Edward Daniel Leahy

Edward Daniel Leahy

Edward Daniel Leahy by J. P. Davis, 1830.
Born 1797
London
Died 9 February 1875
Brighton
Nationality Irish
Other names E. D. Leahy
Occupation Painter

Edward Daniel Leahy (1797 – 9 February 1875) was an Irish portrait and subject painter.

Biography

Leahy was born in London in 1797 to David Leahy of Dublin.[1] In 1820 he sent to the Royal Academy a portrait of Mrs. Yates in the character of Meg Merrilies, and became a frequent exhibitor, both there and at the British Institution, of portraits and historical subjects. Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex and the Marquess of Bristol sat to him, and his sitters included, among other prominent Irishmen, the Earl of Rosse, R. L. Sheil, M.P., Sir M. Tierney, M.D., William Cuming, president of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and Father Mathew, the "Apostle of Temperance." His subject-pictures included "Battle of the Nile" and "Trafalgar." 1825; "Mary Stuart's Farewell to France," 1826 (engraved); "Jacques and the Wounded Stag," 1880; "Escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle," 1887 (painted for Lord Egremont), 'Lady Jane Grey summoned to Execution,' 1844. Between 1837 and 1843 Leahy resided in Italy, and in Rome painted a portrait of John Gibson, R A. Alter his return he exhibited a few Italian subjects, and appeared at the Academy for the last time in 1863. He died at Brighton on 9 February 1875. Leahy's portrait of Father Mathew, painted at Cork in 1846, is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ "LEAHY, EDWARD DANIEL". libraryireland.com. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: O'Donoghue, Freeman Marius (1892). "Leahy, Edward Daniel". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

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