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On the Beach ~ Walter Frederick Osborne

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.

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Walter Frederick Osborne

Walter Frederick Osborne was born in Dublin in 1859, the second son of painter, William Osborne. His family lived in Dublin, and he may have spent some time in his father’s studio before attending the Royal Hibernian Academy Schools in Dublin. In 1881, he won the Taylor scholarship for £50, which enabled him to study abroad.

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

Osborne’s return to Dublin was prompted by the death of his sister, Violet, whose newly-born baby was given into the care of Osborne’s aged parents. From this period he cultivated a portrait practice and in time was very successful. While Osborne continued to paint garden scenes and interiors with children, his general manner of painting had begun 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 was offered a knighthood in recognition of his services to art and his distinction as a painter, but he refused. He died of pneumonia in 1903 at the age of forty-three.

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