Title: ‘Eugene Tangney.’
A seated man looks directly at the viewer. He holds a rifle in his right hand while his left hand rests upon his lap.
Eugene Tangney served as Head Gamekeeper on the Muckross Estate for both the Herbert and Bourn Vincent families. Aside from protecting the game from poachers, he arranged various aspects of field sport on the estate. This portrait is believed to depict Eugene Tangney c. 1940.
Artist: Seán O’Sullivan.
Born in Dublin in 1906 O’Sullivan entered the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art in 1926 where one of his teachers was Sean Keating. O’Sullivan also undertook a course in lithography at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. He met and married art student Rene Mouw in London and the pair spent their early married years studying in Paris. In the early 1930s the couple settled in Dublin where O’Sullivan was on friendly terms with many of Ireland’s best-known writers, actors, poets and painters. He was a respected Irish portrait painter and he exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy. O’Sullivan died in 1964.
Oil on Canvas
c. 101 x 91 cm
Framed: c. 115 x 104.5 cm