IRELAND, Archbishop John
Description:
Oil on canvas.
Exhibition:
Probably M. KNOEDLER & CO., New York, January 1895.
Bibliography:
Mail and Express, New York, Friday evening, January 11, 1895
The American University Magazine, May 1895, Vol. II, No. 1
Munsey’s Magazine, New York, July 1895
John Ireland was born in Ireland on September 11, 1838, and came to America as a boy. He was educated at the Cathedral School at St. Paul, and then studied Theology in France. In 1901 he took his doctorate in Theology at Yale, and became a priest in December 1861. He became Bishop of St. Paul on July 31, 1884 and was created Archbishop on May 15, 1888. He died on September 25, 1918. He wrote a book called The Church and Modern Society.
Bibliography:
College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, Archbishop Ireland, Two Appreciations, 1948
James Humphrey Moynihan, The Life of Archbishop John Ireland, 1953.
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The portrait is only known from a photograph in the artist’s papers. The portrait may have been a commission from James J. Hill, as Hill was charged by Knoedlers $92 for the frame in March 1895 (Receipt 560) (Hill Library).
