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Sat 10 Oct 2010The great Irish painting that turned up on eBay
Lost for almost a century, John Mulvany’s ‘ The Battle of Aughrim’ re-emerged on the online auction site, put up for sale by a dealer who believed it to be an American battle scene. For NIAMH O’SULLIVAN, who had spent years searching for the painting, it was a heart-stopping moment
The Battle of Aughrimwas last seen in Denver, in the US, in 1914. In 2003 I travelled there, to try to track it down, but to no avail. Earlier this year I saw the painting on eBay, for sale as an American military painting. I knew immediately what it was. Seeing something flash before you that you have been searching for over seven years is a heart-stopping moment.
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