Robert Richard Scanlan

Robert Richard Scanlan

Robert Richard Scanlan sometimes known as R. R. Scanlan (1801 – 1876) was an Irish painter and portraitist.

A resident of Dublin in the 1820s, he exhibited portraits at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1826-1864), and was later Master of the Cork School of Design. [ [http://www.whytes.ie/Biographies/BiogsQtoZ.htm#scanlan Whytes Biographies of Irish Art and Irish Artists M-P ] ] He painted portraits and watercolour portrait groups, described by Professor Anne Crookshank of Trinity College in Dublin as "charmingly evocative of the leisured society of Victorian Ireland". [ [http://www.crawfordartgallery.com/1851-1875.html Cork Art History (1851-1875) ] ] He spent his later life in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy (1837-1859).

Two of his best known works were portraits of Prime Ministers, Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington [ [http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1811.asp 10 Downing Street Website] ]

References

*"Irish Watercolours and Drawings: Works on Paper C.1600-1914" By Anne Crookshank, Knight of Glin. (page 331)


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