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Rackard, Liz
Rafferty, Eddie ARUA
When Eddie Rafferty left school he became a leather worker with the Gilford (Co.Down) firm of Shane Wright, who made saddles, handbags and belts. At the same time he attended art classes at night at Lurgan Technical College. Here me met the artist Neil Shawcross who was so impressed by his work that he encouraged him to paint more and more. Eventually this led him onto a place at Belfast College of Art where he received an Honours degree in printmaking and drawing…..more to follow
“Street Hawker” oil on canvas (16″ x 16″), sold at Ross’s – 13/5/2015 for £500.00.
Rafter, Mike
I am a self-taught painter living in Castletown, County Laois. My educational and work background is in electronics and computing though I have always been fascinated by art. For as long as I can remember, drawing and painting have been part of my life. Though I am primarily self-taught I am always trying to improve my craft by participating in workshops given by leading artists.
I work with oils, acrylics & watercolours. My favourite medium is oil paint which, in my opinion, offers a versatility that cannot be matched by any other medium.
Please get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a painting.
Left to right: “Castletown Mill & Weir” oil on linen (30″ x 30″) and “Merlin” breezes through Kilbricken oil on canvas panel (12″ X 16″).
Left to right: “Of Castles & Kings” oil on panel (16″ x 12″); “Youghal Lighthouse” acrylic on canvas panel (18″ x 14″); “Equilibrium?” oil on canvas panel (24″ x 20″) and Self portrait with unkempt hair – oil on Panel (17.5″ x 13.5″).
Raftery, Bredhe (1933 – 2007)
Left to right: “On the road to Sneem” oil on canvas (19.5″ x 29.5″) and “18th Hole, Fota” (15.5″ x 23.5″), sold at Woodwards – 26/8/2017 for €110.00 and €45 respectively.
Rainey, Dan (fl.1930s)
Rainey’s work can be found in the collections of the National Museum Northern Ireland and Ards & North Down Borough Council.
“Reginald’s Tower, Waterford” oil on canvas laid on board (8″ x 14″), sold at Whyte’s – 17/2/2020 for €180.00.
“William.III. landing at Carrickfergus, 1690” oil on canvas.
Rainey, Doris
“Yachts on the Rover at Comber, County Down” oil on canvas (18″ x 22″), sold at Ross’s – 11/9/2019 for £30.00.
“The Ulster Prince ferry” watercolour drawing (8″ x 13″), sold at Ross’s – 17/8/2022 for £60.00.
Rainey, Stanley
Belfast artist.
“Ballymorron Bay” oil on canvas (12″ x 16″), sold at Gormley’s – 3/12/2019 for £80.00.
Rákóczi, Basil Ivan (1908 – 1979)
Of Irish/Hungarian parentage landscape artist, still-life and figure painter Basil Rakoczi, was born in London in 1908. His mother, an artist’s model, was a native of County Cork. After a childhood spent in England and France, he studied painting and drawing at the Brighton School of Art. He then went to Paris where he studied fine art at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.
“Keel, Achill, Co.Mayo” oil on board (19.5″ x 25″), sold at Whyte’s – 31/5/2021 for €6,000.
Raleigh, May (d.)
May Raleigh was a professional artist, who studied at the National College of Art in Dublin, where her teachers included Sean Keating and Maurice MacGonigal. In 1962 she established an art school at her house in Mullingar which she ran for over thirty years.
She travelled extensively, and painted in Spain, the Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Italy, Israel, Bulgaria and Romania. Much of her work is in private collections….
Ramage, John (1748 – 1802)
Dublin born Irish/American artist best known for painting portrait miniatures.
Ranalow, Brian (1947)
Brian Ranalow was born in Cork in 1947, attended Newtown School Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with Engineering and Arts degrees in 1969. He now lives in Dublin but spends much of his time in Spain with the Mediterranean landscape strongly represented in his recent work. He is on the Board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and on the Council of the Contemporary Irish Art Society.
“Road to Kinvara” acrylic on board (24″ x 24″), unsold at Whyte’s – 15/5/2008.
Ray, Margaret
Margaret Ray is a Limerick born artist who studied at the Limerick School of Art in the 1960’s.
