A Cottage Garden
Walter Osbourne
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Born in Dublin, Walter Osborne entered the Royal Hibernian Academy schools in 1876, and was exhibiting his work by the following year. He won a scholarship in 1881, and went to studypainting in Antwerp at the Académie Royale. There he enrolled in Nature classes where he learned how to paint from life. His father, William, had been a successful animal painter. These dark shades of his early work gave way to a brighter palette, after his visit to Brittany in 1883. He moved to London and the south of England where he continued painting rural scenes. In 1892 he returned to Dublin to help support his family. By the time of his early death in 1903 Osborne had begun introducing Impressionist techniques into his work.
