Lot 169: Attributed to Nicholas Crowley (1819-1857) PORTRAIT OF JOAN, WIFE OF JAMES POWER, OLDCOURT, WATERFORD [1850]

inscribed and dated verso; second portrait with sitter's name and date on reverse

h:36 w:28in.

oil on canvas; (2)

Collection of the sitter;
Thence by family descent to the previous owner;
From whom acquired by the present owner

The second portrait which accompanies this lot pertains to the same family collection and depicts Master Jemmy Power as 'The Red Boy' [1869]. For an image of this second portrait see www.whytes.ie
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Nicholas Joseph Crowley was an Irish genre and portrait painter. Born in Dublin in 1819, he became a student at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1832. He first exhibited there the following year and his works continued to appear almost every year until his death. Crowley was elected a member in 1837. That same year Crowley moved to London where he became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy.
Most of Crowley's known works are listed in Strickland (pp.236-239) among them two portraits of Waterford actor William Grattan Tyrone Power (1795-1841) from Kilmacthomas executed in 1840 and 1845.