Reaney, Pádraic (1952)
Pádraic Reaney was born in Carraroe, County Galway. Having left school at the age of 12 he is basically self-taught although he went to art college for a few years encouraged by the well-known sculptor Oisin Kelly and has been a full-time artist since leaving college. He painted for several years in Galway; later he built a studio in Moycullen, where he now lives and works.
“Two Wrens Perched on Reeds” 1976, watercolour (7″ x 7.5″) erroneously described by the auctioneer as – Two Woodcock Perched on Reeds – sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 10/1/2022 for €100.00.
Reardon, Anne
Limerick artist.
More here: Anne-Reardon-Art
Redpath, J
Assumed to be an Irish artist.
“Glenveagh, County Donegal” oil on canvas (23.5″ x 33.5″), sold at Irish Country Home Group (Galway) – 25/7/2021 for €60.
Redpath, T
Assumed to be an Irish artist.
“Muckish, County Donegal” oil on canvas (26.5″ x 33.5″).
Reed, Louis RUA (1886 – 1977)
Left to right: “Venice” mixed media (28″ x 26″), sold at Ross’s – 23/5/2018 for £100.00; and “The Towers” watercolour drawing (18″ x 25″), sold at Ross’s – 15/7/2020 for £30.00.
“Danse Macabre” pen and ink drawing with watercolour wash (15″ x 14″), unsold at Ross’s – 23/3/2022.
Reed, Tina
Reel, Patrick (1935)
“River at Navan” oil on canvas (11″ x 15″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 13/3/2017 for €240.00.
Untitled abstract landscape, oil on canvas (31.5″ x 32″), sold at Adams, Blackrock – 2/11/2021 for €950.00.
Regan, Lilian
“Blue Tits on Hawthorn” watercolour (25″ x 23″) – exhibited at The Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Exhibition in April 2018.
Reid, Brian
Dublin artist?
Reid, Chris (1918 – 2006)
Originally from Ballina, Co. Mayo, Chris Reid moved to Dublin in the 1930s where she studied dress design at the Grafton Academy. Later she attended the College of Art, Dublin and joined the Graphic Studio where she studied the art of printmaking. She served as a committee member of the Graphic Studio and the Watercolour Society of Ireland. Her work is included in the Arts Council, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery and An Taisce Collections.
“View of Parkgate Street from the Phoenix Park” lithographic print (15/16), sold at Herman & Wilkinson – 2/5/2018 for €120.00.
“The Splash ” limited edition lithographic print # 7/8 (19″ x 25″), sold at Adams – 28/6/2023 for €100.00.
Reid, Darby (-1997)
“Farm, County Antrim” watercolour drawing (7″ x 11″), sold at Ross’s – 25/3/2020 for £60.
Reid, Desmond (1947)
“Scrabo from Ballydrain Road” oil on canvas (14″ x 18″), sold at Ross’s – 1/3/2017 for £80.
“Red Bay, County Antrim” oil on canvas (16″ x 30″), sold at Ross’s – 13/9/2017 for £140.00.
Reid, E
“Baltimore, Sea Cottages” oil on canvas (19″ x 31″), unsold at Hegarty’s, Bandon – 28/11/2021.
Reid, Eileen Florence (1894 – 1981)
Dublin born artist.
“An Officer” dated 1923, oil on canvas (27.5″ x 21″) and “The Red Waistcoat” oil on canvas (24″ x 16″) sold as a pair at Whyte’s – 26/5/2014 for €750.00.
Reid, Gareth (1974)
Northern Irish portrait artist.
Reid, Iseult
“The Four Courts” pastel, sold at Sean Eacrett’s – 15/5/2021 for €150.00.
Reidy, Deborah
Reilly, Breda
Reilly, Liam
“Tending the Sheep” oil on canvas (16″ x 20″), unsold at Ross’s 1/3/2017.
“Traveller’s Stop” oil on canvas (16″ x 20″), unsold at Ross’s – 13/2/2019.
Revington-Cross, Hazel
Born in County Westmeath.
Left to right: “Sunflowers” oil on canvas board (20″ x 24″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 13/3/2017 for €550.00; and “Birch and Bluebells” oil on canvas (20″ x 24″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 19/6/2017 for €440.00.
