1893 - 1964
Born in Portadown, Co. Armagh, Charles Lamb initially studied life drawing at night at the Belfast School of Art before winning a scholarship to study full time at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin in 1917. In 1921 Lamb visited Carraroe in Connemara for the first time. Charles Lamb, like He...
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1856 - 1941
Originally from Belfast, John Lavery held his first art related job in a photographic studio in Glasgow where he coloured prints and touched up negatives. Having been orphaned at a young age and spending years with various relatives, this was his introduction to the art world. Lavery went on to stud...
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1919 -
Melanie Le Brocquy has exhibited work in several group exhibitions in Salzburg, 1962, Dublin at the Dawson gallery in 1973 and the Taylor Galleries in 1986 and 2000. Her work is represented in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, the National Self Portrait Collect...
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1916 - 2012
A self taught artist, Louis le Brocquy was born in Dublin and abandoned his job working in a lab in 1938 to pursue a career in painting. In 1947 le Brocquy moved to London which was to be his base for the next ten years, and showed his work in Paris, New York and Italy. He married Anne Madden in 195...
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1910 - 1983
James le Jeune was born in Canada to an Irish mother and French/English father, but lived in Brittany from the age of two. After a period of study in Paris, he went on to Heatherley’s Academy and the Byam Shaw School in London, and then to the Student’s League in New York. Returning to London he...
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