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Artefact Art Print ~ On the Beach ~ Walter Frederick Osborne

Artefact Art Print On the Beach North County, Dublin ~ Walter Frederick Osborne is a painting full of light and atmosphere. The blues and yellows that Osborne uses conjure up the seaside. In addition, the Impressionistic style that Osborne adopts makes the painting a joyful image of the North County Dublin coast. This beautiful Art print is a wonderful Irish gift for the discerning Art lover.

All Artefact Irish Art Prints are printed on museum quality Hahnemühle cotton based paper. The paper and inks used in crafting Artefact Art Prints ensure a wonderful texture and clarity to the poster. Bespoke artwork using environmentally friendly water based inks. Beautiful imagery that promotes the excellence of Irish Art and photography. An Irish made product.

This Irish Art print measures 293 x 390 mm A3 in size. Perfect for packing in a suitcase, or sending in the post.

Artefact : an object made by human hand, of cultural interest.

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Walter Frederick Osborne

Walter Frederick Osborne was born in Dublin in 1859, the second son of painter, William Osborne. The painter attended the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools in Dublin. In 1881, he won the Taylor scholarship for £50, which enabled him to study abroad.

Arriving in Antwerp in 1881 Osborne registered as a pupil in Verlat’s ‘Natuur’ class at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts. Two years later, he travelled to Brittany where the Plein-air style of painting was widespread. Osborne left Brittany for England around 1884 and worked in several small rural communities, painting landscapes and genre scenes.

Osborne’s returns to Dublin and cultivates a portrait practice  which becomes very successful. While Osborne continued to paint garden scenes and interiors with children, his general manner of painting begins to change. Influenced by the Impressionists, and by Manet and Degas, his later palette is more adventurous his brushwork looser, and his approach more painterly. In 1900 he is offered a knighthood in recognition of his services to art and his distinction as a painter, but he refuses. He dies of pneumonia in 1903 at the age of forty-three.

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