Hilly, mountainous, rural landscape, with two small cabins and figures to right of track-way in central foreground. In lower left a stone wall runs diagonally away from the viewer. Probably dated to c. 1900.
Artist: Richard Henry Albert Willis.
Born in Dingle, Co. Kerry in July 1853. He moved to Cork as a child and was apprenticed there, c. 1869, to architect Arthur Hill.
Willis attended Cork School of Art as well as the National Art Training School in South Kensington, London. Between 1882 and 1892 Willis held the post of Headmaster of Manchester School of Art. Willis exhibited at the Royal Academy London from 1882 to 1899. He died in 1905 and is buried in Rathcormac, Co. Cork.
Oil on Canvas
66 x 34.2 cm
Framed: 88 x 55.5 cm