Timothy Healy – William Orpen Art Print

Timothy Healy (1908) – William Orpen

Orpen painted Timothy Healy in 1908 as part of Hugh Lane's project to build a portrait gallery of Irish notables for the new Municipal Gallery in Dublin. Orpen charged just £10 per picture — a fraction of his usual rate, which was approaching £200 — because he believed in what Lane was trying to do.

Healy was one of the most formidable figures in Irish political life. Born in Bantry in 1855, he entered Parliament in 1880, championed the rights of tenant farmers, broke with Parnell, survived every shift in Irish politics for four decades, and in 1922 became the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State. Orpen painted him fourteen years before any of that — a man in the middle of a long career, not yet at the end of it. The portrait is now in the collection of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, through the Lady Lavery Memorial Bequest.

Sir William Orpen (1878-1931), born in Stillorgan, Co Dublin, trained at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and the Slade School in London, becoming one of the most successful portrait painters of his generation. His work hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland.

Sizes & Format

• 40 × 50 cm / 16 × 20″
• Available framed (black, white, wood) or unframed

Print & Frame Details

Archival matte paper, 250gsm (110lb), acid-free and FSC-certified — off-white, uncoated. Framed prints: solid oak or ash wood frame, 20mm thick, with shatterproof protective glazing. Ready to hang, hanging kit included. Unframed prints up to A4 ship flat; larger sizes ship rolled in a protective tube.

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