Collection: James Arthur O'Connor

Ireland's wild landscape, painted with an emotional force that still hits hard two centuries later.

James Arthur O'Connor (1792–1841) was a pioneering figure in Irish landscape painting — dramatic skies, expansive vistas, and an emotionally heightened treatment of light and atmosphere that places him at the heart of the Irish Romantic tradition. He spent years painting the west of Ireland, producing some of the most powerful landscape images ever committed to canvas by an Irish hand. Underrated internationally; deeply loved by those who know his work.

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Hanging them as a set

O’Connor was born on Aston’s Quay in Dublin in 1792 and set out for London in 1813 with Francis Danby and George Petrie. The money ran out; Petrie went home, and O’Connor and Danby walked from London to Bristol and arrived penniless. He painted the Dargle and the Wicklow glens early, and in his last decade turned to storm and moonlight. A Thunderstorm: the Frightened Wagoner (1832) and The Poachers (1835) both hang in the National Gallery of Ireland. He died in London in 1841, poor, his sight failing. The late pictures are all the same weather, and they belong on one wall.

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