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Osborne, Walter Frederick, 1859–1903 - Art UK.
Walter Frederick Osborne (1859–1903)
GENRE ART IN IRELAND
See: Irish Genre Painters.
From Antwerp, Osborne, like fellow Irish artists Nathaniel Hill, Roderic O'Conor and Joseph Kavanagh, went to paint in Brittany, France, where he developed a naturalist style of Impressionist landscape painting, focusing on farmyards, orchards and Breton scenes.
It was here that he completed his famous Apple Gathering, which now hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland. It shows two girls in traditional Breton costume gathering apples, against a background of Quimperle roofs.
Notice its atmospheric palette of rich greens, grays and slate blues, with touches of pink and white, and the subtle shadows beneath the trees.
Walter frederick osborne biography of mahatma
After two years in Brittany, Osborne moved to England in 1884, where he continued with his plein air painting. Returning to Dublin in the early 1890's, his landscape painting and figurative scenes began to show a marked Impressionistic influence.
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