Charles Alfred Mills, Irish, 1875-1922
Title: A Funeral Procession
Date: 1900
Medium: Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions:
21.3 x 26.8 cm
Signed: lower right: Charles A. Mills 1900
Credit Line: Presented, Mr Matthew Russell, through the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of their foundation, 2014
Object Number: NGI.2014.11
DescriptionThis composition depicts a small funeral procession moving towards a windswept, lonely graveyard on the coast. Six men carry the coffin which is followed by five mourners. The artist Charles A. Mills worked as an illustrator for a number of Irish newspapers including the Irish Independent and in the early 1900s provided illustrations for the British titles The Graphic and Fun.
ProvenancePurchased, Christie's, Dublin, December 1992, John Chambers Collection sale, lot 385; presented, Matthew Russell, through the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, to commemorate the 90th anniversary of their foundation, 2014