Collection: Walter Frederick Osborne

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The painter who showed Dublin as it really was — and made it beautiful for exactly that reason.

Walter Frederick Osborne (1859–1903) was, in the Dictionary of Irish Biography's phrase, Ireland's foremost resident painter of the late nineteenth century. Born in Dublin, trained in Antwerp under Charles Verlat and formed by the plein-air naturalism of Bastien-Lepage, he turned a continental technique on Irish streets and working people with quiet compassion and an exceptional sensitivity to light. He was offered a knighthood in 1900 and refused it, and was dead at forty-three.

Browse the full collection of Walter Osborne art prints — Dublin street scenes, Galway and Connemara, and his tender genre pictures — on archival 250gsm matte paper, framed or unframed, with free worldwide shipping.

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Part of our full Irish Art Prints collection — over 600 works by Ireland's greatest artists.