Frank McKelvey R.H.A., R.U.A. (Irish, 1895-1974)
A Sunlit Farmyard
signed 'FRANK McKELVEY' (lower left)
oil on canvas
51 x 68.5 cm. (20 x 27 in.)
Painted in 1933
signed 'FRANK McKELVEY' (lower left)
oil on canvas
51 x 68.5 cm. (20 x 27 in.)
Painted in 1933
Sold for
£18,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist by the family of the present owner
The present work depicts Kate Freeburns Cottage near Bessborough, Co. Down.
McKelvey was born in 1895 in Belfast, the son of a painter and decorator. He attended the Belfast School of Art and won the "Sir Charles Brett" prize for figure drawing there in 1912. By 1918 his work was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1921 he was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society.
He was appointed an associate of the R.H.A. in 1923, being granted full membership in 1930. During his career McKelvey was considered on a par with Paul Henry and James Humbert Craig, two of the most successful Irish landscape painters of the time. He was elected as one of the first academicians of the Ulster Academy of Arts when it was founded in 1930.
Category: Fine Art / Irish Art
Auction terms and conditions