
Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters

All Thomas Pakenham 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z

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Painting (From A to Z)

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49419

A rebel ambush in the woods of County Wicklow,from a contemporary Print

mk197 Led by Michael Dwyer and Joseph Holt,rebels adopted guerrilla war in Wicklow,which took several years to burn itself out

49405

A reconstruction by William Sadler of the Battle of Vinegar Hill painted in about 1880

mk197 Well directed artillery gave the British regulars and Irish militia a crushing advantage

49416

Admiral Warren-s ships pounding the Brest fleet of Genceral Hardy after intercepting it off Lough Swilly

mk197 The French and their Irish allies fought with desperate courage

49379

Arthur O-Connor,Lord Edward-s ally

mk197 who left for London-Perhaps bound for France

49399

Belfast Assembly Rooms

mk197 where McCracken was tried and condemned to be hanged

49377

Charles James Fox,Leader of the Whig Opposition and Grattan-s most important ally in London

mk197 But both men had now decide that it was a waste of breath to speak in their respective Parliaments

49408

Charles James Fox,the British leader of the opposition

mk197 supposed to have corrupted his cousin.Lord Edward Fitzgerald,whose ghost haunts him in his villa near London,together with the headless bodies of the Sheares brothers and other conspirators

49396

Cruikshank-s grim picture of the scene at Scullabogue barn,Country Wexford on June 5

mk197 About 200 men,women and children,almost all Protestant,were piked or burnt to death by United Irishmen.

74992

daughter

The daughter of a wealthy landowner in Jamaica, Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton was born in 1783.

49383

Dublin Castle in the 1790s,seat fo the Viceroy and hub of Briish Power

mk197 But it was a castle only in name and quite indefensible

49384

Dublin harbour with the domed Custom House in the background

mk197 On the eve of the rebellion Dublin-s Population was estimated at 200000,making Dublin the second city of the empire

49372

Edward Cooke,under-secretary at Dublin castle

mk197 More robust thn Camden,he tended to side with Camden-s anti Catholic advisers

49392

Erin Go Brach

mk197 James Gillray-s caricature of an Irish rebel,often erroneously said to be Grattan

49413

Erin Go Bray

mk197 An English caricature drawn by Samson in 1798

49393

Father Murphy,

mk197 the United Irish leader in Wexford showing his flock what he thought of heretic bullets

49403

General John Moore

mk197 later to win fame in the Peninsular War,recaptured Wexford on 2 June

49386

General Lake

mk197 The heavy-handed English general who succeeded Abercromby as Irish commander-in-chief

49414

General Lake accepts General Humbert-s sword as a token of surrender at Ballinamuck

mk197 Less chivalrous was Lake-s treatment of France-s Irish allies capturad after the battle

49366

General Lazare Hoche the 28-year-old

mk197 Commander-in Chief of the 15000 French soldiers sent to Liberate Ireland in December 1796

49415

General Napper Tandy

mk197 Tone-s bitter rival

49370

George III,King of Britain and Ireland since 1760

mk197 Humiliated by the loss of the American colonies,he had reluctantly agreed to Pitt-s Catholics.

49376

Henry Grattan

mk197 once the darling of the Irish Parliament but now denounced as a covert United Irishman

49412

Heroic conduct of the Highland Sentinel

mk197 Cruikshank-s Picture of an act of heroism at the Battle of Castlebar

49418

His death mask in his alma mater

mk197 Trinity College,Dublin

49424

Hunted Down

mk197 By the time of the first 98 centenary the rebellion was rememb er not as a horrific civil war but as a simple story of a people-s Struggle against their oppressors

49409

In Mid-july the survivors of the Wexford and Wicklow armies tried to cut their way through to the Midlands

mk197 but 2000 rebels were repulsed by twenty-seven yeomen in a fortified post at Clonard,County Meath

49380

John Sheares,radical barrister

mk197 With his brother Henry he supposedly joined the new Executive after the arrest of most of the United Irish Leaders at Bond-s House.

49420

Joseph Holt,one of the few Protestants who fought with the rebels in Wicklow

mk197 He was later transported to Botany Bay

49388

Kildare rebels piking an old man

mk197 George Crawford,and his granddaughter,another scene from Cruikshank

49371

Lord Camdern

mk197 the Irish Viceroy,high-minded and humane,but unterly demoralized by trying to govern Ireland.

49373

Lord Castlereagh Pitt-s 28-year-old Protege and acting chief secretary

mk197 Inexperienced as he was,he had to manage the wild Irish gentry who controlled the Dublin Parliament

49374

Lord Clare

mk197 the formidable Lord Chancellor and one of the leader of the informal cabinet

49406

Lord Cornwallis,who succeeded

mk197 Lord Camden as Viceroy in mid June was determined to impose peace on Irland

49378

Lord Edward Fitzgerald

mk197 Younger brother of the great Kidare magnate,the Duke of Leinster, and first cousin of James Fox

49389

Loyalists awaiting attack by the rebels on a country house in Wicklow

mk197 A contemporary watercolour by an eye-witness,Caroline Hamilton,showing how ware is an odd mixture of terror and boredom

49398

McCracken-s United and twentieth century portrait

mk197 As commander of the United army of Antrim he was one of the few original political leaders of the movement to take part in a battle

49368

Most of the French armada sent to Bantry By Limped back in January 1797 to their bases in France

mk197 one battleship,the Droits de I-homme with 600 troops under general Humbert.was intercepted off brest by two british frigates.

49382

Napoleon Bonaparte during his victorious campaign in Italy

mk197 After Hoche-s Sudden death in 1797

49387

On 19 May,Lord Edward Fitzgerald

mk197 the reputed commander in chief of the United Irish armies,Stabbed to death Captain Ryan who was sent t arrest him and was then shot and mortally wounded by Town Major Sirr

49395

Rebels dancing the Carmagnolle in a captured house by cruikshank

mk197

49421

Robert Emmet 24-year-old brother of Thomas Addis Emmet

mk197 the United Irish leader

49397

The Battle of Arklow on 9 June,the Turning point of the Wexford rising

mk197 An army of Wexford rebels led by Father Murphy and reupted 19000 Strong,stormed the Wicklow borker town Like madmen and were Flung back with huge losses.

49400

The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798

mk197 Robinson,who lived nearby,shows the closing stages of the battle in Lord Moira-s demesne at Montalto

49410

The French are on the sea,says the Shan Van Vocht

mk197 William Sadler-s reconstruction of Humbert-s troop landing at Killala on 22 August

49375

The Irish House fo Commons addressed by Henry Grattan in 1780 during the campaign to force Britain to give Ireland free trade and legislative independ

mk197 Grattan,and many of the MPs,are wearing Volunteer uniform to show they mean business.

49381

The Port of Brest

mk197 the naval base from which the French sent their expeditions to invade Ireland.

49402

The rebels executing their prisoners on the bridge at Wexford

mk197 on 20 June, ninety-seven loyalists were piked and their bodies thrown in the river

49411

The Revolutionary army in action

mk197 A detail from a contemporary picture of Napoleon-s victory at the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798

49385

The Royal Exchange

mk197 Dublin in the 1790s the centre of fashionable life.Despite the threat of rebellion,the city was wide open to attack ,and none of the bridges had guard-posts

49407