Reynolds, Bernard (1952)
Sligo born artist.
“Gorse, Early Spring” oil on board (11″ x 14″), unsold at Whyte’s – 8/12/2015.
“Irish Landscape” oil on canvas (21″ x 29″), sold at Dolan’s (Connemara Auction – Aug.2016) for €400.00.
Reynolds, Cathy
Reynolds, Larry
Dublin watercolour artist.
Reynolds, Mary
“Teddy Bears” oil on canvas (16″ x 20″), unsold at Mullen’s (Laurel Park) – 12/3/2018.
Rhymer, J P
“Idiom” dated 2003, oil on canvas (32″ x 35″), unsold – 22/5/2014 at Andrew Smith & Son, Winchester.
Riboulet, Eugène RUA (1883 – 1972)
French-born artist, originally from near Lyons, Riboulet studied art at that city’s Ecole Nationale des BeauxArts from 1902-1906. During the 1930s he became an art teacher, eventually settling in Northern Ireland in 1952 after marrying an Ulsterwoman, Elizabeth Brown. His landscape paintings fit well into the Irish tradition and show more than a passing resemblance to those of Paul Henry.
“Summer Evening in the Ards” oil on canvas (16″ x 26″), sold at Ross’s – 3/5/2017 for £180.00.
“Brickworks Near Killough” oil on canvas (15.5″ x 19.5″).
Richards, Walter (fl.1900 – 1910)
“The Queen’s Hotel, Queenstown, Co.Cork” oil on board (11″ x 17″)), sold at Woodward’s – 30/5/2020 for €1,500.
Richards, William Derek
“Landscape, County Wicklow” oil on canvas (20″ x 24″), sold at Ross’s – 7/11/2018 for £20.00.
“Two Roads Diverged” oil on canvas (36″ x 45″), sold at Mealy’s – 23/7/2019 for €340.00.
Richardson, Paul
Amateur watercolour artist from County Dublin.
Richardson, Victor (1952)
“The Yellow Gable, Grand Canal” oil on canvas (20″ x 30″) available from the Oriel Gallery ‘The Collectors’ Salon 2016′
“Crosshaven” pastel (32.5″ x 44.5″).
“Poppy” 2002, pastel (8″ x 10″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 25/11/2019 for €480.00.
Richey, A
“Summertime in the Mournes” oil on board (14″ x 18″), sold at Ross’s – 21/4/2021 for £40.00.
Richmond, Julie-Anne (1985)
Julie-Anne Richmond was born in County Tyrone, and graduated in Fine & Applied Arts from the University of Ulster in Belfast.
Ridgeway, Ken
Painting for me has been a life long hobby and love. I had a busy work life and found that painting was a great way to relax. Ten years ago I decided to take the the next step and did a 2 year painting course with artist John Dinan in his studio in Mayo. This involved all techniques and styles ending with an exhibition in Cong art gallery. I have displayed on Merrion Sq. and St.Stephen’s Green, where I was quite successful, as well as local exhibitions.
I moved to Greystones from Killester in Dublin six years ago. I look for any subject that suggests an interesting painting to me, although that might not work out all the time!
Recently the seashore in Greystones has become an inspiration for me. It changes every day with the tides and weather. I mostly work in acrylics, but I use oils and watercolour if the subject suggests a different painting medium.
More here: Ken-Ridgeway-Art
“A Windy day at the Cove” acrylic (10″ x 30″).
Left to right: Caption needed and “Cormorants drying their wings on the rocks” acrylic on canvas (10″ x 12″).
Rigden, Sylvia (1960)
www.houseonthesheepshead.com/sylvi-art
Sylvi retired to West Cork from the UK and is a self taught hobby painter using acrylic on canvas. She enjoys painting the stone ruins that she finds in the landscape where she lives on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula, painting from her own photographs.
Left to right: “House Ruin, Carravilleen, Sheep’s Head” and “Stone Ruin, Farranamanagh, Sheep’s Head“.
“In Memory of Jasmine” – a commission.
Rigney, Frank (1882 – 1962)
Riley, J H (active 1930’s)
“Old Irish Cottage, near Newcastle, Co.Down” dated 1936, watercolour, sold on eBay – 19/5/2020 for £29.99.
