Irish Modernist Oil on Canvas Painting "Young Bathers" Children on the Beach by Henry Robertson Craig Decorative Arts circa 1740

circa 1740

and arrayed in a frieze along the top of the Club's library

one rosette with the initials "MRD" the second with the date "1784"

including several Povey family members

The table top is very well carved with a landscape scene featuring both a tiger and an elephant

Irish Modernist Oil on Canvas Painting "Young Bathers" Children on the Beach by Henry Robertson Craig Decorative Arts circa 1740An important Irish Modernist oil on canvas painting by Henry Robertson Craig (1816 1984), titled "Young Bathers", circa 1960. This very beautiful painting of children seated on the beach, with other figures bathing is the sea, under a warm blue sky. The painting is very sensitively composed and is an exceptional example of one of Ireland's most respected modernist painters; Henry Robertson Craig along with his long time companion Patrick Hennessy