c.1785 - 1845
Cork born painter Frederick Calvert was mainly known as a landscape painter. He exhibited in London and at the British Institution and the Royal Society of British Artists from 1827-1844, having published a book entitled 'Less on Landscape Colouring, Shadowing and Pencilling' in the UK in the 1810s....
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1909 - 1994
Landscape painter, designer, illustrator and photographer, Arthur Campbell spent his first nine years in Dublin and Arklow, Co.Wicklow. Brother to George and son to Gretta Bowen, Arthur went to night classes at Belfast College of Art. In 1925-45 he was a printing and advertisement designer with W. &...
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1908 - 1972
Born in Dublin Campbell studied art at the Metropolitan School of Art under Patrick Tuohy along with his brother Laurence who became a sculptor. He exhibited over 70 works at the RHA and, as well as painting, also did stained glass and worked for a while at the Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studi...
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1942 -
From a young age growing up in Dublin, Paddy Campbell had a profound interest in painting and drawing. However, as a young man in the context of 1960s Ireland, he was of the belief that it would be too difficult to make a living as an artist, despite taking courses in NCAD throughout the sixties...
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1917 - 1979
Born in Arklow, Co. Wicklow, George Campbell went to school in Dublin and moved to Belfast with his family. A self taught artist, he began painting in 1941 during the air raids. By 1944 he had developed his own style and held two shows – one with his brother Arthur at the Mol Gallery in Belfast, a...
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