Patrick Hennessy
One of Ireland's finest realist painters, Patrick Hennessy was born in Cork but was sent as a child to Scotland to be raised there by relatives. He won a scholarship to the Dundee College of Art, meeting there his life-long friend and companion Henry Robertson Craig. A further scholarship enabled him to study in Paris and Rome. He returned to Ireland at the outbreak of the Second World War, moving alternately between Dublin and Cork. In 1941 he first exhibited at the RHA, having already exhibited a still-life and a self-portrait at the Royal Scottish Academy two years earlier. Over the next thirty years he showed almost one hundred works at the RHA, ranging between interiors and still-lives, portraits, and landscapes. In all of his compositions he employed a distinctive realist style. In his later years he travelled frequently in Europe and North Africa, often spending his winters in Morocco. A self-portrait hangs in the NGI, whilst the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery in Cork has five works by him and another four paintings of his can be seen at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. www.whytes.ie
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'PORTRAIT OF LIV HEMPEL (DAUGHTER OF THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR) 1939'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- pastel
- 47 by 33cm., 18.5 by 13in.
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'KINSALE'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 17 September 2002
- watercolour
- 39 by 23cm., 15.5 by 9in.
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'MOROCCAN ROSES, 1968'
- Price Realised: 4,600
- Sale: 24 February 2014
- oil on canvas
- 12 by 16in., 30 by 40cm.
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'MADAME LAPERIERE & JOSEPHINE BRUCE'
- Price Realised: 4,570
- Sale: 13 March 2001
- oil on canvas
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'EBB TIDE'
- Price Realised: 4,500
- Sale: 12 March 2012
- oil on canvas; bearing framing label of The House of Heydenryk, New York on reverse
- 40.64 by 60.96cm., 16 by 24in.
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'THE FLEDGLING'
- Price Realised: 4,400
- Sale: 12 March 2012
- oil on canvas
- 35.56 by 27.94cm., 14 by 11in.
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'CONNEMARA LANDSCAPE'
- Price Realised: 4,200
- Sale: 26 September 2016
- oil on canvas
- 24½ x 29½in. (62.23 x 74.93cm)
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'KASSIM BY THE SEA, 1978'
- Price Realised: 4,200
- Sale: 23 February 2015
- oil on canvas
- 24½ x 34½in. (62.23 x 87.63cm)
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'THE CHAMPAGNE BUCKET AND BIRD'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 06 June 2022
- oil on canvas
- 15 x 24½in. (38.10 x 62.23cm)
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'ATLAS BEACH'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 23 February 2015
- oil on canvas
- 25 x 35in. (63½ x 88.90cm)
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'M'HAMED BY THE SEA, 1979'
- Price Realised: 3,800
- Sale: 26 September 2016
- oil on canvas
- 15 x 24½in. (38.10 x 62.23cm)
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'VIEW OF GREEK RUINS'
- Price Realised: 3,800
- Sale: 29 November 2010
- 23 by 33cm., 9 by 13in.
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'THE WINDOW, c.1940s'
- Price Realised: 3,500
- Sale: 30 May 2016
- oil on canvas
- 19½ x 11½in. (49.53 x 29.21cm)
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'BOUQUET OF ROSES, c.1964'
- Price Realised: 3,400
- Sale: 29 May 2023
- oil on canvas
- 13 x 16in. (33.02 x 40.64cm)
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'ABANDONED HOUSES SEEN THROUGH AN ARCHWAY'
- Price Realised: 3,400
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 43 by 29cm., 17 by 11.5in.
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'THE CONCH SHELL'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 12 June 2005
- oil on board
- 36 by 22cm., 14 by 8.5in.
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'CONNEMARA LANDSCAPE'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 02 December 2019
- oil on canvas
- 25 x 30in. (63½ x 76.20cm)
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'PORTRAIT OF BERTHOLD HEMPEL (SON OF THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR) 1939'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 30 May 2011
- pastel
- 46 by 30cm., 18 by 12in.
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'SELF PORTRAIT, circa 1938'
- Price Realised: 3,000
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on gesso on board
- 46 by 37cm., 18.2 by 14.5in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH ROSE'
- Price Realised: 2,400
- Sale: 29 November 2021
- oil on board
- 8 x 10in. (20.32 x 25.40cm)
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'THE SUMMER ROSES, c. 1963'
- Price Realised: 2,400
- Sale: 25 May 2020
- oil on board
- 7Ύ x 9½in. (19.69 x 24.13cm)
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'PIETA'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 24 November 2014
- oil on canvas
- 48 x 72in. (121.92 x 182.88cm)
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'PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, 1936'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- oil on canvas
- 53 by 36cm., 21 by 14in.
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'RUINED HOUSE WITHIN A RURAL LANDSCAPE'
- Price Realised: 2,000
- Sale: 31 May 2021
- oil on canvas
- 11½ x 15½in. (29.21 x 39.37cm)
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'WINDY BROW, LISBURN'
- Price Realised: 1,900
- Sale: 12 March 2012
- oil on canvas
- 101.6 by 127cm., 40 by 50in.
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'STILL LIFE WITH BOTTLES'
- Price Realised: 1,700
- Sale: 28 November 2016
- oil on canvas
- 16 x 20in. (40.64 x 50.80cm)
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'VIEW OF A COUNTRY HOUSE WITH TERRACE GARDEN AND STEPS'
- Price Realised: 1,600
- Sale: 30 November 2004
- watercolour over pencil
- 43 by 23cm., 17 by 9in.
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'PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN'
- Price Realised: 1,400
- Sale: 04 December 2023
- oil on board
- 14 x 10in. (35.56 x 25.40cm)