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Oil on canvas Painted circa 1880s 44 x 33.5 cm.(17 1/4 x 13 1/4 in) Provenance: Possibly from the collection of the late T. Bodkin (inscribed on reverse) Born in Dublin, the second son of Richard Moynan and his wife, Harriet Noble, Richard Thomas Moynan 'entered himself as a pupil in the Royal Dublin Society's School of Art, where, besides other successes, the prize for Painting in the Taylor competition in 1881 and the Cowper prize for the best drawing from life in 1882, fell to him. As a student in the Royal Hibernian Academy's School he won a silver and a bronze medal and a prize for the best study in the painting class in 1883, and in the same year carried off the Albert Scholarship for the best picture shown in the Academy by a student, with his "Last Stand of the 24th at Isandula." He had already exhibited, having contributed landscapes and figure subjects to the Academy in 1880, 1881 and 1882.' [1] Moynan studied in Antwerp in 1884, under Verlat, and following around six months here, he then travlled to study in Paris 'under Collin, Courtois, Robert-Fleury and Bouguereau,'.[2] In 1886 Moynan returned to Dublin and was to continue exhibiting paintings at the Royal Hiberninan Academy of Arts up to three years before his death in 1906. [1] Strickland, Walter G., A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 1913, pp. 143-145 [2]. Ibid