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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of the Playwright, William Congreve (1670-1729) Reclining in a Landscpe
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Garret Morphy (c.1655-1715)
The Dublin artist Garret Morphy dominated portraiture in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Walter Strickland states he was known from his portrait of Archbishop Oliver Plunkett (executed in Tyburn, London, in 1681), which was reproduced in mezzotint.
There is no documentary proof concerning Morphy's origins in Ireland, nor about his early training as a painter, although the style of some of his early pictures (e (showing 500 of 1965 characters). |
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