Walter Osborne

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On Suffolk Sands, 1887 - Oil on canvas 10 x 12" - The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Shades of Light, June 2005 - Ref. Sketch in ink dated 1886, National Gallery of Ireland, cat.19,206

Walter Frederick Osborne (1859 - 1903) was an Irish impressionist. Most of his paintings featured women, children, and the elderly as well as rural scenes.

[edit] Career

Walter F. Osborne remains one of the most respected Irish impressionists. He won the Taylor Prize in 1881 and 1882, the highest student honour in Ireland of the time, while residing in Antwerp. In 1883, Osborne moved from Antwerp to Brittany where he painted his famous Apple Gathering, Quimperlé, now in the National Gallery of Ireland. Soon after, he moved to England where he worked alongside Nathaniel Hill and Augustus Burke at Walberswick.

[edit] External links

• The Works of Walter Osborne
• Walter Osborne at Irish Art

[edit] References

• http://www.mpfa.ie/Osborne.htm Retrieved September 24 2006.
• "The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850-1914". Julian Campbell. National Gallery of Ireland. 1984.

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