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Robert Richard Scanlan (1801–1876), sometimes known as R. R. Scanlan, was an Irish painter and portraitist.
A resident of Dublin in the 1820s, he exhibited portraits at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1826–1864), and was later Master of the Cork School of Design.
He painted portraits and watercolour portrait groups, described by Professor Anne Crookshank of Trinity College Dublin as ''charmingly evocative of the leisured society of Victorian Ireland''. He spent his later life in London and exhibited at the 10 Downing Street Website
Robert Richard Scanlan (1801–1876), sometimes known as R. R. Scanlan, was an Irish painter and portraitist.
A resident of Dublin in the 1820s, he exhibited portraits at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1826–1864), and was later Master of the Cork School of Design.
He painted portraits and watercolour portrait groups, described by Professor Anne Crookshank of Trinity College Dublin as ''charmingly evocative of the leisured society of Victorian Ireland''. He spent his later life in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...
(1837–1859).
Two of his best known works were portraits of Prime Ministers, Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
and the Duke of Wellington.References
*''Irish Watercolours and Drawings: Works on Paper C.1600-1914'' By Anne Crookshank, Knight of Glin. (page 331) 1801 births 1876 deaths 19th-century Irish painters Irish male painters Artists from County Cork 19th-century Irish male artists {{Ireland-painter-stub