John E. Redmond, MP
Artist
Sir John Lavery
(1856 - 1941)
Date1916
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions76.2 x 63.6 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Donated by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Hutcheson-Poë in remembrance of Sir Hugh Lane, 1917.
Object number251
DescriptionThis portrait of John Redmond (1856-1918) was painted by John Lavery at the height of Redmond’s success as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party with the passage of the Home Rule Bill prior to the outbreak of the First World War. This portrait and its companion piece of the Ulster Unionist leader Edward Carson... were sold by Lavery on the condition that they would stay together and be given to a Dublin Gallery. When Redmond heard of Lavery’s plan he said, ‘I have always had an idea that Carson and I might some day be hanged side-by-side in Dublin’. Redmond’s lukewarm support for the Gallery of Modern Art was demonstrated by his distinct lack of assistance during the row over the proposed gallery site in 1913 when he believed there was no public demand for a gallery and his ‘not knowing or caring anything for paintings.’ (JO'D)On View
Not on view
