Dermod O'Brien (1865, in Mount Trenchard, Foynes, County Limerick – October 3, 1945, in Dublin) was an Irish painter, chiefly of landscapes and portraits.
Career
Unlike many of his Irish comtemporaries, O'Brien did not study art in Dublin, opting instead to travel to Paris, where he studied the paintings at the Louvre. In 1887, O'Brien visited galleries in Italy and then enrolled at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. At the Academy he was a fellow student of Walter Osborne. O'Brien left Antwerp in 1891 and returned to Paris, where he studied at Académie Julian. He relocated to London in 1893 and then Dublin in 1901. O'Brien was designated an associate of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1906, a member in 1907, and was later president. He was made an honorary member of the Royal Academy, London in 1912.[1]
