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Albert Power RHA (1881-1945) Mother and Child Bronze, 22.9cm (9'') high Signed Exhibited: Sligo, ''Collectors Eye'' Exhibition Cat. No. 38., The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, January - February 2004; Limerick, The Hunt Museum, March - April 2004. Literature: ''Collector's Eye'' 2004 Exhibition Catalogue, illustrated p.20 Once he had joined day classes at the Metropolitan School of Art, Albert Power came under the influence of John Hughes and Oliver Sheppard. He won a series of prizes for modeling, including three silver medals. Power first exhibited at the RHA in 1906, and from then until 1945 he showed seventy-six works, about one third portraits. Appointed a full member of the RHA in 1919, he executed the posthumous head of Thomas Kettle which was erected in St. Stephen's Green. In 1922 he was represented in the Irish exhibition at Galeries Barbazanges, Paris, with busts of Lord Dunsany, James Stephens and W.B.Yeats. The same year the new Free State Government commissioned him to execute posthumous busts in bronze of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins. He was also responsible for the monument in Glasnevin Cemetery to Most Rev. Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin and the memorial to Countess Markievicz which is located in St. Stephen's Green. This work depicts the artist's wife and eldest daughter May.
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