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rorybbellows wrote:This one is another favorite,if you have any information I'd be grateful


RORY

Yep, my wife and kids fawn over my playing - just like in this picture . . .



NOT.

Or ye could paint the whole wall aka...

uilliam

Interesting article about Patrick O'Brien from the Clare Library:

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... briain.htm

rorybbellows wrote:Here are another couple of painting I'd like to get prints of . Photo 1 and 2 are the same painting .



RORY

It is by Samuel McCloy The Arrival of Phadrig na pib 1873

Uilliam wrote:It is by Samuel McCloy The Arrival of Phadrig na pib 1873[/b]

Thanks Uilliam ,heres a more modern painting any idea who the artist is ?


RORY

Pibcasso?

You may want to check Kenny's art gallery in Galway, they had some nice paintings and sculpture in recent years. Original work though, with the price that comes with it.

Not so many at the moment though

Here's another:

rorybbellows wrote:
This one is another favorite,if you have any information I'd be grateful


RORY

It is...Women and children listening to an uilleann piper, outside a stone cottage, by Francis William Topham RA OWS (1808-1877)
Lot No: 122

Francis William Topham RA OWS (1808-1877)

WOMEN AND CHILDREN LISTENING TO A VILLEANN sic PIPER, OUTSIDE A STONE COTTAGE

Published Estimate: €10,000-12,000
Price Realised: €13000

signed and dated [1862] lower right
watercolour heightened with white
44 by 62cm., 17.5 by 24.5in.



Born 13 April, 1808, in Leeds, Topham originally trained as an artist-engraver. He found employment from an early age in London working as a book engraver for a number of companies including George Virtue's publishing firm, for whom he engraved .

Uilliam

Patrick D'Arcy wrote:Here's another:

Last time I was in they had a few bronzes by the same artist that were pretty much modelled on the piper in the painting. Nice stuff.

rorybbellows wrote:,heres a more modern painting any idea who the artist is ?


RORY

The artist who painted the one above is Brian Valley,founder of the Armagh pipers club
I wonder if he painted this one of Felix Doran which is on the home page of the Armagh pipers club website?


RORY

Painter is Brian 'JB' Vallely and if you check your trad albums you will see he has painted many of the covers, such as Robbie Hannan's first solo and Paul Bradley's album.

When Paddy Keenan had his last album out there was an awesome painting at the WK piping concert with him in it painted by Vallely.

I love his big-fingered piper paintings. They cost quite a lot but you could try asking a starving art student to make a copy of one for you for a few quid, or give it a go yourself.

If you are determined to get an original from Vallely you could ask the artist himself if you can get a phone number-galleries will charge +50% commission on paintings so its always good to try and get in touch with the main man.

a drawing of me playing

I was playing in Regents Park in London a while back and was completely unaware of a guy doing a drawing o me.He came up left the drawing asked whit instrument it was and left me the sketch below..how kind....






Another time the Royal Portraitist Valeriy Gridnev took some sketches again in Regents Park and then got to do a sketch of me in oils playing the pipes and his wife Katya did an oil sketch too at his Studio in London

Carel and Uilliam
Can you contact me please at terry@pipers.ie
I am anxious to get more information about the two sketches shown in this thread.

Terry Moylan
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