This is Augustus Nicholas Burke

Augustus Joseph Nicholas Burke (28 July 1838 – 1891) was an performer and a fanatic of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA).

Burke was born into the Galway Burkes of Glinsk and was the sixth son of William Burke of Knocknagur, Tuam, Co. Galway. He was born at Waterslade House in the town. One of his brothers was Theobald Hubert Burke, 13th Baronet of Glinsk, while unconventional brother was Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Under Secretary at the Irish Office. He showed an early concentration in drawing, displaying a adore for depicting the people and land of Connemara. His career in the arts was initiated at the Royal Academy in London. He would exhibit at the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy, from 1863 until his death, where he was afterward Professor of Painting. From 1870 to 1872 he resided in the Netherlands where he illustrated a handful of Dutch scenes. One of the primeval Irish artists to travel to Brittany, Burke exhibited fifteen Breton scenes at the Royal Hibernian Academy with 1876 and 1878. He painted other in his native Ireland, as competently as Scotland and England. The 1880s brought Burke to Walberswick in Suffolk to an artist’s colony created by Philip Wilson Steer. A student of Burke, Walter Osborne, painted subsequent to him here.^{[citation needed]}

A grieving Augustus, overcome following grief by his brother Thomas’ murder during the Phoenix Park Murders in 1882, left his herald at the Royal Hibernian Academy where he was Professor of Painting. He moved next the surviving members of his associates first to England and subsequently to Italy.

Two of his most famous paintings, Connemara Girl and A Connemara Landscape hang at the National Gallery of Ireland. His deed is relatively rare, mainly because the contents of his studio were destroyed during the fire that engulfed the Abbey Street buildings of the RHA in 1916. Furthermore, many of the paintings lay hidden in a cellar for over ninety years until their recent discovery.^{[citation needed]}