Irish Art

Irish Art

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Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns

William Sadler II

Donnybrook Fair

Lot Closed

November 22, 03:23 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of the late Brian P. Burns

William Sadler II

1782 - 1839

Donnybrook Fair


oil on panel

unframed: 37 by 61cm.; 14½ by 24in.

framed: 52.5 by 76.5cm.; 20¾ by 30¼in.

Executed circa 1806. 

Christie's, Dublin, 24 October 1988, lot 25
Dillon Antiques, Dublin, 1998, where acquired by the late Brian P. Burns

Roger Kohn (ed.), A Rising People, The Brian P. Burns Collection of Irish Art, Nicholas Bass Ltd, Newtownabbey, 2017, illustrated p.58
Boston, Boston College Museum of Art, America’s Eye: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 26 January - 19 May 1996, no.3, illustrated, p.73, with tour to Dublin, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 19 June - 25 August 1996 and New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 25 September 1997 - 4 January 1998; Washington, John F. Kennedy Center, Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns, 13 - 28 May 2000, illustrated, p.89;
Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, A Century of Irish Painting: Selections from the Brian P. Burns Collection, 3 March - 29 April 2007, illustrated, p.94;