Theresa wearing a red dress A set of four, all oil on canvas Quantity: 4

measurements note each 75 by 62 cm., 29½ by 24½ in.

Royal Hibernian Academy, 1837, no. 31 (Mrs Edward Smith); Royal Hibernian Academy, 1838, no. 150 (Alexander Montgomery); Royal Hibernian Academy, 1844, no. 24 (Edward J. Smith, Esq.).

Alexander Shirley Montgomery of Ballykeel, Dromore, County Down was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Montgomery and his wife, Emily Dorothy. In 1869 he married Thomasina, daughter of the Very Rev. Frederick Owen, Dean of Leighlin. His sister, Angela Theresa, married Edward Smith.