John Turpin considers a pair of aquatints purchased by the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, Ireland’s oldest arts charity
Two Robert Havell prints recording King George IV’s visit to and departure from Ireland in 1821 were based on paintings, probably watercolours, by Joseph Patrick Haverty RHA (1794–1864). In constructing these two scenes, Haverty relied on ‘original sketches taken on the spot’ by John Lushington Reilly (depicted in the middle of the second print, sketching on horseback)
John P O’Sullivan investigates painterly values and pitfalls with Donald Teskey, ahead of his mid-career survey at the RHA
