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Augustus Nicholas Burke

1838-1891 Ireland/Romanticism

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Brief Biography-Augustus Nicholas Burke was from Co Galway, Ireland, and was a descendant of William the Conqueror. His brother Thomas Henry Burke was Permanent Undersecretary, the top Irish civil servant post.
Augustus began sketching in his locality at an early age and later did his studies at the Royal Academy in London. He became a professor of painting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. In 1870, Burke went to Holland to paint and travelled to Brittany in France for two years. Both countries influenced his work, which he later exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy. Walter Osborne, who became one of Ireland's most prominent artists, was a student of Burke.
When his Brother Thomas Henry was murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin, along with Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, by the Irish National Invincibles group, it upset him so much that he emigrated to Italy.

 

 

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Connemara Girl

The Connemara Girl

On the Apple Tree

On the Apple Tree

Laundress

The Little Laundress

Crossing-

Crossing the Bridge

Cattle Watering

Cattle Watering

Cattle, Howth Hill

 A Group of Cattle Howth Hill

Rider

Mounted Rider Leading a Herd of Horses Over a Stream

The Letter

The Letter

Ilfracombe

Twilight Ilfracombe

Walberswick

Twilight Walberswick Suffolk

The Chapel

Outside the Chapel Brittany

Greenore Point

Greenore Point Wexford Coast

Brough Marshes

On the Brough Marshes

In the Glow-

In the Glow of the Evening Sky Slender Poplars Soaring High

Seaweed

Seaweed Gatherers Wexford Coast

Walter F Osborne

Walter Frederick Osborne

Cattle Resting

Cattle Resting

Misty Morning

A Misty Morning Holland

Watering Cattle

Watering Cattle

Galway Hookers

Galway Hookers

Breaking Waves

Breaking Waves

Evening Twilight

When Evening Twilight Gathers Round

Sunset

Sunset

Study of Sheep

Study of Sheep

Ilfracombe

Original Sketch Ilfracombe