Daniel Maclise , R.A.
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Daniel Maclise was born in Ireland and trained at the Cork Drawing Academy. In 1827 he went to London and entered the Royal Academy Schools where he received a silver medal for a drawing after the antique in 1829 and began submitting works for the Academy’s annual exhibition. Through these regular exhibition works Maclise built a practise as a history painter on a grand scale which cemented his reputation.
He also worked as an illustrator supplying eighty-one drawings of celebrated literary and political figures to Fraser’s Magazine and illustrations for Charles Dickens’ second and third ‘Christmas Books’ as well as to works by Tennyson, Milton and Thomas More amongst others. He was commissioned in 1846 to paint murals in the new House of Lords.
His work can be found in the National Gallery of Ireland, Tate, the Yale Center for British Art and many other important institutional collections.
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