Garret Morphey

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Portrait of a lady, known as Lady Fortescue of Credan, County Waterford. Oil on canvas in a painted cartouche, in a carved frame 24¾ x 29 in 62.5 x 74 cm
Portrait of a lady, known as Lady Fortescue of Credan, County Waterford. Oil on canvas in a painted cartouche, in a carved frame 24¾ x 29 in 62.5 x 74 cm

Garret Morphey (Garret Murphy) (c. 1650 – 1716) was an Irish painter.

[edit] Career

One of the earliest, if not the earliest, Irish painters, Morphey practised in Dublin. He was most likely a pupil of Gaspar Smitz, a Dutch painter who worked in Ireland.[1] He painted portraits, genre scenes and landscapes based on the Dutch style of Constantine and Gaspar Netscher and Adriaen van der Werff. He painted for established Catholic families and newer Protestant families.[2]

Portrait of James Bryan of Jenkinstown Park, County Kilkenny, Oil on Panel, 26 x 21.1 in. / 66 x 53.5 cm.
Portrait of James Bryan of Jenkinstown Park, County Kilkenny, Oil on Panel, 26 x 21.1 in. / 66 x 53.5 cm.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Aspects of Irish Art. National Gallery of Ireland. Cahill & Co. 1974. Pg 110. Retrieved Mar. 18, 2008.
  2. ^ [1] Morphey at Princess Grace Irish Library. Retrieved Sep. 30, 2007.
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