The Old Fenian John O'Leary. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR 2,600.
This 19th century Irish School portrait of The Old Fenian John O’Leary (1830-1907) is at Whyte’s Irish art sale in Dublin on Monday, October 10. O’Leary, who studied both law and medicine, was imprisoned in England during the 19th century for his involvement with the Irish Republican Brotherhood. The work is estimated at 1,500-2,000.
In his poem “September 1913” W.B. Yeats laments the death of O’Leary with the line:
"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone; it's with O'Leary in the grave".
See antiquesandartireland.com post for October 3.