Irish painter of portraits, genre and historical subjects. Born in Clonmell, he appears to have studied in Italy; but was following his profession in Clonmell in 1836. He was in London in 1839, and in Bath 1841-4. For the rest of his life he lived in London, visiting Ireland occasionally. Exhibited: London 1839-1871, mostly portraits: At the RA 1840-71, 51., BI 18., SS 16., VE 6. And at the RHA in 1836, 1842, 1844, 1847-8, 1850, 1853, 1856, 1858. Examples of his work ‘Francesca and Paolo of Rimini’, 1853, and ‘Children Feeding the Birds’, 1845. The National Gallery of Ireland has two portraits by him, ‘Field-Marshal Gough’, 1851 and ‘Samuel Lover’, 1856.
