3-052-521 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. Henry O'Neil, A.R.A., 1880. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, of '...this esteemed artist, who was also a writer of considerable originality and vigour...we cannot do better than reprint the notice of him which was written by his friend, Mr. Anthony Trollope. It runs as follows: "On Saturday, March 13, died Henry O'Neil, Associate Fellow of the Royal Academy, a painter in former years of great reputation. His works almost reached the highest point of modem excellence; but it must be acknowledged that when he had reached that period in which men generally settle down to the work of their profession, he allowed his brain so to divide its efforts that the exertions which were sufficient for the one were unable to keep his name before the public in all. He was not only a painter, but a musician, and it may be doubted whether he best loved his palette or his fiddle...Latterly misfortunes came upon him, by no means from his own fault, and they who loved him grieved to think that he was doomed to suffer...He was never married, and when he is laid to rest at Kensal-green there will be buried one who was simple, just, and affectionate as a child".' From "Illustrated London News", 1880.