Ruth Riordan
A full time professional artist, working out of her studio in Birdhill, County Tipperary.
Prints and originals are available directly from the artist’s website and commissions are welcome.
Left to right: “The Waking Dream” and “Leo the Lion“.
Ritchie, Ron (1965)
Newtownards artist.
“Scrabo Tower” oil on canvas (20″ x 30″), sold at Ross’s – 7/10/2020 for £100.00.
Rivers, Elizabeth RHA (1903 – 1964)
Wood engraver, illustrator and semi-abstract artist, born in Hertfordshire, England.
“Graneen” (1944) by the Anglo Irish author Sean Dorman, aka Richard John Stewart Dorman, with illustrations by Elizabeth Rivers.
“Group of men and cow” (10″ x 14″) oil on board.
A useful synopsis of her life here: An English Artist in Ireland
Roberts, Constance
“The Path, Kilmoney, Carrigaline, Co.Cork” mixed media (11″ x 15.5″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 26/4/2021 for €200.00.
Roberts, Hilda RHA (1901 – 1982)
“Portrait of Arnold Marsh” oil on canvas (30″ x 24″), sold at Ross’s – 7/11/2018 for £600.00.
“Ethel: reading on a haystack” 1924, watercolour and pencil (9″ x 13″), sold at Whyte’s – 18/10/2021 for €620.00.
Roberts, Thomas (1748 – 1778)
“The Sheet of Water at Carton Park, Co. Kildare, with the Duke and Duchess of Leinster out walking, and gardeners rolling a serpentine path in the foreground” oil on canvas (44″ x 60″) sold at Christies, London – 19/5/2000 for £454,750.00.
“Fox Hunting in Co.Fermanagh, Ireland, with a view of Lough Erne” (1771) oil on canvas – in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
“The Weir in Lucan House Demesne” oil on canvas (15″ x 22″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s (RDS Sale) – 29/4/2019 for €36,000.
Roberts, Thomas Sautelle RHA (c.1760 – 1826)
“Military Road, 1802” watercolour. Sold at Whyte’s 10/10/2011 – €9,500.00.
This watercolour is one of several painted by the artist showing the construction of the Wicklow Military Road after the 1798 rebellion. The view is northwards towards Glencree, with a roadside quarry to the right and the cliffs above Lower Lough Bray to the left. The partially constructed road snakes downhill, with a puff of smoke to indicate quarrying. More here.
Left to right: A pair, of pencil and watercolours, (19 x 25½) and (18¼ x 25¾) dating from 1798 – A View of the Valley of Glencree depicts The Lord Lieutenant, The Earl of Hardwicke, in scarlet coat and the Chief Secretary, The Rt. Hon. Charles Abbot, surveying the site of the proposed site of the Military Barracks. The new military road, on which are held numerous horses, climbs to the left crossing the river. The Glencree Barracks and Military Road were built as access to the mountains on account of the Irish Rebellion of 1798; and A View of Powerscourt shows the Golden Spears to the right (the Small and Big Sugar Loaves) and Bray Head beyond, in County Wicklow. In the foreground, the Chief Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Charles Abbot, mounted on his horse, is inspecting work on the military road and is saluted by a soldier wearing a kilt. www.adams.ie Sold at Adam’s – 31/5/2017 for €18,000.
Robertson, Charles (1760 – 1821)
Portrait miniature of a Lady, wearing a white décolleté dress, her dark hair curled and upswept, cloud and sky background watercolour on an ivory gold frame, (2.6” high), sold at Chiswick Auctions, London – 12/6/2018 for £300.00.
Robertson, Harry Durdin (1985)
Robertson Craig, Henry RHA (1916 – 1984)
“Boys playing at the River” oil on board (10″ x 14″) sold at Whyte’s – 13/3/2001 for €4,570.00.
“Villa Domino” 1968, oil on canvas (20″ x 34″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 4/12/2017 for €3,200.
Robinson, Ann Marjorie (1858 – 1924)
Belfast born artist.
Robinson, Annie
“Coastal Village” acrylic on canvas (14″ x 29″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 24/10/2016 for €1,300.00.
