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Virtual Exhibits: Irish Paintings from the Collection of Brian P. Burns
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Flax Pullers Donnybrook Fair Spring in Connemara The Dublin Drawing Room Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin The White House The State Ballroom Morning Coffee and Biscuits Ar Zon Amzer Nevez more ... |
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WILLIAM
SADLER II Donnybrook Fair, c. 1839 oil on panel Collection of Brian P. Burns |
Donnybrook FairRevealing his interest in landscape and in genre painting, William Sadler II treats one of Ireland's most rabelaisian scenes. Set in open countryside near Dublin, Donnybrook Fair was an annual August celebration, repressed by the authorities in 1855. But Sadler, painting earlier in the century, captures its mixture of bacchanalian high spirits and threatened violence: men and boys wield sticks and spill their drinks; mothers feed babies; a crowd sets upon a man on horseback. A recruiting officer's tent behind the Union Jack reminds us of the imperial military presence. |
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