Lord MacDonnell, G.C.S.I.
Artist
Sir William Orpen
(1878 - 1931)
Date1904
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions74.9 x 62.2 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Lane Gift, 1912.
Object number43
DescriptionThis is a half-length portrait of a man, Lord MacDonnell, sitting against a dark background. He is wearing a first class civil servant's court uniform with a light blue sash and his order. He stares intently at the viewer, clasping the arms of a chair, his walrus type moustache and eyebrows bristling with intent.In 1901 Hugh Lane became fired with the idea of creating a modern art gallery in Dublin and he commissioned John Butler Yeats to paint a series of portraits of distinguished Irishmen and later Sir William Orpen continued the task adding portraits including this one. All of Orpen's portraits commissioned by Lane were presented to the Gallery.
Interestingly John Butler Yeats has also portrayed Lord MacDonnell (see Object Number 53).
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![Caricature (d) [The artist on brink of precipice carrying Michael Davitt, William O'Brien, and Lord MacDonnell on his back] (Enough)](/internal/media/dispatcher/16492/thumbnail)
![Caricature (a) [Erin as a nude figure kneeling before Lord MacDonnell]](/internal/media/dispatcher/1269/thumbnail)
