SAMUEL FREDERICK BROCAS (1792-1847) The General Post Office...

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€15,000 - €20,000

SAMUEL FREDERICK BROCAS (1792-1847) The General Post Office, Dublin Signed, inscribed and dated 1818 Pen, ink and watercolour, 36 x 57.5cm Provenance: Sale, these rooms, Dublin 4th October 2006, lot no. 43 Samuel Frederick Brocas was born about 1792 the son of Henry Brocas Snr and brother of James Henry, William and Henry Jnr, all artists. Samuel studied at the Dublin Society’s School and won numerous medals for flower paintings, etching and figure drawing. Strickland wrote that ‘’He practised in Dublin as a landscape painter, both in oils and watercolour, and his works painted broadly and good in colour possess considerable merit.’’ His best known works are views of Dublin. His series of twelve of these views were engraved by his brother Henry. He died in 120 Lower Baggot Street on 14 May 1847.