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Hector McDonnell

Hector McDonnell (Born 1947) is active/lives in New York / Ireland, England.  Hector McDonnell is known for Realist city view painting, watercolors, etching, drawing.

Hector McDonnell (b.1947)

The Irish contemporary realist painter, watercolourist, etcher* and draughtsman* Hector McDonnell was born and brought up in County Antrim, the youngest son of the unusual Earl and Countess of Antrim.  His mother was a dedicated sculptress and cartoonist.  In 1964, Hector McDonnell traveled to Munich and then Vienna to study drawing, painting and sculpture, studying for a spell under Hans Wotruba, the famous Viennese Secessionist* sculptor.  McDonnell then studied history at Oxford University, studying life figure drawing on the side.

After graduating McDonnell decided to become a full time artist. He married, set up in a small studio in South London and started painting.

Within two years, during which time he survived by selling his pictures privately, he was given a solo exhibition at the Hamet Gallery, London.  After this, he became an exhibitor with the emiment Fischer Fine Art Gallery, London.  More solo exhib   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3092 characters.]  Artist bio

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