About Thomas Alfred Jones
Lived 1823 – 1893 (aged 69–70). Thomas Alfred Jones was an Irish painter.
Sir Thomas Alfred Jones (c.1823–1893) was an Irish portrait and genre painter and a President of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). Active from the 1840s to the 1890s, he is known both for his society portraits and for his idealised depictions of rural Irish women, including the popular Molly Macree (National Gallery of Ireland) and Connemara Girls, rediscovered in 2016. He later enrolled at Trinity College Dublin (1842–1844), leaving without a degree. Jones continued his training on the Continent.
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Irish painter (1823-1893)
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Thomas Alfred Jones was born in 1823 in Dublin.
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Thomas Alfred Jones died on 10 May 1893 in Dublin.
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Thomas Alfred Jones was a painter.
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Thomas Alfred Jones was Irish.
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