Paul Henry, R.H.A. (1876-1958)

In 1929 Paul Henry and Mabel Young, who later became the artist's second wife, settled at Kilmacanogue in County Wicklow, some twenty miles south of Dublin. The following twenty-odd years that he lived there were a time of great peacefulness for Henry, and his settled mood - which contrasts with his life in the 1920s - is reflected in his work of the time. Winter Trees dates from this period and was almost certainly painted in the vicinity of Kilmacanogue. Here, the mellow Wicklow landscape contrasts with that of the rugged West of Ireland, the area with which Henry is most associated.

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