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AUGUSTUS NICHOLAS BURKE RHA (1838 - 1891)
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Title: Twilight, Walberswick, Suffolk (C. 1884)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed with Monogram AB RHA Lower Left
Provenance: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1884;
Matilda Segrave;
John Talbot; Thence by Family Descent;
Milmo-Penny Fine Art, Dublin (Label Verso);
Where acquired by the Present Owner
Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, 1884, No. 148;
Milmo-Penny Fine Art, Dublin, October 1992
Note: One of Walter Osborne's most notable works, 'A Tale of the Sea' was painted in the same year in Walberswick, when he was with Burke and Nathaniel Hill at the Artist's Colony there.
Framed
The artist was interested in the challenge of capturing on canvas the effects of a twilight sky, which he does here to great effect. Walberswick attracted many artists to its surrounding countryside and coastline. Burke was in Walberswick in the company of his friend and former student Walter Osborne in 1884 where they were joined by Nathaniel Hill. Among the other Irish artists to paint there were Hone, Purser, Garstin, Kavanagh and O'Kelly.
The View is along the estuary of the River Blyth looking inland from a popular location among the colony known locally as the Skate's Nose.
Dominic Milmo-Penny
Image: 29 x 59.5 cm.
Framed: 54 x 85 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 18:32:30
Biography
AUGUSTUS NICHOLAS BURKE RHA (1838 - 1891)
Born in County Galway, Augustus Nicholas Burke studied art in London and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1863. Returning to Dublin in 1869 with his sister Dorothy, he became known for landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits, and joined the Royal Hibernian Academy, becoming full member in 1871. He painted in the Netherlands and Brittany, exhibiting Breton works at the RHA (1876–78), and later served as RHA professor of painting (1879–82), mentoring artists including Walter Osborne. Following the assassination of his brother in 1882, Burke moved to London, producing works such as The Connemara Girl, and later painted in Italy due to poor health. He died in Florence in 1891.
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Title: Twilight, Walberswick, Suffolk (C. 1884)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed with Monogram AB RHA Lower Left
Provenance: Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 1884;
Matilda Segrave;
John Talbot; Thence by Family Descent;
Milmo-Penny Fine Art, Dublin (Label Verso);
Where acquired by the Present Owner
Exhibited: Royal Hibernian Academy, 1884, No. 148;
Milmo-Penny Fine Art, Dublin, October 1992
Note: One of Walter Osborne's most notable works, 'A Tale of the Sea' was painted in the same year in Walberswick, when he was with Burke and Nathaniel Hill at the Artist's Colony there.
Framed
The artist was interested in the challenge of capturing on canvas the effects of a twilight sky, which he does here to great effect. Walberswick attracted many artists to its surrounding countryside and coastline. Burke was in Walberswick in the company of his friend and former student Walter Osborne in 1884 where they were joined by Nathaniel Hill. Among the other Irish artists to paint there were Hone, Purser, Garstin, Kavanagh and O'Kelly.
The View is along the estuary of the River Blyth looking inland from a popular location among the colony known locally as the Skate's Nose.
Dominic Milmo-Penny
Image: 29 x 59.5 cm.
Framed: 54 x 85 cm. PICTURES AND PRINTS Tuesday 16th September 2025 18:32:30
Biography
AUGUSTUS NICHOLAS BURKE RHA (1838 - 1891)
Born in County Galway, Augustus Nicholas Burke studied art in London and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1863. Returning to Dublin in 1869 with his sister Dorothy, he became known for landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits, and joined the Royal Hibernian Academy, becoming full member in 1871. He painted in the Netherlands and Brittany, exhibiting Breton works at the RHA (1876–78), and later served as RHA professor of painting (1879–82), mentoring artists including Walter Osborne. Following the assassination of his brother in 1882, Burke moved to London, producing works such as The Connemara Girl, and later painted in Italy due to poor health. He died in Florence in 1891.
IMPORTANT IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 16th September
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Co. Laois
R32 FN88
Ireland
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Sheppard’s are pleased to present this auction of Important Irish Art. The sale includes major works of art by Daniel O’Neill, Willliam Ashford, Frank McKelvey, Grace Henry, Sean Keating, Sean McSweeney, James Humbert Craig, Sir William Orpen, Gerard Dillon, Augustus Burke, Harry Kernoff, Paul Sandby, John Henry Foley, Peter Curling, Graham Knuttel, Donald Teskey, Jean Dufy, John Behan, Rory Breslin, Siobhan Bulfin and many more.
