Elliott, Robert Matthew Johnson
Elliott, Robert Matthew Johnson (1863–1910), painter and critic, was born in England. He went to sea, aged fourteen, and worked his way up from cabin boy to master's certificate. Largely self-educated, he is reputed to have slept only four hours out of twenty-four, in order to…...
Elmore, Alfred
Elmore, Alfred (1815–81), painter, was born 18 June 1815 in Clonakilty, Co. Cork, the son of Dr John Richard Elmore, a retired army surgeon and later a linen manufacturer in Clonakilty, and his wife Anne (née Callanan). In 1827 the family moved to London, where Elmore pursued an…...
Ennis, Jacob
Ennis, Jacob (1728–70), portrait and historical painter, was baptised 29 February 1728 at St Peter's church, Dublin, son of James and Margaret Ennis (his father's occupation and his mother's maiden name are both unknown). He trained as an artist under…...
Esdall, William
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Evans, Emyr Estyn
Evans, Emyr Estyn (1905–89), Ireland's first professor of geography, was born 29 May 1905, youngest of four sons and one daughter of the Rev. George Owen Evans, minister of the Presbyterian Church in Wales, and Elizabeth Evans (née Jones). Born in Shrewsbury, he spent his early…...
Exshaw, Charles
Exshaw, Charles (1715?–1771), painter, etcher, and art dealer, was born at Tymon, Co. Dublin, one of the four sons and one daughter of John Exshaw of Dublin, merchant, and his wife Thomasina (née Barry). Their eldest son, Edward (qv) (b.…...
Fallon, Conor Hubert
Fallon, Conor Hubert (1939–2007), sculptor, was born 30 January 1939 at Holles Street hospital, Dublin, the third of six sons of Padraic Fallon (qv), poet, playwright, and civil servant in customs and excise, residing at 9 Rhoda Villas,…...
Farrell, James
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Farrell, John
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Farrell, Joseph
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Farrell, Micheal
Farrell, Micheal (1940–2000), painter and print-maker, was born 3 July 1940 at Cookstown House, near Ceanannus Mór (Kells), Co. Meath, one of two sons and two daughters of James Farrell, farmer and rugby player with Bective Rangers, and Nora Farrell (née Folwell). He began his…...
Farrell, Sir Thomas
Farrell, Sir Thomas (1827–1900), sculptor, was born in Dublin, third of six sons of Terence Farrell (qv), sculptor, of Dublin, and Maria Farrell (née Ruxton). He received his earliest training as a sculptor in his father's workshop on…...
Farrell, Terence
Farrell, Terence (1798–1876), sculptor, was born at Creve, Co. Longford, where his family ran a number of stone quarries. Nothing more is known of his parents except that in 1810 he moved with his mother to Dublin, where they joined his elder brother, then working there as a stone…...
Faulkner, John
Faulkner, John (c.1830–1890), landscape and marine painter, was born in Dublin. He trained at the School of Landscape and Ornament of the Royal Dublin Society Schools (1848) and exhibited his first works, with the RHA (1853),…...
Ferguson, Vincent
Ferguson, Vincent, (1931–2007), businessman and art collector, was born in the family home in Teeling Street, Sligo town, on 21 June 1931, the son of John Ferguson, printer, and his wife Mary (née McGarry). His mother died when he was five, leaving five boys and two girls. The family…...
Fisher, Edward
Fisher, Edward (1730–p.1781), engraver, was born 18 November 1730 in Dublin, son of Charles Fisher, hatter, of Wood Quay, Dublin, and Mary Lamb. Nothing is known of his early life or training. By 1757 he was working in London. In that year four mezzotint plates by him…...
Fisher, Jonathan
Fisher, Jonathan (fl. 1763–1809), painter, was established as a linen draper in the Liberties area of Dublin where he was practising as an artist by 1763. Though Strickland says he may have received some training in London, no further evidence has come to light to support…...
Fitzgerald, John
Fitzgerald, John (1825–1910), poet, painter, antiquary, and wood-carver, was born 18 June 1825 at Hanover Street, Cork, son of John Fitzgerald and Martha Mary Deacy. He was educated at Fr Mathew's (qv) school, Blackamoor Lane, and…...
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington
Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington (1830–1925), writer, sculptor, and barrister, was born 26 April 1830 at Fane Valley, near Dundalk, Co. Louth, the younger son of Thomas Fitzgerald. His father, a pro-repeal MP for Co. Louth (1830–4), had made his fortune from properties in the West…...
Fitzgerald, Robert David
Fitzgerald, Robert David (1830–92), surveyor, botanical artist, and naturalist, was born 30 November 1830 at Tralee, Co. Kerry, the son of Robert David Fitzgerald, a banker, and his wife, Mary Ann, née Bell. After studying civil engineering at QCC…...
Flanagan, Terence Philip ('T. P.'; 'Terry')
Flanagan, Terence Philip ('T. P.'; 'Terry') (1929–2011), painter, was born 15 August 1929 at 18 The Hollow, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, the eldest among four sons and three daughters of William Flanagan and his wife Margaret (née Maguire). His father held a series of clerical jobs in…...
Foley, Edward Arlington
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Foley, John Henry
Foley, John Henry (1818–74), sculptor, was born 24 May 1818 at 6 Montgomery St., Dublin, second son and second among four children of Jesse Foley, glassblower, and Eliza Foley (née Byrne). His father later ran a grocer's shop on Mecklenburg St. His paternal step-grandfather,…...
Forbes, Ernest
Forbes, Ernest (1879–1962), cartoonist, landscape artist and portraitist, was born Ernest Forbes Holgate in Leeds on 2 July 1879, second son of Thomas Pullan Holgate, stonemason and sculptor, and Hannah Margaret Holgate (née Forbes). He changed his name by deed poll to Ernest Forbes…...
Forbes, Stanhope Alexander
Forbes, Stanhope Alexander (1857–1947), artist, was born 18 November 1857 in Dublin, the younger of two sons of William Forbes, a manager of the Midland Great Western Railway, and his wife Juliette de Guise of France. He was initially taught by a governess, Sophie Moran, who took…...