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ALOYSIUS C. O'KELLY AMERICAN/IRISH, 1853-1926 FISHING BOATS, BRITTANY Oil on canvas laid down on board Lower right signed: A. O'Kelly Catalogue note: O'Kelly was among the first Irish artists to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Gérôme and Léon Bonnat. He exhibited realist genre scenes in the Salon in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. During the turbulent years of the Irish revolutionary period, O'Kelly traveled frequently in Brittany before relocating to the United States and settling in Brooklyn, New York. He painted mostly on the East Coast, from Maine to New Jersey, exhibiting at the National Academy of Design, the Boston Art Club, Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.