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Aquatintastecher, Painter, copperplate engraver, Landscape painter, Ornamentation painter, Comiczeichner, Illustrator, Aquatintaradierer, b. 1740 - d. 1807
Nathaniel Grogan (the Elder) (1740–1807) was an Irish painter from Cork. Grogan initially trained in Cork under the local painter John Butts, with Dutch painters such as Hobbema and Heemskerck as his key influences. He had begun life as an apprentice to his father, a turner and block maker, but had a love for the arts and taught himself to draw. At his fathers request, he enlisted in the British army and served in America during the War of Independence. Little, if any, is known of the paintings he produced in the New World. Grogan went on to produce numerous oil and watercolour paintings depicting landscapes and genre scenes of his native Cork. His son also became a painter, achieving some success.
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soldMay. 09, 2023NATHANIEL GROGAN (IRISH, 1740-1807)
Est: €1,500 - €2,500Figures at an inn at the entrance to Cork Harbour Oil on panel Enclosed in a decorative frame Note: Nathaniel Grogan (1740-1807) was an artist from county Cork who painted landscapes, topographical scenes and genre subjects. He worked both in oil paint and watercolours. At an early age he travelled to America and the West Indies but did not remain long and returned to Cork where he commenced a career as an artist and teacher. He enjoyed a steady demand for his paintings from the new merchants of the city and was commissioned to decorate their mansions. (See for example his work at Vernon Mount House.) Both his landscape work and his interior genre scenes were much influenced by the Dutch artists of the seventeenth-century. Grogan’s figures are particularly indebted to the work of Egbert Van Heemskerck (1634-1704). In 1796 he published a set of twelve aquatints depicting scenes in and around Cork. His work was popular in his lifetime. Works by Grogan can be seen at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. (Lot 140)
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soldApr. 17, 2019ATTRIBUTED TO NATHANIEL GROGAN (c.1740-1807)Figures Boating in a Wooded River Landscape, Sunset Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 142.5cm Provenance: The Estate of William Roth
Est: €3,000 - €5,000ATTRIBUTED TO NATHANIEL GROGAN (c.1740-1807)Figures Boating in a Wooded River Landscape, Sunset Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 142.5cm Provenance: The Estate of William Roth
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soldNov. 28, 2017NATHANIEL GROGAN (IRISH, 1740-1807)
Est: €2,500 - €3,500Figures at an inn at the entrance to Cork Harbour Oil on panel Enclosed in a decorative frame Note: Nathaniel Grogan (1740-1807) was an artist from county Cork who painted landscapes, topographical scenes and genre subjects. He worked both in oil paint and watercolours. At an early age he travelled to America and the West Indies but did not remain long and returned to Cork where he commenced a career as an artist and teacher. He enjoyed a steady demand for his paintings from the new merchants of the city and was commissioned to decorate their mansions. (See for example his work at Vernon Mount House.) Both his landscape work and his interior genre scenes were much influenced by the Dutch artists of the seventeenth-century. Grogan’s figures are particularly indebted to the work of Egbert Van Heemskerck (1634-1704). In 1796 he published a set of twelve aquatints depicting scenes in and around Cork. His work was popular in his lifetime. Works by Grogan can be seen at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
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soldOct. 13, 2014ATTRIBUTED TO NATHANIEL GROGAN (c.1740-1807)
Est: €15,000 - €20,000ATTRIBUTED TO NATHANIEL GROGAN (c.1740-1807) Figures Boating in a Wooded River Landscape, Sunset Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 142.5cm Provenance: The Estate of William Roth
Adam's
soldDec. 04, 2012Nathaniel Grogan (c 1740 - 1807) The Bantry Pact
Est: €1,500 - €2,500Nathaniel Grogan (c 1740 - 1807) The Bantry Pact (1983) Monochrome wash, 19 x 15cms (7.5 x 6'') Exhibited: ''Whipping the Herring'', The Crawford Gallery, Cork, May - August 2006 ''The Arcadian Landscapes of Nathaniel Grogan and John Butts'' Exhibition, The Crawford Gallery, Cork, 2012 ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' The AVA Gallery, June - Sept 2012, Cat. No. 15 Literature: ''Irish Rural Interiors in Art'', Claudia Kinmonth, illustrated p181 ''A Question of Attribution: The Arcadian Landscapes of Nathaniel Grogan and John Butts'' p94, full page illustration p95 ''Whipping the Herring'' The Crawford Gallery 2006, p140, full page illustration p141 ''Ireland: Her People and Landscape'' Exhibition Catalogue, full page illustration p22
Adam's
soldApr. 05, 2011Nathaniel Grogan Snr. 1740 - 1807 Bartholomew
Est: €10,000 - €15,000Nathaniel Grogan Snr. 1740 - 1807 Bartholomew O'Sullivan's Paper Manufactory, Ironworks and Foundry at Beechmount, near Dripsey, Co. Cork, " O.O.C., approx. 36" x 48" (91.5cms x 122cms), in contemporary gilt frame." * An engraved version of this picture is held at Cork Public Museum, see Literature " Bygone Industries of Blarney and Dripsey, " in Journal of The Cork Historical Archaeological Society, 1984." An extremely important contemporary record of a landmark Cork Industry, which employed up to 2500 people, in the depressed times of early 19th Century Ireland. (1)
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soldMay. 07, 2009Nathaniel Grogan (1740-1807)
Est: £1,200 - £1,800Nathaniel Grogan (1740-1807) Castle Hyde, Co. Cork pencil and watercolour heightened with gum arabic 13¾ x 21¾ in. (34.9 x 55.3 cm.)
