Portrait of a young girl by Charles Skottowe (1793-1842)
A rarity by a Cork artist, a portrait of a young girl playing with her mother’s jewellery box, features at the current exhibition at the Gorry Gallery in Dublin. Very few works by Charles Skottowe (1793-1842) survive. Skottowe is recorded as working in Cork in the 1820’s and exhibiting with the Cork Society for promoting the Fine Arts. He showed at the RHA in 1829.
In the following decade he exhibited with the Royal Academy and the British Institution. His portrait of Capt Sir William Edward Parry is at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and his portrait of John Ayrton Paris is in the Royal College of Physicians in London.
The exhibition of 18th to 21st century Irish paintings and sculpture, accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, runs to June 23. A still life of Crab, Fish and Vegetables by another and better known locally Cork artist
Daniel MacDonald (1820-1853) is inscribed Cork and dated 1843. There are portraits by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Nathanial Hone, William Cumming and others, landscapes and seascapes by William Ashford, James Arthur O’Connor, George Barret and Edwin Hayes as well as The Colleen Bawn and The Colleen Dhu, peasants of the County Galway, by Samuel Lover (1797-1868). The catalogue cover lot is a c1789 portrait of a young gentleman in Naples by Hugh Douglas Hamilton.
Still Life of crab, fish and vegetables by Daniel MacDonald (1820-1853)
The Colleen Bawn and the Colleen Dhu by Samuel Lover (1797-1868)