Robinson, Markey (1918 – 1999)
“Going to Mass” pen and wash (5″ x 7″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 26/6/2017 for €340.00.
Markey Robinson: A Life – The Retrospective by Susan Stairs
Published by Shorthall-Stairs (1998) – limited edition of 1,000 copies in hardback – first published in 1988.
Robinson, Maureen
Robinson, Nicholas Benedict
www.nicholasbenedictrobinson.com
Robinson, Patrick
“Shawlies” oil on canvas (23.5″ x 31.5″), sold at Hegarty’s, Bandon – 28/11/2021 for €150.00.
Robinson, Ray
“Low Tide, Connemara” oil on board (12″ x 15.5″).
Robinson, Thomas (1756 – 1810)
Review of the Belfast Yeomanry by the Lord Lieutenant, The Earl Hardwicke, 27 August 1804 oil on canvas (64″ x 95″). © Belfast Harbour Commissioners.
Robinson, Wendy
Wendy Robinson is a freelance artist working within the building sector in Northern Ireland, producing illustrations for major building firms and estate agents.
Untitled water colour drawing (13″ x 21″).
Roch, Sampson Towgood (1759 – 1847)
Miniature painter from Youghal, County Cork who was born deaf and dumb.
Portrait miniature of an officer, watercolour on (2.5″ high), sold at Chiswick Auctions, London – 3/10/2018 for £2,500.
Roche, Fiona
Roche, Marie
www.marierocheartist.wordpress.com
An emerging abstract artist originally from Cork but now based in Dublin. Working as a nurse for more than seven years she recently became interested in cultivating her artistic talent. She held her first solo art exhibition in July 2017 entitled ‘Colourful Moments – Embracing Change’ which was a resounding success. Her theme for that exhibition was acrylic abstract flowers, ranging from A2-A5 in size, all mounted and framed. She recently took part in the People’s Art on St. Stephen’s Green which she found very positive and motivating as an up and coming artist. Marie is in her final year of completing a diploma in Art Psychotherapy – Person Centered Approach which has opened many doors to allow her to express herself through art without the pressure of performance and outcome.
Left to right: “Liberating Euphoria“, “Perfect Imperfection” and “The Final Chapter” – all acrylic.
Roche, Oisín (1973)
Oisín Roche was born in Dublin. He studied painting at the Dun Laoghire College of Art and Design from 1989 to 1991.
Top: “Summer, Dun Laoghaire Main Street, 2010” oil on board (13.5″ x 17.5″).
Bottom: “Oriental Still Life” oil on canvas (20″ x 27″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 19/6/2017 for €650.00.
Roche, Tom (1940)
“Mailboat Dun Laoghaire Harbour” oil on canvas (30″ x 40″), sold at Adam’s – 22/11/2017 for €2,800.
“Boats in the Harbour” watercolour (21″ x 29″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 27/1/2020 for €550.00.
Rochfort, Constance Emily (b.1872)
Dublin born amateur artist.
Left to right: “Breezy day on the Bog” watercolour; “On the lake at Caragh, Co.Kerry” watercolour (6.75″ x 10″) sold at Dolan’s – 13/10/2013 for €485.00, and “Calgary Moor” (sic) a watercolour (7″ x 12″), almost certainly Calary Moor with Great Sugar Loaf in background, which sold at Ross’s – 7/10/2015 for £45.00.
Rochfort, J D
Before the Hunt: The artist, Hon. Edmund Boyle on ‘Picadilly’, Col. Rt. Boyle, Hon. Wm Boyle on ‘Mendip, Viscount Dungarvan on ‘Old Joe’, oil on canvas (22″ x 32″) sold at Bonhams – 7/12/2005 for €4,250 incl.buyer’s premium.
Rochfort, Thomas
“Saving the Turf” oil on canvas (9.5″ x 18″).
Rock, Sinead
Dublin based artist and illustrator.
Rocks, Kate (1953)
Kate Rocks is originally from Belfast but grew-up and was educated in England only moving back to Northern Ireland in the 1980s. She works in oils, mainly landscapes of the Northern Irish Coast. Also still life and figures.
Commissions welcome contact: Kate Rocks Art
Rodgers, Sir John
“Carrickfergus Harbour” oil on board (12″ x 15″), sold at Ross’s – 8/12/2021 for £50.
