Philip Hussey Attributed to the Irish painter. Cork 1713 – Dublin 1783. Worked principally in Dublin. A Cork (Cloyne) Ireland self-taught painter with a haphazard career from sailor ending up up in Dublin as a portrait-painter under the patronage of the
British lord chancellor of Ireland.His chosen subjects are single portraits of which this painting is a typical example. His style is outside the academic mainstream current in both London and Dublin at the period.Socially successful, he entertained the leading Irish scholars and literati in his time, dying in
1783),