Frank O'Meara

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Autumnal greys (Forest of Fontainbleau), by Frank O'Meara, 1880, Oil on Canvas, 28 x 12.6 in. / 71 x 31.9 cm.

On the quays, charcoal on canvas, 1888

Francis Joseph O'Meara (March 30, 1853 – 1888) was an Irish artist.

Biography

The son of a doctor, O'Meara was born in Carlow, Ireland. Around 1872, the young artist travelled to Paris where he would study under the French painter Carolus Duran. In 1875 he visited the artists colonies in Barbizon and Grez-sur-Loing. Among his peers were John Lavery and Carl Larsson. He settled there and eventually befriended Robert Louis Stevenson.

O'Meara returned to Carlow in the spring of 1888 and died that October, aged thirty-five. (either to malaria fever or tuberculosis)

Though his collection is small, it is quite acclaimed, and easily recognized by its "melancholy, autumnal mood, its 'poetic' feeling and its use of subdued but harmonious tones". Five of his works hang at the Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, in Dublin. Another can be viewed at the Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Facts

One of Frank's ancestors, Barry O'Meara, was Napoleon's physician at St. Helena.

References

mpfa.ie, retrieved 25 September 2006.

External links

Frank O'Meara Paintings & Bio

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