Lot 103: Richard Staunton Cahill, (1826-1904) A SMALL WAGER, 1860 signed and dated lower right oil on canvas 46 by 36cm., 18 by 14in. Provenance: Sotheby's,

Richard Staunton Cahill, (1826-1904) A SMALL WAGER, 1860 signed and dated lower right oil on canvas 46 by 36cm., 18 by 14in. Provenance: Sotheby's, Belgravia, 10 March 1981, lot 225 (illustrated in catalogue); Private collection, Dublin Exhibited: Literature: Notes: Born in Co. Clare, the eldest child of Charles Staunton Cahill JP, Richard S. Cahill entered the Royal Hibernian Academy's school in 1850 The next year he began exhibiting at the RHA, showing a further two dozen works there in the following years, the last in 1900. Strickland records he moved to London in 1853, but records of the societies with which he exhibited, including the RA and the RBA, reveal a peripatetic existence, teaching for a period at Nottingham School of Art and changing studios frequently. The titles of his paintings also reveal visits home to his family in Clare and Galway, eg. Leaving a Country Chapel, West of Ireland (RHA 1881), A Galway Boy (RBA 1865), and On the Golf Links at Lahinch (RHA 1896). He died 7 July 1904.