18 facts about Henry Edward Doyle

Henry Edward Doyle CB (1827 – 17 February 1893) was an Irish painter and draughtsman, and for 23 years the director of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Doyle was the third son of John Doyle (author of the “H. B.” political sketches) and Marianne, daughter of Mr. James Conan, of Dublin. He was born in 1827, and educated as an artist. On the information of Cardinal Wiseman he was appointed Commissioner for Rome at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, and for his facilities in that gift was nominated a Knight of the Order of Pius IX.

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He was Art Superintendent of the International Exhibition of 1865, in Dublin; and honorary secretary of the National Portrait Gallery in membership with that of 1872. in the thesame city. He was elected by the Board of Governors Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, in 1869 on the death of George Francis Mulvany, R.H.A., the first holder of that office. He was next a member of the Committee of Advice for the three special exhibitions of national portraits from 1866 to 1868, and he was a fanatic of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

During his twenty-three years’ incumbency of the directorship of the Irish National Gallery, he raised that accrual from insignificance to a exceeding respectable place among the youthful galleries of Europe, and that in hostility of extreme parsimony upon the allowance of the treasury.

In 1880 he was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath. He died suddenly upon 17 February 1892.

On February 6, 1866, he married Jane Isabella Ball, daughter of the Right Hon. Nicholas Ball, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland., and the sister of John Ball at St. James’ Church, Spanish-place, London. The ceremony was performed by Jane’s brother, the Rev. Anthony Ball. His nephew was the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

12px Wikisource logo.svg This article incorporates text from a pronouncement now in the public domain: Armstrong, Walter (1901). “Doyle, Henry Edward”. Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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