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81 Daniel O’Neill (1920-1974) COASTAL SCENE, CO DOWN (1973)signed lower right
oil on board
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Whytes, Dublin, 9th October 2001, Lot 38;
Private Collection
€4,000-6,000 (£3,478-5,217)
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Belfast College of Art life classes, before working with and studying under fellow Belfast artist Sidney Smith. He quickly
developed an expressionist technique, and strong romanticism, with imagery, often full of pathos, evoking the themes of
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23 at an exhibition at the Waddington Galleries in Dublin and from then on exhibited regularly. In 1949 he visited Paris
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Tooth Galleries, London and he also exhibited there with Colin Middleton in 1954.
In the 1950s, O’Neill moved from Belfast to Conlig, County Down, where there was a small artist’s colony that also
included George Campbell and Gerard Dillon. Along with Colin Middleton, Gerard Dillon and George Campbell he was
one of a group of artists who respected each other’s work and kept in touch over the course of their careers. He lived
in London from 1958 to 1971. During his lifetime, O’Neill’s works were primarily exhibited at the Royal Hibernian
Academy. More recently, some of his paintings were shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of a 2005
exhibition of Northern Irish artists. His work is represented in many collections including the Ulster Museum, Queen’s
University Belfast and the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin.