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Nathaniel Hone, R.H.A.
Nathaniel Hone, R.H.A.

Nathaniel Hone, R.H.A.

Artist (1878 - 1931)
Datec. 1905
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions74 x 62 cm
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Lane Gift, 1912.
Object number47
DescriptionThis portrait of the innovative landscape painter Nathaniel Hone was commissioned by Hugh Lane as part of the series of distinguished Irishmen and Women which included poets, artists, writers, politicians, patriots and dramatists of the day and shown on the staircase of Clonmell House, Harcourt Street, the original home of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art which first opened in 1908. Hugh Lane originally asked a somewhat reluctant John Butler Yeats to undertake the portrait series but the commission was then continued by William Orpen. This portrait of Hone was not one that Hone's wife particularly liked. The artist had a cold at the time and sittings were difficult to arrange.
On View
Not on view
William Butler Yeats
John Butler Yeats
c. 1886
Mother and Child
Sarah Henrietta Purser
c. 1894
William Cosgrave
Sir John Lavery
1923
Portrait of Hugh Lane
Antonio Mancini
1907
The Deposition
Evie Sydney Hone
c. 1953
The Coast of County Clare
Nathaniel Hone
c.1890
The Donegal Coast
Nathaniel Hone
1880s
The Ninth Hour
Mainie Jellett
1941
Abstract
Evie Sydney Hone
1925-1930
Composition
Evie Sydney Hone
Composition
Mainie Jellett
1930