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Patrick Leonard HRHA (b.1918) FISHERMEN AND FILM

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Patrick Leonard HRHA (b.1918) FISHERMEN AND FILM

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Auction Date:2005 Apr 26 @ 18:00 (UTC+00:00 : GMT)
Location:Dublin, Ireland
Patrick Leonard HRHA (b.1918) FISHERMEN AND FILM STARS AT LOUGHSHINNY<BR>signed lower left; inscribed on reverse<BR>oil on canvas<BR>60 by 71cm., 23.5 by 28in.<BR><BR>Exhibited:<BR>RHA, Dublin, 1958, catalogue no. 25 (£30-0-0)<BR><BR>Patrick Leonard was born in Rush, Co. Dublin, the son of a master mariner. Educated locally, his early talent for art saw him enroll in 1936 at the Metropolitan School of Art, where Seán Keating and Maurice MacGonigal were among his teachers. After only a year’s tuition he had his first work accepted for public exhibition: a small oil, which hung at the Dublin Sketching Club’s annual show. The following year he was awarded a place at the Royal Academy’s painting school in London, but illness and circumstance intervened, as the school was closed for the duration of WWII. He therefore remained in Dublin, attending classes sporadically at the School of Art. In 1941 he first showed with the RHA; among the four exhibits were The Beach and Rush Harbour, indicating the sorts of subjects which would preoccupy him thenceforth, and on the basis of these and another three works shown the following year, was rapidly elected an associate member of the Academy in 1942. Two years later he held his first one-man exhibition at Victor Waddington’s Gallery in South Anne Street, Dublin, an honour accorded him again in 1946 when he was given a second exhibition with Waddington. In the 1950s he began teaching art at Sandford Park School in Ranelagh; in later years he also taught at the Killester Technical School and the Mercy College in Coolock. He continued to show regularly at the RHA and the annual Oireachtas exhibitions during these years, but it was not until 1979 that he had another solo exhibition, this time with the Oriel Gallery, Dublin. Four years later he was elected an honorary member of the RHA and in 1990 the Gorry Gallery accorded him a well-received full retrospective. He continues to paint in his studio near Skerries, Co. Dublin.<BR>