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Joseph Malachy Kavanagh
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Joseph Malachy Kavanagh (1856 – 17 April 1918) was an Irish painter. He is known for his painting landscapes, seascapes, rural scenes in Ireland, France and Belgium and occasional portraits. He particularly was inspired by the landscape in and around Dublin.
Kavanagh was born in Dublin. Despite being a prolific painter, his work is extremely rare. He was appointed as Keeper of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1910 and was given a studio space on the upper floor of the building at Academy House on Abbey Street. However, this prestigious post was to bring him misfortune during the Easter Rising of 1916 when Academy House was destroyed by shelling and engulfed in a fire which destroyed his studio and most of his paintings. According to Aidan Dunne, the Academy was likely hit by the Royal Navy warship HMY Helga (later in service of the new Irish Free State as the Irish patrol vessel Muirchu):
The Academy had been actively campaigning for a new building when the Easter Rising intervened. The annual exhibition was in progress. As fighting raged, the keeper, landscape painter Joseph Kavanagh, was painting one morning in Academy House when a piece of shrapnel from an exploding shell shattered a window and tore into the ceiling above him. The gunboat Helga had made its way up the Liffey and started lobbing shells into the city. Its target may have been either the GPO or Liberty Hall. Whether the Helga or artillery on the ground was responsible, a newsprint barricade on the street was ignited and the fire spread uncontrollably, engulfing Academy House. The hapless Kavanagh grabbed his chain of office, the academy charters and some other documents and ran for his life. The building was consumed by fire and with it the entire annual exhibition, the library, including all records, and Kavanagh’s life’s work – understandably, he never really recovered from the loss.
He was arrested by British troops as he left the building, and was held in the custom house for a week. After this his health declined.
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