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Henry Nelson O'Neill (Irish, 1817-1880) Oil on Board

Henry Nelson O'Neill (Irish, 1817-1880) Oil on Board Undated, signed lower left, depicting a maiden, in a gold-tone gesso on wood frame having an oval port Property from: a Private Collector, Buffalo Grove, Illinois Category: Fine Art > European Paintings Estimated Sale Time: 12:32 pm CST Shipping Status: Leonard Auction, Inc. will provide direct shipping for this lot. Please visit our website for a shipping estimate. Download High Resolution Photographs: Photograph #1 Photograph #2 Photograph #3 Photograph #4 Last modified: June 7, 2023, 12:16 pm

Henry O'Neill (1798 - 1880)  'View of St. Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare, prior to its restoration c.

Henry O'Neill (1798 - 1880)  'View of St. Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare, prior to its restoration c. 1835,'  watercolour on paper, Signed (bottom lower left), in contemporary gilt frame, 26cms x 36cms (10 1/2" x 14"). Depicting the Cathedral of St. Brigid in Kildare, this watercolour by Henry O’Neill, painted around 1835, is a valuable record of the building prior to its restoration four decades later. Not far from the cathedral stands the round tower, and beside the tower a broken high cross—all elements of this medieval Christian site that survive today. By the time O’Neill depicted the cathedral, the building was roofless and essentially a ruin. In 1875, under the supervision of architect George Edmund Street, restoration work began. The work included a new roof, north transept, chancel and west wall. The square tower at the crossing of nave and aisles was also rebuilt. O’Neill’s watercolour shows the cathedral as it appeared prior to 1875, with its roofless nave and south transept. The viewpoint is from the south, and shows the south wall of the nave with six lancet windows. During Street’s restoration, these windows were recessed within new Gothic arches, built to link and reinforce the wall buttresses visible in the watercolour. There is no sign of the west gable in his view, although it does appear in a late eighteenth-century watercolour in the Beranger Collection in UCD, where it can be seen to be in an advanced state of collapse. In George Petrie’s view of Kildare Cathedral, published in 1820 in Thomas Cromwell’s Excursions in Ireland, the gable wall has completely collapsed. Like Petrie, O’Neill produced illustrations for William Frederick Wakeman’s 1835 guidebook Picturesque sketches of . . scenery of Ireland, and also for his Fourteen Views of the County of Wicklow, published that same year. As well as being an artist, O’Neill was a teacher; his manual for art students was published by George Rowney in 1846. He was also an antiquarian, and in 1857 published his most important work, illustrating the ancient high crosses of Ireland. A controversialist, his 1863 his Fine Arts of Ancient Ireland, illustrated by G. Hanlon, set out to refute conclusions reached by Petrie in the latter’s Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland. While Petrie established, after careful scientific study, that the round towers of Ireland were built during the Christian era, many antiquarians, including Henry O’Brien, Charles Vallencey and O’Neill, preferred to believe they were older buildings, built for fire worship or as Zoroastrian temples. *We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Peter Murray in cataloguing this lot.

Henry O’Neill (1798-1880) 'The Hill of Faughart, Co. Louth,'  O.O.C., c. 1871, Signed  and inscribed