Rodgers, Leslie
“Duncairn Cottier’s Cottage” watercolour (9″ x 13″).
Left to right: “Irish Thatched Cottage” watercolour drawing (8″ x 11″), sold at Ross’s – 7/11/2018 for £30.00; and “Connemara” watercolour drawing (13″ x 17″), sold at Ross’s – 11/9/2019 for £10.00.
Rodgers, Patsy Dan (1944 – 2018)
Tory Island painter.
“Harvest Time on Tory” oil on board (10″ x 20″).
“Northern Headlands, Tory” oil on canvas (16″ x 20″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 25/9/2017 for €260.00.
Left to right: “Tory Island Lighthouse” oil on board (8″ x 10″), unsold at Ross’s – 8/8/2018; and “Tory Island” oil on canvas (10″ x 8″), sold at Ross’s – 7/8/2019 for £600.00.
Rodgers, Ruairi L (1956)
“Tory Island” oil on board (18″ x 24″), unsold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 14/8/2018.
” West Village, Tory Island, Co.Donegal ” oil on board (12″ x 29″), sold at Whyte’s – 25/7/2022 for €400.00.
Roe, Maureen
Maureen Roe was born in Cork and studied fine art at the Crawford College of Art and Design. She continued her studies in Art and Design at the Croydon Art College UK. Maureen runs her own graphic design studio (Graphicsource Ltd) in Cork and also teaches Art and Design at the Cork CIT.
Roe, William (d.1847)
Rogers, Edward James (1872 – 1938)
Son of a Dublin-born architect, E. J. Rogers exhibited regularly at the RHA from an address in Rathgar.
Portrait of a lady, oil on canvas (27″ x 22″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 23/5/2022 for €500.
Rogers, Elizabeth
“Aasleagh Falls, Co.Mayo” dated 1995, oil.
Rogers, James Edward ARHA (1838 – 1896)
Rogers, Michelle
Rogers, William P (fl.1846 – 1872)
William Rogers was best known for his landscape and coastal subjects. He studied art at the RDS Drawing School, winning prizes there in 1850 and 1852. He exhibited thirty-eight paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy between 1848-1872, mostly scenes of Wicklow and Wexford.
“A Fisherman holding a Pollack” watercolour (7″ x 10″), sold at Whyte’s – 9/10/2001 for €2,285 including buyer’s premium.
“Fishing boats in stormy sea” oil on canvas (23.5″ x 35.5″), sold by HanseArt, Lübeck, Germany – 9/5/2020 for €850.00.
Rohu, Owen (1966)
Still Life – oil on canvas (15.5″ x 19.5″).
Rooney, Aoife
Self-taught aspiring Artist from Drogheda, County Louth.
Traditional sketching and painting, portraiture and digital works.
More here: Aoife-Rooney-Art
Rooney, Fionnula
“Slieve Binnian” acrylic on canvas (20″ x 28″), unsold Ross’s – 10/8/2016.
Rooney, J.P (1950) aka Martin Hasson
Left to right: “Moonlit Lighthouse“; and “Back Home to the Farm” oil on board (16″ x 24″) sold at Ross’s – 7/9/2016 for £400.00.
“Watching & Waiting, Ballintoy” oil on board (16″ x 24″), unsold at Ross’s – 3/5/2017.
“The Seaweed Cart” oil on board (23″ x 23″), unsold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 25/9/2017.
“Working in the Field” oil on board (15″ x 23″), unsold at Ross’s – 4/12/2019.
“The Shore & The Pier” oil on board (15″ x 42″), sold at Ross’s – 21/4/2021 for £480.00.
Rooney, Jacqueline
Newry based artist.
Rooney, James
James Rooney is a graphic designer, illustrator & artist based in south Dublin. Self taught, James has been painting since 2000, working with oils, acrylics and mixed media.
Rooney, Stephen
Roper, David
Wicklow based artist.
“Avonbeg Hoar Frost, One” oil on canvas (15.5″ x 19.5″).
Ross, Bob
Northern Irish artist.
“Coalisland Spade Mill, Ulster Folk And Transport Museum” pen and ink drawing (8.5″ x 10.5″).
