Daniel O'Neill
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Daniel O'Neill (1920-March 9, 1974) was a Romantic painter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The son of an electrician, he took painting classes at the Belfast College of Art and worked with painter Sidney Smith.
O'Neill's first exhibition was in Belfast in 1941. He was successful enough to take up painting full-time, and studied in Paris with Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Maurice Utrillo. In the 1950s, O'Neill moved from Belfast to Conlig, County Down, and established a small artist's colony that also included George Campbell and Gerard Dillon. He lived in London from 1958-71, and then returned to Belfast where he died in 1974.
During his lifetime, O'Neill's works were primarily exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy. More recently, some of his paintings were shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of a 2005 exhibition of Northern Irish artists.
