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Robert Wallace Richey
The picture is signed "RWR" (left corner).
The picture is signed "RWR" (right corner).
The picture is signed "RWR" (right corner).
John Humphreys mentions that this bridge was called "Wellington Bridge in his [the artist's] day, though it was renamed and is now Thomas Davis Bridge (built in 1826 or 1830 according to different sources). It is to the west of Cork city, and runs from the Mardyke (a long extension west of the island on which the city was built) across the north channel of the River Lee, to the start of Sunday's Well Road. In other words those houses are near the start of the road where he [the artist] lived."
Gill Fennell says that this scenery "has a remarkable ring of Bantry Bay with the range of hills going down the Beara."
This picture is possibly not by Robert Richey but "by the late Mr. Morgan, brother of Mrs.Richey" (see next pictures).
Quite probably this picture is not by Robert Richey but "by the late Mr. Morgan, brother of Mrs.Richey" who also did the incomplete sketch of a ship on the back side of this picture (see next) which shows remarkable similarities to this one.
View of Cork with St. Finbar's Cathedral. "This view might have been done from the Richeys' family home - Sundays Well Road rises well above the river as you walk east along it, before plunging steeply down to the city." (John Humphreys). Even though this picture differs from the pictures confirmed to be by Robert Richey slightly in style, it may well be by him.
This picture is claimed to be "by the late Mr. Morgan, brother of Mrs. Richey" (on the back of "Napoleonic Ships").
This picture
may well be an early work by Robert Richey.
Which bay might it show? John Humphreys comments on it:
"I thought it might possibly show Kinsale, but I don't think the sea view is right. Ireland is full of attractive inlets like this,
which doesn't make it any easier.Youghal was another known resort used by the family for recreational boating -Cork itself was a wo rking harbour, which did not make it a good place to go out with parasols and picnics."
Also this picture, of a very different genre, was probably painted by a member of the Richey family, possibly by Robert Richey himself.
Among his nieces and nephews, Robert Wallace Richey who died rather young was until long after his death known as the artist of his family. Several of his paintings have been preserved though it is not in all cases clear whether the picture is by him or by another member of his family. Three pictures are signed "RWR", six other pictures look rather similar in style, thus likely to be his. The picture showing Cork from (about) the Richey family's home may well be by him, as well, and the colourful picture showing an Irish bay with an early steam ship might, in its slightly naive style, be an early work by "RWR". The historical painting, being of a very different genre, makes style comparisons rather difficult, so it's not easy to tell whether it was possibly created by Robert Richey. The two maritime scenes with big ships (one showing a Napoleonic ship), though, look rather far away in style from the confirmed "RWR" pictures. One of them shows, on its back side, an incomplete sketch of a ship, with great similarities to the one shown on its front side, and the writing: "by the late Mr.Morgan, brother of Mrs.Richey" (probably a great-uncle of Robert Richey). So possibly these maritime scenes are by Mr. Morgan.
A click on a little picture makes it appear in the big window underneath (see also the 5 other little pictures, below the large one).
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