(b Milton, Co. Roscommon, 17 Oct 1860; d Nueil-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire, 18 March 1940). Irish painter and etcher. Born into a branch of the O'Conor family descended from the last kings of Ireland, he was educated at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire. He studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1879-83), before attending the Acad?mie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp (1883-4). He returned to Ireland but soon moved to Paris, where he studied with Carolus-Duran, exhibiting a portrait in the Salon of 1888. In 1889 he showed three paintings in the Salon des Ind?pendants, and he continued to exhibit there until 1908.

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