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25
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2016
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6.00
pm
115
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Thomas Ryan PPRHA (b.1929) Portraits of the 1916 Rising Leaderseach signed & titled lower right
set of 7 conté on paper
40 x 30.5cm (16 x 12in) each (framed individually)
Provenance:
Private Collection
€4,000-6,000 (£3,125-4,687)
Born in 1929 Thomas Ryan attended the Limerick School of Art, then the National College of Art in Dub-
lin, where he studied under Seán Keating and Maurice MacGonigal. In 1957 he first exhibited at the RHA
and became an associate member in 1968. He has had many commissions for portraits and he is also well
known for his sensitive still-life paintings and for his Irish historical scenes, especially those of the 1916
Rising. This set of seven portraits of the Leaders of the 1916 Rising, James Connolly, Padraig Pearce, Sean
MacDiarmada, Eamon Ceannt, Thomas Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett shows Ryan’s
dispassionate eye and steady hand.
J
ames
C
onnolly
P
adraig
P
earce
J
oseph
P
lunkett
T
homas
M
ac
D
onagh
T
homas
C
larke
S
ean
M
ac
D
iarmada
E
amon
C
eannt