Lot 131: William Eric Horsbrugh-Porter (1905-1985) WILD

William Eric Horsbrugh-Porter (1905-1985) WILD ROSES signed with initials lower right; original exhibition label on reverse giving title, price (£200), and artist's name and address oil on panel 51 by 69cm., 20 by 27in. Exhibited: RHA, Dublin, 1972, catalogue no. 130 Horsbrugh-Porter, a native of Dalkey Co. Dublin, attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art before continuing his education at the renowned Slade School, London, where he held both the Slade Scholarship and the Robert Ross Scholarship. In 1928 he collaborated with his friend, the London born artist Stephen Bone (see lot 52), painting murals for Piccadilly Underground; the pair also shared a flat in Knightsbridge. From 1926 to 1974 he showed more than forty works at the Royal Hibernian Academy, including Wild Roses in 1972, his second penultimate exhibition in the RHA prior to his death in 1985.