The Celtic Twilight

Reverie

This is another painting by O'Meara of a girl waiting by water. This is not as mournful as The Widow shown earlier, but it is still melancholic. She seems to be waiting for someone. What do you think? This is probably O'Meara's most famous painting. It sold for £496,500 at an auction in London in May 1999.

Private Collection, courtesy of Pyms Gallery, London

Reverie
Private Collection, courtesy of Pyms Gallery, London

Reverie

This is another painting by O'Meara of a girl waiting by water. This is not as mournful as The Widow shown earlier, but it is still melancholic. She seems to be waiting for someone. What do you think? This is probably O'Meara's most famous painting. It sold for £496,500 at an auction in London in May 1999.

Private Collection, courtesy of Pyms Gallery, London

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Frank O'Meara painted around two big pieces each year. It is said that his chief inspiration came from two failed romances: the first with a young American girl called Isobel Osborne and the second a British lady called Florence Lewis.

He fell for both, but both left Grez without him. These partings may have produced many of the sad feelings which drove his paintbrush.

The atmosphere O'Meara created in his paintings is silent and dreamlike and has been referred to as capturing the mood of the Celtic Twilight.