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Leinster's
Most Famous Visual Artists
Renowned
Leinster-born painters and sculptors, or those associated with the province,
include:
Francis
Bacon, (Expressionist Figure Paintings);
George Barret Senior,
(Landscape Paintings);
Brian Bourke, (Landscapes
and Self-Portraits);
Charles Brady, (Irish American
Landscape and Still Life Artist);
James Brenan, (Realistic
Genre Paintings);
Samuel Frederick Brocas,
(Cityscapes and Genre Canvases);
George Campbell, (Still
Life and Landscape Artist);
Lilian Lucy Davidson,
(Landscape, Portrait and Genre Painter);
Richard Kingston, (Landscape,
Still Life and Flower Painter);
Brian Maguire, (Expressionist
Painter);
Rasher (Contemporary
Figurative and Still Life Painter);
Camille Souter, (Landscape
Artist);
Stanhope Alexander Forbes,
(Anglo-French Rural Life Paintings);
Martin Gale, (Figure and Landscape
Artist);
Ken Hamilton, (Contemporary
Classical-Style Painter);
Patrick Hickey, (Etcher,
Landscape, Printmaker and Lithographic Artist);
Evie Hone, (Painter and Stained
Glass Artist);
Mainie Jellett, (Abstract
Artist and Figure Painter);
Charles Jervas, [Jarvis]
(Portraiture);
Graham Knuttel, (Figurative
Painter and Sculptor);
Louis le Brocquy, (Ireland's
greatest living painter);
William John Leech, (Plein
Air Impressionist);
Patrick Leonard, (Realism);
Maurice MacGonigal,
(Landscapes and Portraits);
Sean McSweeney, (Landscape
Paintings);
Richard Thomas Moynan,
(Genre Painter);
William Orpen, (Academic
Portraitist and War Artist);
Walter Osborne, (Irish
Impressionist);
Sean O'Sullivan, (Portraitist);
Sarah Purser, (Portraits
and Stained Glass Artist);
Sean Scully, (Abstract
Art);
Mary Swanzy, (Figure, Landscape
Artist and Portraitist);
Francis Tansey, (Contemporary
Abstract Artist);
Kenneth Webb, (Landscapes);
Leo Whelan, (Portraits and
Genre Scenes);
Mildred Anne Butler,
(Landscapes);
John Doherty, (Photo-Realist
Painter and Landscapes);
William John Hennessy,
(Landscape, Genre Painter and Illustrator);
John Lavery, (Portraitist,
War Artist);
Hughie O'Donoghue, (Contemporary
Artist);
Tony O'Malley, (Abstract
Landscape Painter).
For painters and sculptors from Ireland's
capital city, see Dublin Artists.
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