Arthur David McCormick
Born in Coleraine, Co. Derry, educated there and at College of Design, Belfast. He exhibited at the RA from 1889, having moved to London in 1883. His costume pieces were very popular and were exhibited widely in England. He was a noted painter of portraits, naval and genre scenes as well as an illustrator. He was responsible for the painting, in 1927, of the sailor's head on the cigarette packets of John Player and Son.
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'DRAKE AND FROBISHER DISCUSSING PLANS TO FOIL THE SPANISH ARMADA [1587] 1941'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 27 November 2017
- oil on canvas
- 20 x 28in. (50.80 x 71.12cm)
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'SHOWING HIS TREASURES'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 29 May 2017
- watercolour
- 21 x 29Ύin. (53.34 x 75.57cm)
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'THE PIRATE'S TRIBUNE, 1900'
- Price Realised: 1,400
- Sale: 04 March 2013
- oil on canvas
- 18 by 24in., 45 by 60cm.