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May. 19, 2000Nathaniel Grogan (c.1740-1807)
Est: $14,800 - $22,200A view of Bartholomew Sullivan's paper manufactory, ironworks and foundry beside the river Lee, Beechmount, near Cork, with boys on a rock in the foreground, Carrigrohane Castle beyond oil on canvas 361/2 x 49 in. (92.7 x 124.5 cm.) LITERATURE C. O'Mahoney, Bygone Industries of Blarney, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, LXXXIX, 1984, pl. 248. NOTES Nathaniel Grogan, who was born in Cork painted a number of views of the city and the surrounding countryside but is probably best known for his humourous scenes of Irish life. Bartholomew Sullivan was one of the most enterprising Irish entrepreneurs of his generation. Having been an apprentice and then a foreman at Phineas Bagnell's paper factory in Glanmire he decided to go into manufacture on his own and set up his own mills in 1784. By the turn of the century he had become the largest paper manufacturer in Ireland owning mills at Dripsey, Blarney, Towerbridge, Springhill and Beechmount, exporting much of the writing, printing, lapping and tea paper that he manufactured to England. This picture shows the iron foundry and works at Beechmount which had originally been opened by Timothy Hughes and Company at Woodside, near Healy's Bridge, early in 1788, which was taken over by Bartholomew Sullivan and Company in 1795. Sullivan's iron mill and paper mill were on opposite sides of the river and a large conduit allowed water to flow between them. By 1810 the Sullivan family, who also owned a flax spinning mill and a sailcloth manufactory, employed some two thousand people in their various industrial concerns. For further information on the industrial revolution in Cork see A. Bielenberg, Cork's Industrial Revolution 1780-1880, Cork, 1991.
Christie's- May. 16, 1996
Nathaniel Grogan (c.1740-1807) kilcrenagh on a hill at healy's
Est: -bridge near blarney on the river lee, county cork, ireland Signed l.c.: N Grogan 1792, oil on panel, in a fine contemporary carved wood frame, 54.5 by 84 cm.; 21 1/2 by 33 in. Kilcrenagh, otherwise known as Woodside, is situated at Carrigrohane to the West of Cork. It was one of the seats of the Pike family of Besborough, County Cork. The picture may have been painted for Joseph Pike who died in 1826. It was the residence of Horace Townsend between 1820 and 1860. Nathaniel Crogan was born in Cork and drew and aquatinted a set of twelve views of the neighbourhood of Cork. He also painted a panoramic view of the city of Cork, but is probably best known for his humourous satires of Irish country life. Provenance: Horace Townsend, Woodside, County Cork; Kathleen M.H.Townsend (grandaughter of the above).
Sotheby's - Nov. 18, 1992
GROGAN, NATHANIEL I (c.1740-1807)
Est: -Whipping the Herring out of Town, a scene in Cork Oil/panel 10x11 inches (25.5x29 cm).
Sotheby's - Oct. 07, 1991
GROGAN, NATHANIEL I (ATTR.) (c.1740-1807)
Est: $800 -The press gang Oil/panel 19x28 inches (48.3x70 cm).
Christies - Hamilton Osborne King
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