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    • ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES COY (IRISH, FL. 1769-1780)
      May. 01, 2024

      ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES COY (IRISH, FL. 1769-1780)

      Est: €2,000 - €3,000

      Irish School, late 18th-century. Irish country house in a river landscape; River landscape with a fishing party in a boat. Each an oil on canvas. James Coy (fl. 1769-1780) was born in Dublin and commenced his artistic career at The Dublin Society’s School. He was tutored by the landscape painters Robert Carver (fl. 1750-1791) and George Mullins (fl. 1763-1775). He painted landscape views in Co. Wicklow and around Westport, where he worked for Lord Altamont. He exhibited eleven paintings at the Society of Artists in Ireland between 1769 and 1774. Provenance: West Cork Private Collection.

      Sheppards
    • JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) River Landscape with Figures and Waterfall, Mountains in the Distance Oil on canvas, 49 x 74cm Signed and dated 1774 Provenance: Private collection, Co. Wicklow.
      Oct. 10, 2023

      JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) River Landscape with Figures and Waterfall, Mountains in the Distance Oil on canvas, 49 x 74cm Signed and dated 1774 Provenance: Private collection, Co. Wicklow.

      Est: €20,000 - €30,000

      JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) River Landscape with Figures and Waterfall, Mountains in the Distance Oil on canvas, 49 x 74cm Signed and dated 1774 Provenance: Private collection, Co. Wicklow.

      Adam's
    • JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) A View based on the Dargle River Landscape, County Wicklow Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 78cm Provenance: Private collection, acquired by the present owners circa 2000. The short-lived James Coy was taught by George Mullin
      Oct. 19, 2021

      JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) A View based on the Dargle River Landscape, County Wicklow Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 78cm Provenance: Private collection, acquired by the present owners circa 2000. The short-lived James Coy was taught by George Mullin

      Est: €15,000 - €20,000

      JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) A View based on the Dargle River Landscape, County Wicklow Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 78cm Provenance: Private collection, acquired by the present owners circa 2000. The short-lived James Coy was taught by George Mullins, closely associated with Thomas Roberts and apprenticed to Robert Carver who offered to take him to London when he moved to the metropolis in 1769. Instead, however, he stayed in Dublin and that year began to exhibit with the Society of Artists in their new exhibition room on William Street. Coy’s initial exhibits were of ‘ideal’ landscapes with generic titles which echo those favoured by his master, Carver, for example ‘a landscape ruins and figures’. His Landstorm, another 1769 exhibit, was, no doubt, inspired by works of similar subject matter by Roberts. The following year, however, his exhibition of a painting of Marino anticipated by two years, Roberts’s well-known portrayal of Lord Charlemont’s famed demesne (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester). Coy’s exhibits in 1772 clearly reflect a sketching trip to Wicklow and included view of Tinnehinch (a subject also painted by Roberts and Jonathan Fisher) but also views more associated with their older, and London-based, contemporary George Barret including a view of Powerscourt Waterfall. This work was singled out for praise in the press, an anonymous critic writing how it conveyed ‘the strongest idea of the subject’ and even suggesting that it was ‘in every respect the best of this view, so often attempted’. Also included by Coy in the 1772 exhibition were two views of the Dargle River, which rises in the Wicklow Mountains and having formed, at Powerscourt, the highest waterfall in Ireland flows through the Glencree Valley before meeting the sea at Bray. The river’s enclosed, rocky landscape, with dramatically shifting light effects, accorded perfectly with the nascent romantic sensibility that was developing among artists in Britain and Ireland and made it a site of picturesque pilgrimage. It is tempting to date the present work to this juncture in Coy’s short career. Clearly inspired by the Dargle scenery (described by one contemporary visitor as ‘most exceedingly Romantick and beautiful’) it may have been based on sketches made on the same trip, though, following the example of Carver and Roberts, he introduces vaguely classical buildings. Coy was clearly a young artist with a rising reputation but sadly he died, aged only thirty, the ‘result of a chill’ caught while sketching outdoors at Westport, County Mayo, hence the great rarity of his work today.

      Adam's
    • JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) River Landscape with Figures and Waterfall, Mountains in the Distance Oil on canvas, 49 x 74cm Signed and dated 1774 Provenance: Private collection, Co. Wicklow.
      Oct. 19, 2021

      JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) River Landscape with Figures and Waterfall, Mountains in the Distance Oil on canvas, 49 x 74cm Signed and dated 1774 Provenance: Private collection, Co. Wicklow.

      Est: €20,000 - €30,000

      JAMES COY (c.1750-c.1780) River Landscape with Figures and Waterfall, Mountains in the Distance Oil on canvas, 49 x 74cm Signed and dated 1774 Provenance: Private collection, Co. Wicklow.

      Adam's
    • ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES COY (IRISH, FL. 1769-1780) IRISH SCHOOL, LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
      Dec. 01, 2016

      ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES COY (IRISH, FL. 1769-1780) IRISH SCHOOL, LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY

      Est: €2,000 - €3,000

      ATTRIBUTED TO JAMES COY (IRISH, FL. 1769-1780) IRISH SCHOOL, LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY Irish country house in a river landscape River landscape with a fishing party in a boat Oil on canvas (2) James Coy (fl. 1769-1780) was born in Dublin and commenced his artistic career at The Dublin Society’s School. He was tutored by the landscape painters Robert Carver (fl. 1750-1791) and George Mullins (fl. 1763-1775). He painted landscape views in Co. Wicklow and around Westport, where he worked for Lord Altamont. He exhibited eleven paintings at the Society of Artists in Ireland between 1769 and 1774. These included views of the Powerscourt and Tinnahinch Estates.14 x 23 inches (35.5 x 58.5 cm.) (2)

      Sheppards
    • JAMES COY C.1750-1780 AN EXTENSIVE RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES IN THE FOREGROUND
      May. 13, 2005

      JAMES COY C.1750-1780 AN EXTENSIVE RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES IN THE FOREGROUND

      Est: £6,000 - £8,000

      oil on canvas CATALOGUE NOTE James Coy studied landscape painting under Robert Carver and George Mullins. When Carver moved to London he offered Coy the opportunity of joining him. Coy was clearly establishing an independent landscape practice in Ireland since this offer was rejected. He seems to have painted scenes predominantly of County Wicklow, and in 1770 he won a Dubln Society Premium. While painting for Lord Altamont at Westport, County Mayo he caught a chill, of which he later died. His style resembles that of Thomas Roberts.

      Sotheby's
    • James Coy (c.1750-c.1780)
      May. 17, 2002

      James Coy (c.1750-c.1780)

      Est: $5,840 - $8,760

      A wooded coastal landscape with figures and a pony resting beside a path and a ruined tower signed and dated 'J.B. Coy 1776' (lower left) oil on canvas 173/4 x 27 in. (45.1 x 68.8 cm.) PROVENANCE J. Carpenter Garnier, Rookesbury Park, Wickham, Hampshire; Christie's, 27 July 1928, lot 2 (5 gns. to Collings). LITERATURE A. Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, The Painters of Ireland, c. 1660-1920,, London, 1978, p. 111, note 7. NOTES James B. Coy was a pupil of the landscape painter Robert Carver (fl. 1750-91) and his works are rarely seen. He won a Dublin Society premium and palette and also studied under George Mullins, with whom he was living in 1769 when he sent a landscape to the Society of Artists, where he exhibited between 1769 and 1774. He died from a chill caught when working for Lord Altamont at Westport House, Co. Mayo. The hill in the background of the picture may be inspired by Creogh Patrick, near Westport, in Co. Mayo.

      Christie's
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