Henry O’Neill (1798-1880) 'The Hill of Faughart, Co. Louth,'  O.O.C., c. 1871, Signed  and inscribed lower left, 51cms x 59cms (20" x 23").  In this dramatic landscape, O’Neill captures the prospect from a location close to Moyry Pass—the ‘Gap of the North’—a few miles north of Dundalk. The view is taken from a craggy mountain, looking south towards the coastline and Dundalk Bay. In the middle distance can be seen the Hill of Faughart, famed for its ancient shrine devoted to St. Brigid. For centuries, Moyry Pass has been an important strategic location on the road between Dundalk and County Armagh. In 1600 Lord Mountjoy launched an attack here, on the forces of Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, while ninety years later, William of Orange marched his army south through the Pass. An earlier Earl of Tyrone had been involved in the 1316 Battle of Faughart. Although the birthplace of Henry O’Neill is given by Strickland as Clonmel, other accounts propose that he may have been born in Dundalk: this painting may provide evidence towards the latter theory. Perhaps inspired by the bravery shown by his namesake who defended Moyry Pass against the English in 1600, Henry O’Neill has used both colour and aerial perspective to add drama and a sense of depth to this view, with rocks and cliff in the foreground depicted in browns and russets, while the Hill of Faughart is picked out in light green colours, and a thin silver line in the distance indicates the sea. Dark clouds hang over the scene, adding to the sense of Romanticism. This painting may be the work entitled The Battlefield of Faughart, North Side of Dundalk, or else A Mountain Cliff on the North Side of Faughart, both exhibited at the RHA in 1871, while O’Neill was living at Francis Street, Dundalk. *We would like to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Peter Murray in cataloguing this lot.

HENRY O'NEILL R.H.A. (1798 - 1880)

On the Blackwater River. Watercolour. Enclosed in a gilt frame.

Henry O'Neill (1798-1880) VIEW OF AN ISLAND AND TEMPLE FROM ACROSS WATER, WITH A GENTLEMAN FISHING IN FOREGROUND

signed lower left

HENRY NELSON O'NEILL, A.R.A. 1798-1880 Catherine of Aragon 1854 oil on board 47.5 x 40 cm

HENRY NELSON O'NEILL, A.R.A. 1798-1880 Catherine of Aragon 1854 oil on board signed and dated 'Henry O'Neil / 1854' lower right; signed and inscribed 'No 3. Catherine of A[ragon] /a S… / "Is this your Christian counsel? Out upon / ye! Shakespeare's Henry 8th Act 3.sc.1. / Henry O.Neil / 6 Garway Road Bayswater' on verso (on label) 47.5 x 40 cm PROVENANCE Professor Sir Albert Richardson, London The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A., Christie's, London, 18 September 2013, lot 81, illustrated Mr John Schaeffer AO, Sydney, acquired from the above

ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY O'NEILL (1798-1880) Kilkenny Castle from John's Bridge

ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY O'NEILL (1798-1880) Kilkenny Castle from John's Bridge, depicting figures on the river side walk, O.O.B., inscribed Kilkenny Castle lower left, 18'' (45cm)h x 26'' (66cm). (1)

Henry Nelson O'Neill (1817-1880) - Portrait of a lady

Oil on board laid on canvas Oval 23 x 20 cm (9 x 8 in)

Henry Nelson O'Neill (1817-1880), Portrait of a

Henry Nelson O'Neill (1817-1880), Portrait of a lady, Oil on board laid on canvas, Oval, 23 x 20cm (9 x 8in)

Henry O'Neill (1798 - 1880) Bendurg Oil on canvas,

Henry O'Neill (1798 - 1880) Bendurg Oil on canvas, 49 x 59cm (19.25 x 23.25") Signed and dated 1870

Henry O'Neill (1778-1880) VIEW OF AN ISLAND AND

Henry O'Neill (1778-1880) VIEW OF AN ISLAND AND TEMPLE FROM ACROSS WATER, WITH A GENTLEMAN FISHING IN FOREGROUND signed lower left watercolour 18 by 25cm., 7 by 10in.

Attributed to Henry Nelson O'Neill 1817-1880- Bridge over the River Ouse; watercolour, 18.5x26.7cm

Attributed to Henry Nelson O'Neill 1817-1880- Bridge over the River Ouse; watercolour, 18.5x26.7cm

Henry Nelson O'Neill, A.R.A. (1817-1880)

The doll oil on canvas 24 x 20 1/8 in. (61 x 51 cm.)

Henry O'Neill (British, 1798-1880) Study of a fallen tree signed and dated 4.4.71, watercolour 20 x 36 cm.