A portrait of the artist
Frank O'Meara
This portrait of Frank O'Meara was painted by the famous Italian American portrait artist John Singer Sargent. It is an oil on canvas painting and was completed around 1876, when Frank was 24 years old. It is currently in a private collection.
© The Century Association, New YorkFrank O'Meara
© The Century Association, New York
© The Century Association, New York
Frank O'Meara
This portrait of Frank O'Meara was painted by the famous Italian American portrait artist John Singer Sargent. It is an oil on canvas painting and was completed around 1876, when Frank was 24 years old. It is currently in a private collection.
© The Century Association, New YorkFrank O'Meara is quite a tragic figure in Irish art history. However, although his career was cut short by his young death, Frank's influence on Irish art continues to grow and grow.
He was unknown by most people until the 1980s. Then, at an auction in London in 1999, one of his paintings Reverie sold to a rich English collector for a whopping £496,500!
From then on, his name was established in the Irish hall of fame and his paintings are now receiving lots of attention from collectors and experts.
Let's find out more about this interesting character...