SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
Daniel Maclise’s career brings together painting, portraiture and illustration: early in his career, he works for a bank alongside the collector and amateur sculptor George Newenham, while the literary circles into which Thomas Crofton Croker introduces him bring him commissions for illustrations. A portrait of Walter Scott made in 1825 contributes to his popularity in Cork. Arriving in London on 18 July 1827, he enters the Royal Academy as a probationary student, before being admitted as a full student on 20 April 1828. There he receives a silver medal in 1829 for his drawings of antiquities, followed by a gold medal in 1831 for The Choice of Hercules, now listed as being in a private collection.
A close associate of William Maginn, editor of Fraser’s Magazine, Maclise publishes numerous drawings of political figures and celebrities there between 1830 and 1836. He also illustrates four Christmas stories by Charles Dickens. This group of drawings is published in a volume in 1873 under the title The Maclise Portrait-Gallery. Elected a member of the Royal Academy on 10 February 1840, he declines the offer to become its president in 1865.
From 1858, he undertakes a composition at the Palace of Westminster devoted to the meeting of Wellington and Blücher at Waterloo, and then creates a work of the same dimensions on La mort de Nelson. The Earls of Ormond and Desmond, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1870, is described as his last painting.
This profile brings together identity references for Daniel Maclise and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
5 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Piguet, Schuler, Zofingen. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Oil on cardboard, formerly mounted on wood
Stehende Badende
Oel auf Karton, alt montiert auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2023-11-25
Published result : 800 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 1000
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Oil on cardboard, with an old mounting on wood
Stehende Badende
Öl auf Karton, alt montiert auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2014-12-12
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 2500–3500
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Oil on cardboard, with an old mounting on wood
Stehende Badende
Öl auf Karton, alt montiert auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2014-09-19
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 5000–8000
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Oil on canvas
Nach - After
Öl auf Leinwand
Nach
Date to be documented
After
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Ink on paper
Attribué à Daniel Maclise — Femme en prière
encre sur papier
attr. à
Catalogue period : 2016-09-26
Attributed to
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 200–300
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
