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        1. Daniel Maclise RA was an Irish history painter, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.
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        3. Daniel Maclise was an Irish historical painter whose fame rests chiefly on a series of lithograph portraits of contemporary celebrities and on two vast.
        4. Irish painter and caricaturist, active for almost all his career in London, where he moved in to study at the Royal Academy.

          5. Daniel Maclise

          Maclise, Daniel, R.A., a distinguished artist, was born at Cork, 25th January 1811. He exhibited artistic abilities of no common order at an early age; and after passing some time in a mercantile office, his parents yielded to his wishes to be allowed to study at the Cork Academy.

          There he benefited by the splendid series of casts from the antique, modelled under the superintendence of Canova, which form the great art treasure of Cork, and have had no little influence in fostering artistic taste in that city.

          His progress was rapid, and his first commission, illustrations to Crofton Croker'sFairy Legends, attracted considerable attention. The success of a surreptitious likeness taken of Scott during his visit to Cork in 1825, induced Maclise to open a portrait studio, where his skill and rapidity of execution brought him ready customers at thirty shillings a portrait.

          Occasional holiday rambles in search of the picturesque in different parts of Ireland, afforded