Captain Shawe-Taylor

Artist Sir William Orpen (1878 - 1931)

Date1906

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions73.6 x 62.8 cm

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Lane Gift, 1912.

Object number49

DescriptionIt was Shawe Taylor who took down the photograph of a Meszoly painting in the National Museum of Ireland which had been placed there by the Director in 1905 in order to damage Hugh Lane's reputation as a connoisseur in Dublin. In 1902 Shawe Taylor succeeded in bringing landlords and tenants together to discuss agrarian problems. Following this meeting the Land Act of 1903 was introduced.

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