Realist Artist

The realist artist Patrick Leonard HRHA was born in 1918 in County Dublin.  He studied fine art painting and figure drawing under Sean Keating and Maurice MacGonigal at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (now the National College of Art & Design). He started exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in 1941.  Such was Leonard’s talent that the academy offered him associate membership just a year later.

View ‘Sunset Scene’ within the Collection