RONALD OSSORY DUNLOP (Dublin, 1894 - 1973). "Portrait." Oil... Lot 2

RONALD OSSORY DUNLOP (Dublin, 1894 - 1973). "Portrait." Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 65 x 52 cm., 87 x 68 cm. (frame). Ronald Ossory Dunlop was an Irish author and oil painter of landscapes, seascapes, figure studies, portraits and still lifes. Dunlop was born in Dublin. He studied at Manchester School of Art , at Wimbledon College of Art and in Paris, after spending some time working in an advertising agency. He became a prolific exhibitor, at such venues as the Royal Academy , the New English Art Club , the Leicester and Redfern Galleries , the Royal Society of Arts , the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts . In 1916 he was granted exemption from military service as a conscientious objector , and worked on the ground in the General Services section of the Friends Ambulance Unit . His first solo exhibition (1928) was at the Redfern Gallery in Cork Street , London . In 1923 he had founded the Emotionist Group of writers and artists, and his own work is characterized by a painterly exuberance. He joined the London Artists' Group in 1931. Dunlop's work can be found in several public galleries, including the Tate . Most of his life was spent in England, later in Barnham, West Sussex, near Chichester. He achieved fame in his lifetime, having been elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1950, and his work is instantly recognizable. Dunlop's paintings can be seen at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, the Tate Gallery, London, the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, London.