Lot 114: Stephen Catterson-Smith Jnr PRHA (1849-1912) ON THE BANKS OF THE DODDER, COUNTY DUBLIN

signed lower right; with original inscribed label on reverse giving title and price (£30-0-0)

h:20 w:30in.

oil on canvas

Private collection, Connecticut;
Private collection, Dublin;
Whyte's, 22 February 2005, lot 104;
Private collection

In the original carved giltwood frame with framing label and canvas maker’s stamp of J. D. Spence, 38 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. Also with the label of R. Strahan & Co. Ltd., Removals & Warehousing, Stephen’s Green & Hogan Place, and with a printed label: “Liverpool, 1902, R. Jackson & Sons”. Born at 42 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, Stephen Catterson Smith was named after his father, a prominent Irish portrait painter and President of the RHA. Upon his father’s death in 1872, he inherited Catterson Smith Senior’s flourishing portrait business and thenceforth showed over 150 portraits at the annual RHA exhibitions. He also painted regularly in Scotland and both Scottish and Irish landscapes were regularly exhibited at the Academy. Judging by the titles of works such as On the Liffey (RHA, 1899, no. 153 and RHA, 1900, no. 218) and the River Lee, Co. Cork (RHA, 1901, no. 211), riverside scenes were favoured.