Ross, Florence Agnes (1870 – 1949)
“Annamoe, Co.Wicklow” pastel (14″ x 19″), sold at Whyte’s – 17/9/2007 for €800.00.
Left to right: “Errigal Mountain, Donegal” watercolour (10.5″ x 12.5″), sold at Adam’s – 26/2/2008 for €170.00; and “The Farmstead” watercolour (10″ x 13″), unsold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 2/7/2018.
Ross, Kathy
Ross, Howard
Northern Irish artist.
Ross, Patrick
“Turf Stacks, Connemara” oil on board (8″ x 10″), sold at Ross’s 20/4/2022 for £50.
Rosse, Alison (Lady)
The Countess of Rosse is a self-taught Irish artist, based at Birr Castle in County Offaly. Lady Rosse has lived in many different countries, travelling extensively with her husband who worked for the UN. She spent time living in Iran, painting landscapes of the desert in oils and increasing her skills by working as a draftsman on archaeological sites. She received no formal training but has worked alongside other artists, with Derek Hill her especial mentor.
William Laffan is an art historian, his recent books on Irish Country House by Patrick Prendergast; Russbourough: A Great Irish House, its Families and Collections and Abbey Leix: An Irish Home and its Demesne. Alison, Countess of Rosse, is an artist who has exhibited widely, with shows at the Irish Georgian society, Jorgensen Gallery and at Nymans, the National Trust garden in Sussex. Her work is included in many institutional and private collections. Many of the watercolours in this book were featured in her exhibition Room for Books at the National Library of Ireland in 1993.
Rothwell, Richard RHA (1800 – 1868)
Born in Athlone, Co.Westmeath. Portrait artist.
Left to right: “William Huskisson, (1770-1830), MP” oil on canvas dated 1830. Picture: Parliamentary Art Collection; and Portrait of a Young Man oil on canvas (29″ x 24″), sold at Whyte’s – 10/10/2000 for €2,666 incl.buyer’s premium.
“Portrait of James Wandesford Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde and 19th Earl of Ormonde” oil on canvas (59″ x 45″), sold at Sheppard’s Classical Convergences sale in Durrow – 7/3/2017 for €12,000.
Rouse, Paul (fl.1970s)
Artist from Sion Mills, County Tyrone.
“Gathering Seaweed, Glengarriff, West Cork” dated 1976, oil on board (20″ x 30″).
Rowbotham, Thomas Charles Leeson (1823 – 1875)
“Italian Coast with Town” watercolour (8″ x 19″) sign and dated 1870. Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection.
“Geneva Road” watercolour (8.5″ x 13″) – offered on eBay in June 2018.
“A Waterfall in County Wicklow” watercolour (6″ x 9″), sold with another by the artist at Ewbank’s, Surrey – 13/9/2018 for £200.00.
Rowe, David
“Sketches in South Dublin” published by An Taisce (2010).
Rowe, Stephanie (1976)
Stephanie Rowe is a Canadian born, naturalised Irish citizen, living and working in Dublin since 2005. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
“Daydream” oil on panel.
Rule, Gillian
Gillian Rule is an Irish Artist born in Derry, Northern Ireland. She has spent most of her life on the Inishowen Peninsula, in the neighbouring County of Donegal, taking the inspiration for her work from her coastal surroundings, rolling landscapes and her great love of animals. She has been featured in several magazines including The Blue Nib, Riggwelter Press, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Dodging the Rain and The Scene and Heard Journal, to name but a few.
Gillian has held exhibitions of her work in her home town and the full range of her paintings can be viewed on her Facebook page – below. She welcomes commissions, posts worldwide and would be glad to hear from you if you have any questions. Limited edition, signed giclée prints can be ordered for lots of her work.
More here: Gillian-Rule-Art
“Cat on the Moon“.
Left to right: “Breeze” acrylic on canvas (16″ x 20″) and “Hugo“.
Untitled coastal view – a commission.
Russell, Charles RHA (1852 – 1910)
“The O’Connell Centenary Celebrations” (1875) oil on canvas. Shows the old Carlisle bridge (now O’Connell) over the Liffey before its widening in 1880. Painting © National Gallery of Ireland.
