€600 - €1,200
Super Star Lot: 'Joseph William Carey RUA (1859-1937)' A serene original 'Joseph William Carey RUA (1859-1937)' watercolour on paper painting titled 'Slieve Bearnagh'. Features the titular mountain in Northern Ireland. Portrays a romantic realism approach with loose and expressive brushstrokes. Rendered in earthy and muted tones with dramatic contrasts. Signed and dated '1928' lower left. Titled to lower right. Slight foxing to paper portraying age. Housed in a gilt frame behind glass. With framer's sticker to verso.
MM: 58 x 42 cm including frame.
Joseph William Carey RUA (1859-1937) is an Irish painter known for his landscape and historical scenes with works sold at Whyte's into the thousands.
Previous in auction on 20.02.25 with Lot no. 67
J.W. Carey was predominantly a watercolour painter of land- and sea-scapes, but also did some illustrative work. The most prestigious commission of his career was a series of thirteen scenes from Belfast history painted on canvas for the Ulster Hall and completed in 1903. He exhibited at the RHA from 1915-35.
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