Category Archives: Irish

Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

Author, dean of St.Patricks, Dublin, wrote Gulliver’s Travels.
Artist: George Vertue, after Charles Jervas

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

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Robert Boyle 1627-1691

Robert Boyle FRS was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method

Artist: William Faithorne

Size 20 x 16 cms

Price £SOLD

 

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Martin Archer Shee 1769-1850

The Irish-born Shee was primarily a portrait painter. He moved to London in 1788 where, after working as an engraver, he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1790. He was elected a full academician in 1805 An energetic reformer, Shee published Rhymes on Art, or the Remonstrance of a Painter (1800) which called for national support for the arts.

Artist: Sir Martin Archer Shee

Size 19 x 13 cms

Price £18.00

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Laurence Sterne 1713-1768

Laurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
Artist: Reynolds
Date:
Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

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Laurence Sterne 1713-1768

Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
Artist: Vertielst
Date:
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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Sir Richard Steele 1672-1729

Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator
Artist: R.Cooper
Date:
Size 9 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Laurence Sterne 1713-1768

Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
Artist: Renolds
Date:
Size 8 x 11 cms
Price £14.00

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Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774 author

Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur’d Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He is thought to have written the classic children’s tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes.
Size 16 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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Edmund Burke 1729-1797 statesman

Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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