Russell, George William AE (1867 – 1935)
“The Wall Builder’s Rest” oil on canvas (16″ x 21″) sold at Christies, London – 19/5/2000 for £35,250.00.
“The Bather” oil on canvas (16″ x 21″) sold at Whyte’s – 13/3/2001 for €20,315.
Russell, Nicola (1964 – 2015)
Portadown born artist who studied in Belfast and at the Winchester School of Art.
Her early work was of floral subjects, but later she became best known for her equine paintings. The most well known of these is “Istabraq – Ireland’s Favourite” a massive canvas which was painted after an all-Ireland vote back in 2009 selected Istabraq as the country’s favourite racehorse of the past 25 years. Her paintings are included in the State Collection, as well as in those of the Queen, and former US president Bill Clinton.
“Istabraq – Ireland’s Favourite” (10ft x 13ft).
Russell, Quinn (1968)
Russell, Robert (1960)
Russell, Una Stella (1871 – 1955)
“Merrion Square, Dublin” oil on canvas (14.5″ x 29.5″), sold at Sheppard’s – 29/8/2017 for €400.00.
Russell-Klein, Noli
Ryan, Alan (1966)
Ryan, Fergus
Ryan, Hugh Fitzgerald
www.chaosireland.com/hfryan/gallery
Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan comes from Skerries, in North County Dublin where he now lives. A writer, teacher, painter and swimmer, he has published five critically acclaimed novels: The Kybe (1983), Reprisal (1989), On Borrowed Ground (1993), Ancestral Voices (1995) and In The Shadow of The Ombú Tree (2005).
Ryan, Jane
Ryan, John (1925 – 1992)
Artist, writer, critic, publisher, patron, broadcaster and publican. John Ryan attended Clongowes Wood College and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin.
“Asgard II” (1983), oil on board (10″ x 14″) sold at Adams – 26/3/2013 for €450.00.
Ryan, Jurga (1971)
“You crossed the road yesterday, didn’t you?! Why?!” – watercolour.
“Donkey” – watercolour.
Jurga is happy to undertake commissions and to see more of her art click here: Jurga-Ryan-ArtsFarts
Ryan, Leslie
Ryan, Lynda
Limerick artist.
Ryan, Paul
Dublin born landscape artist.
Ryan, Rachel
Ryan, Robert (1963)
Robert Ryan was born in Limerick and graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1987.
“Pilgrimage to the Sun” oil on canvas laid on board (22.5″ x 25.5″).
“A Place of Refuge” oil on canvas board (22.5″ x 25.5″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 21/5/2018 for €1,500.
Ryan, Shelia
I am an Irish American, of an Irish born mother originally from Dublin. I moved to Dublin in my late teens and have been living here for the past 31 years.
I have been making art with different mediums since my early teens. When my children were old enough, I finally got to go to DIT Art College when I turned 40 and then got a B.A. degree in Fine Art. Many of my paintings are of Megalithic tombs/monuments or Irish landscapes. As a hobby, I have also made Applique art, which is using fabrics of different shapes and sewing them together on a larger piece.
Left to right: “Knockeravoola Dolmen” acrylic on canvas board and “Fanad Lighthouse” oil on canvas.
Left to right, two examples of Applique work: “Drombeg Stone Circle” and “Glenfinnan Viaduct, Scotland“.
Ryan, Thomas PPRHA (1929)
Thomas Ryan attended the Limerick School of Art, then the National College of Art in Dublin, where he studied under Seán Keating and Maurice Mc Gonigle.
Left to right: “The Grand Canal” (1957) oil on canvas board. Sold at Whyte’s – 25/7/2016 for €1,050.00; “The Four Courts and St Aodeons Church, Dublin” oil on board (20″ x 20″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s (RDS) – 10/4/2017 for €1,100.
“Spring Cleaning” oil on canvas (17″ x 15″), sold at Adam’s – 31/5/2017 for €3,200.
Rycraft, Charles
Best known for his Irish stamp designs.
Cork & Muskerry Railway and West Clare Railway postcards published by An Post in 1995 as part of a series “Transport in Ireland – Narrow Gauge Railways“.
Rynne, Turlough (1976)
Art for Art's Sake! 